127 projects

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The consensus paradox: Does agreement impede rational public discourse?

The project aimed to examine a paradox in theories of deliberative democracy: We will make better collective decisions by having people who disagree and represent a variety of opinions deliberate publicly with one another, with the aim to reach an agreement approximating a rational consensus. Yet...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Mobile Lifestyles: Perspectives on Work Mobilities and Gender in the High North

Mobile men and women comprise a considerable component of the work force. While much literature and debates exist on theories of migration, their relevance, merits and challenges, work mobilities of a more circular and temporal nature: long and short-distance commuting, seasonal migration, and wo...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Eurasian Borderlands: Transforming Religious, Ethnic and Socio-Economic Relationships

This project studies changing and emerging borders in the decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The existing scholarship on borders borderlands and often take the border as a given, and studies social life in borderlands. In this project we ask: how do territorial borders come in...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Socioeconomic significance of developmental projects in Northwest Russia: the INsiders' POINT of View

Background: This project was conceived in the context of an expected launching of large-scale extractive activities, focused on the Shtokman natural gas field. Dynamic: The shelving of Shtokman made us, among other effects, to turn to the transport infrastructural sector,including major reconstru...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - Faith-based actors in international conflict resolution

Recent decades have witnessed an increased political and academic interest in the peace-making potential of religion, as a response to the well-established links between religion and conflict. This interest has generated important knowledge on the potential of local religious leaders to create a ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - Nominal rigidities in prices of goods and services in the case of Norway 4. år hovedprosjekt - tilleggsstipend

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Succession Law: Challenges and Potential regarding regulating the Transfer of Property on Death in changing Society

The project aimed inter alia to illuminate features of societal development that might or ought to have consequences for succession law, typically in terms of how selected rules ought to be. In this report not only rules founded on new legislation/statute law are considered as new rules, but also...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2020

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - The functioning of the EEA-agreement, challenges for the EFTA-countries and for the EU, the choice or the compromise...

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Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

EUI - Comparing tax policy change in Scandinavia: welfare capitalism reformed? Utenlandsstipend

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Why not epistocracy? Political legitimacy and the 'fact of expertise' - EPISTO

The EPISTO team consisted of senior researcher/project leader Cathrine Holst, post doc John Moodie and PhD fellow Silje Tørnblad, in addition to research assistants. A central question for the project has been how to combine democratic procedures with the demands for knowledge based politics with...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Flows and Practices: The Politics of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in Africa

For the past two decades, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources. It is the flagship project of global bodies such as the Global Water Partnership (GWP). It has also been actively promoted by a range of multilateral and bilateral donors whic...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Akershus

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Management control in emerging network organizations: case of the petroleum supply industry in the Barents Region

The overall purpose of this research was to study how management control practices develop in the context of emerging industrial networks. Organizing businesses through networks has become a recognized tendency in the modern world. The networks are interesting because their operational spaces are...

Awarded: NOK 0.87 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Simulation based tools for linking knowledge with action to improve and maintain food security in Africa

According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, about 800 million people were undernourished in 2015. The percentage of undernourished people is highest in sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, sub-Saharan Africa is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Maize i...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Joint Land Certification and Household Land Allocation: - Towards Empowerment or Marginalization?

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Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Akershus

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Den 20. nasjonale fagkonferansen i statsvitenskap 2012

Prosjektet omfatter planlegging og gjennomføring av Den 20. nasjonale fagkonferansen i statsviten-skap i regi av Institutt for sosiologi og statsvitenskap (ISS), Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) i Trondheim 4.-6. januar 2012. Konferan sen finner sted på Rica Nidelven Hotell i...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Det 34. norske forskermøte for økonomer 2012 ved Universitetet for miljø- og biovitenskap, Ås

Forskermøtet 2012 skal avholdes på UMB på Ås 3.- 4. januar. Forskermøtet 2012 skal ha følgende plenumsforedrag: 1. Bengt Kriström*: Dynamic CBA and Hydropower investments (preliminær tittel) 2. Erwin Bulte**: Behavioral Economics and Economic Developmen t (preliminær tittel) 3.Om Nobelprisen 20...

Awarded: NOK 69,639

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Akershus

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Impact of Social Media on Agenda-Setting in Election Campaigns: Cross-Media and Cross-National Comparisons.

The project has studied how social media impact on election campaigns in Norway and internationally. Key research questions was the extent to which social media contribute to a more inclusive and public debate, the extent to which social media is taking over parts of the traditional media's agend...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Nordic Family Policy and Demographic Consequences

To what extent do gender equal family policy increase fertility? Nordic family policies aim to promote a gender equal division of childcare and economic responsibility. It has been argued that generous family policy aiming at a gender equal division of childcare and economic responsibility will ...

Awarded: NOK 8.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Effective Non-Violence? Resistance Strategies and Political Outcomes

This project examines the origins and consequences of non-violent direct action, and collects new data on claims and tactics in conflict processes. We here summarize key achievements during the reporting period. Dahl et al. (2016) provides a simple general formal model of when non-state actor...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Are reductions in environmental burdens of industrial organic contaminants in rich countries achieved partly by export of toxic waste?

The key hypothesis behind this project is a potential global scale transition of major source regions of industrial organic contaminants associated with electrical and electronic products; From former regions of production and use, towards regions implicated as recipients of obsolete products and...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2018

Location: Akershus

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

EGPA konferanse Bergen 2012

Formålet med dette prosjektet er å arrangere den 34. årlige konferansen for European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) i Bergen 3-7 september 2012. Her møtes omlag 400 akademikere og en del sentrale embetsmenn fra de fleste europeiske landene i 17 per manente studiegrupper for å diskutere omt...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Ethnography of a Divided City: Socio-Politics, Poverty and Gender in Maputo, Mozambique

With a focus on the capital city of Maputo in Mozambique, the project will produce new and empirically supported knowledge in terms of key urban dynamics, including the way urban poverty is spatialised, gendered, politicised, experienced, contested and coped with. During the current reporting per...

Awarded: NOK 5.5 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2015

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Political Institutions and Armed Conflict

If armed conflict is the problem, is democracy the solution? This project seeks to reassess the role of democratic political institutions with respect to their ability to prevent internal armed conflict. Armed conflict and political violence does not only lead to devastating direct violence, but ...

Awarded: NOK 8.8 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

ERC- Eriksen Gender and Pentecostal Christianity

The Gender and Pentecostalism project takes as its point of departure the paradox that Pentecostal movements often have an egalitarian form (for instance in the sense that salvation is for everyone)on the one hand, but often reproduce gendered inequalities on the other (for instance that men ofte...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

NMLs 15. medieforskerkonferanse 2012

Arrangementet inngår i Norsk medieforskerlags nasjonale forskningskonferanser som arrangeres annethvert år, alternerende med nordiske medieforskerkonferanser. Norsk medieforskerlag har bedt medieforskere ved Universitetet i Agder og Mediehøgskolen Gimleko llen om å ta ansvar for konferansen i Kri...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Agder

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Norsk sosiologforenings nasjonale fagseminar 2012: Sosiologiske vinterleker - Sosiologiske blikk på idrett og samfunn

I 2012 retter vi søkelyset mot idrettens rolle i samfunnet. På seminarets første dag er temaet idrettsorganisering med tittelen: Folkebevegelse - butikk eller sunnhetsdirektorat? Den andre dagen er temaet idrett som integrasjon med tittelen: For folk, Gud eller fedreland? Begge dagene vil bestå ...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Experimental markets with search frictions and network externalities

The project address small experimental markets with information frictions, coordination frictions, network effects, and bargaining. In small markets participants cannot take the environment as given, but needs to behave strategically towards others. In one part of the project we explore sma...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2017

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Extended confiscation as a criminal law phenomenon - increased functionality or an unjustified deviation from traditional principles?

This project constitutes an analysis of the purpose of extended criminal confiscation and civil confiscation, which in this context are referred to as extended appropriation, as well as their legitimatization within the criminal justice system. Extended appropriation differs from regular confisca...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2016

Location: Vestland

FRISAM-Fri prosjektstøtte samfunnsvitenskap

Moral and democratic education - Building ethical schools and teaching practices

Målet er å arrangere det forskarsymposiet som Special interest group 13 'Moral and Democratic Education' (Sig 13) i European Association for Learning and Instruction (EARLI) har kvart andre år; dvs. 18-21 juni 2012 på NLA Høgskolen. Dessutan å legge til r ette for publisering, samt å styrke forsk...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2012-2012

Location: Vestland

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Social Conditions of Freedom in Contemporary Modernity

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Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove