Research Interests

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
forthcoming. (with Bernt Aardal and Ingunn Opheim Ellis). ‘Institutional Variation and Political Support: An Analysis of CSES Data from 29 Countries’, accepted for publication in a volume edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2006.(with Matt Carlson). ‘Public Opinion on the Role of Religion in Political Leadership: A Multi-level Analysis of Sixty-three Countries’, Japanese Journal of Political Science 7(3): 251-271.

2006. (with Zan Strabac).’Podsrska demokraciji i snaga gradanskih stavova: Hrvatska u usporedbi sa stabilnim i novim demokracijama’ in Sabrina Ramet and Davorka Matiã (eds.): Demokratska tranzicija u Hrvatskoj [also scheduled for publication in English].

2006.(with Kristen Ringdal). ‘Slovenian Values in a European Context’, in Sabrina Ramet and Danica Fink-Hafner (eds.): Democratic Transition in Slovenia: Value Transformation, Education, and Media. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

2006. ‘Political Disaffection and Political Performance: Norway 1957-2001’, in Mariano Torcal and José Ramón Montero: Political Disaffection in Contemporary Democracies. London: Routledge.

2005. ‘Oil Wealth Dissatisfaction and Political Trust in Norway: A Resource Curse?’, West European Politics 28 (4): 934-851.

2005. (with Christopher J. Anderson, André Blais, Shaun Bowler, and Todd Donovan). Losers’ Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press [also scheduled for publication in Italian].

2005. ‘Retrospective Voting’, in Jacques Thomassen, ed., The European Voter. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2004 (with Stuart Elaine Macdonald and George Rabinowitz). ‘Bush vs. Gore: Policy Issues in the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election’, Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning 45 (2): 185-213.

2004. (with Kristen Ringdal). ‘Civic Morality in Stable, New, and Half-hearted Democracies’, in Wil Arts and Loek Halman (eds.), European Values at the Turn of the Millennium, Leiden: Brill..

RECENT PAPERS
(with Maria Elena Sandovici). Ethnic Minorities and Political Participation, paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31- September 3, 2006.

(with Kristen Ringdal) Trust in Political Institutions, paper prepared for the meeting of the European Social Survey Nordic Research Group, Copenhagen, February 16-17, 2006

(with Matt Carlson): ‘The Clash of Religion and Politics? A Multi-level Analysis of 63 Countries’, paper prepared for the conference Navigating Globalization: Stability, Fluidity, and Friction, Trondheim, August 4-6, 2005.

(with Albert Simkus and Kristen Ringdal): Disaggregating Public Opinion Toward Ethnic Conflict in Macedonia, paper presented at the conference on Disaggregating the Study of Civil War and Transnational Violence, University of California, San Diego, March 7-8, 2005.

(with Matt Carlson): Human Rights and Political Repression: A Cross-Country Analysis, paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, March 1.-5, 2005 and at the Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 7-10, 2005.

(with Zan Strabac): Patterns of Ethnic Intolerance in Europe, paper prepared for the Fifth Pan-European Conference on International Relations, The Hague, September 9-11, 2004.

(with Zan Strabac): Support of Democracy and Strength of Civic Attitudes: Croatia Compared with New and Old Democracies, paper prepared for the Conference on Democratic Transition in Croatia: Value Transformation, Education, Media, Trondheim, September 3-4, 2004.

A Mild Resource Curse: The Impact of Oil Wealth Dissatisfactions on Political Trust in Norway, paper prepared for the Conference of the World Values Survey Association, Collegium Budapest/ Central European University, Budapest, September 2-5, 2004.

(with Stuart Elaine Macdonald and George Rabinowitz): Simulating Models of Issure Voting, paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April15-18, 2004.

(with Stuart Elaine Macdonald and George Rabinowitz): Issue Voting in a Responsible Party System, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003.

Winning and Losing in Cross-National Perspective, paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, April 2-6, 2003.

Confidence in Government Institutions and Strength of Civic Morality in Europe: A Comparison of Trends in New and Old Democracies 1981-1999, paper presented at the workshop on Integration and Fragmentation: European Values at the Turn of the Millennium, Tilburg University, March 26-27, 2003.

(with Lars Grønflaten) Trends in Political Involvement and Activism in Norway, paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Edinburgh, March 28 - April 2, 2003.

A review and proposal for a comparative study of political trust, paper presented at the conference on Measuring the Emotional Economy of Europe, Brussels, June 2-3, 2003.

(with Bernt Aardal): Support of Democracy in Europe, paper presented at the conference on Democracy in the New Europe, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine, February 13.-16, 2003.