Kristen Ringdal
Biographic Data
| ID | 215699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Ringdal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen |
| FAMILY NAME | Ringdal |
| SIGNATURE | RINGDAL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Socio-political Overview of Post-socialist Southeastern Europe Today
According to Freedom House, those southeast European states which have joined the European Union are "free" while the rest are "partly free. " For ordinary citizens, the most important issues are corruption, unemployment, and poverty. There is an approximate correlation between Freedom House's assessments of democratic attainment and local perceptions of corruption: the more corrupt the country, the less democratic it is likely to be. The media a…
Collected Essays
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The Aftermath of War: Experiences and Social Attitudes in the Western Balkans
The Future of the Welfare State: Social Policy Attitudes and Social Capital in Europe
Microfoundations of Civil Conflict Reconciliation: Ethnicity and Context
Comparative work on reconstruction and peace building in war-torn countries is dominated by a macro-oriented approach, focusing on structural political reforms, legal issues, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of (rebel) soldiers, and repatriation of the displaced. This article offers a different perspective, examining micro-level determinants of reconciliation. Earlier research indicates that political attitudes in post–ethnic conflic…
Does Religiosity Protect Against War-Related Distress? Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim of this article is to test two hypotheses on the relationship between religiosity and war-related distress in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is based on a representative survey (n = 3,313) in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 2003–2004. The questionnaire included 15 items on war-related distress and 13 items on war experiences. From these items we developed a war-related distress scale, a war experiences scale, and several measures of re…
Social Dimensions of Party Choice in Albania
The main purpose of this article is to examine whether the concepts of "class voting" and political cleavages used in studies of western democracies are of relevance in post-communist Albania. The analysis of voting behavior, based on a representative survey conducted in late 2003, resulted in only weak correlations between voting and socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, and education. A weak tendency for class voting was evident, but…
Was There a Decline in Ethnic Polarization in Macedonia Between 2003 and 2005? Results from a National Panel Analysis
Article Was There a Decline in Ethnic Polarization in Macedonia Between 2003 and 2005? Results from a National Panel Analysis was published on January 1, 2010 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 58, issue 1)
Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: A multilevel analysis
The aim of this study was to determine the degree to which welfare state regime characteristics explained the proportional variation of self-perceived health between European countries, when individual and regional variation was accounted for, by undertaking a multilevel analysis of the European Social Survey (2002 and 2004). A total of 65,065 individuals, from 218 regions and 21 countries, aged 25 years and above were included in the analysis. T…
Individual and Contextual Influences of War on Ethnic Prejudice in Croatia
This article examines what the determinants of ethnic prejudice in Croatia were in the aftermath of the 1991–1995 war. The analysis is based on a nationwide survey (N = 2,202) conducted in March and April 1996, less than a year after the cessation of war activities in Croatia. The main focus of our analysis is on how war influences the ethnic prejudice of individuals. The influences of individual war-related experiences and the effects of regiona…
Bokanmeldelser
Disaggregating Public Opinion on the Ethnic Conflict in Macedonia
This article presents a multilevel analysis of the variation in Macedonian public opinion on two key issues: (1) perceptions of the causes of the conflict during 2001; and (2) support for the rapid implementation of the Ohrid agreement, which was a vital part of the end of hostilities. This analysis disaggregates the differences among Macedonians on these issues on the basis of a three-level model where the municipalities constitute the highest l…
National embeddedness and calculative human resource management in US subsidiaries in Europe and Australia
This article presents a study of the degree to which national institutional settings impact on the application of management practices in foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies. Applying the national business systems approach our study centres on the use of calculative human resource management (HRM) practices by subsidiaries of US multinational companies in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark/Norway and Australia, respectively, in compari…
Social Mobility in Norway 1973–95
This chapter, based on four surveys covering the period from 1973 to 1995, focuses on changes in the Norwegian class structure, and on trends in absolute as well as in relative social mobility. The access to rewarded positions in Norway has become easier for all due to the expansion of the service class in the period studied. The pervasive sex segregation in work does, however, show few signs of weakening: women are still concentrated in the lowe…
A follow-up study of the quality of life in cancer patients with different prognoses
Changes in Class Voting in Norway, 1957–1989
Despite their reputation as the home of a highly developed form of class politics, the first of two Scandinavian case studies examines trends in relative class voting in Norwegian Storting elections from 1957 to 1988 and shows that there was a decline in levels of class voting in the 1960s. Ironically, perhaps, the reason for this change would appear to be the political success of class politics, in which universalistic welfare provision legislat…
Assessing the consistency of psychometric properties of the HRQoL scales within the EORTC QLQ-C30 across populations by means of the Mokken Scaling Model
Patterns in Class Voting in Norway 1957-1989: Decline or 'Trendless Fluctuations
The purpose of this article is to study patterns of relative class voting in Norwegian Storting (parliament) elections in the period 1957 to 1989 as they appear in the Norwegian Election Studies. The study is based on seven social classes simulating the Erikson and Goldthorpe class schema. To represent the Norwegian multi-party system, three different aggregations into two-, three- and four-party groups are used, although the final analysis is co…
Log-Linear Models in Comparative Research: A Paradigm Lost
Major research questions in the field of social stratification and mobility deal with similarities and differences in the patterns of social mobility in space and time. Answers are typically given by means of regression or log-linear models. Kelley (1990) argues for the superiority of the former in detecting differences in bivariate correlations between two populations, and characterizes log-linear modelling of social mobility tables for contextu…
Quality of life of cancer patients with different prognoses
Intergenerational Class Mobility in Post-War Norway: A Weakening of Vertical Barriers
Journal Article Intergenerational Class Mobility in Post-War Norway: A Weakening of Vertical Barriers? Get access KRISTEN RINGDAL KRISTEN RINGDAL Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of TrondheimAVH, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway Tel: 47-73-59-1710; Fax: 47-73-59-1564. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 10, Issue 3, Decemb…
Testing the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire on cancer patients with heterogeneous diagnoses
Migration and Status Attainment Among Norwegian Men
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between geographical and social mobility by examming the marginal contnbutions of migration to occupational status and income. The analysis is based on a sample of more than 22,000 Norwegian men aged 30 to 36 years in 1980 taken from the Norwegian Census Sample, a public-use sample from the 1960, 1970, and the 1980 censuses. Variables representing distance of migr…
Recent Developments in Methods for Multilevel Analysis
This article is a non-technical review of recent contributions to multilevel analysis. After a short historical introduction, a general linear model for multilevel analysis is presented. The model consists of two sets of regression equations, one for the individual (micro) level and one for the group (macro) level. In the latter, the micro coefficients are seen as dependent variables. During the 1980s several computer programs were developed to p…
Status Attainment in Urban and Rural Labour Markets
The article reports on a study of status attainment in urban and rural labour markets. The model includes the following variables: occupational status of father, mental ability, education, occupational status, and income. The data were collected from a cohort study of Norwegian males The main results document that a status attainment model of the Wisconsin type gives different results for groups that have had their life courses in an urban as com…
Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: A multilevel analysis
The aim of this study was to determine the degree to which welfare state regime characteristics explained the proportional variation of self-perceived health between European countries, when individual and regional variation was accounted for, by undertaking a multilevel analysis of the European Social Survey (2002 and 2004). A total of 65,065 individuals, from 218 regions and 21 countries, aged 25 years and above were included in the analysis. T…
Microfoundations of Civil Conflict Reconciliation: Ethnicity and Context
Comparative work on reconstruction and peace building in war-torn countries is dominated by a macro-oriented approach, focusing on structural political reforms, legal issues, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of (rebel) soldiers, and repatriation of the displaced. This article offers a different perspective, examining micro-level determinants of reconciliation. Earlier research indicates that political attitudes in post–ethnic conflic…
Individual and Contextual Influences of War on Ethnic Prejudice in Croatia
This article examines what the determinants of ethnic prejudice in Croatia were in the aftermath of the 1991–1995 war. The analysis is based on a nationwide survey (N = 2,202) conducted in March and April 1996, less than a year after the cessation of war activities in Croatia. The main focus of our analysis is on how war influences the ethnic prejudice of individuals. The influences of individual war-related experiences and the effects of regiona…
National embeddedness and calculative human resource management in US subsidiaries in Europe and Australia
This article presents a study of the degree to which national institutional settings impact on the application of management practices in foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies. Applying the national business systems approach our study centres on the use of calculative human resource management (HRM) practices by subsidiaries of US multinational companies in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark/Norway and Australia, respectively, in compari…
Patterns in Class Voting in Norway 1957-1989: Decline or 'Trendless Fluctuations
The purpose of this article is to study patterns of relative class voting in Norwegian Storting (parliament) elections in the period 1957 to 1989 as they appear in the Norwegian Election Studies. The study is based on seven social classes simulating the Erikson and Goldthorpe class schema. To represent the Norwegian multi-party system, three different aggregations into two-, three- and four-party groups are used, although the final analysis is co…
Recent Developments in Methods for Multilevel Analysis
This article is a non-technical review of recent contributions to multilevel analysis. After a short historical introduction, a general linear model for multilevel analysis is presented. The model consists of two sets of regression equations, one for the individual (micro) level and one for the group (macro) level. In the latter, the micro coefficients are seen as dependent variables. During the 1980s several computer programs were developed to p…
Does Religiosity Protect Against War-Related Distress? Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim of this article is to test two hypotheses on the relationship between religiosity and war-related distress in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is based on a representative survey (n = 3,313) in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 2003–2004. The questionnaire included 15 items on war-related distress and 13 items on war experiences. From these items we developed a war-related distress scale, a war experiences scale, and several measures of re…
Disaggregating Public Opinion on the Ethnic Conflict in Macedonia
This article presents a multilevel analysis of the variation in Macedonian public opinion on two key issues: (1) perceptions of the causes of the conflict during 2001; and (2) support for the rapid implementation of the Ohrid agreement, which was a vital part of the end of hostilities. This analysis disaggregates the differences among Macedonians on these issues on the basis of a three-level model where the municipalities constitute the highest l…
Intergenerational Class Mobility in Post-War Norway: A Weakening of Vertical Barriers
Journal Article Intergenerational Class Mobility in Post-War Norway: A Weakening of Vertical Barriers? Get access KRISTEN RINGDAL KRISTEN RINGDAL Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of TrondheimAVH, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway Tel: 47-73-59-1710; Fax: 47-73-59-1564. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 10, Issue 3, Decemb…
Migration and Status Attainment Among Norwegian Men
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between geographical and social mobility by examming the marginal contnbutions of migration to occupational status and income. The analysis is based on a sample of more than 22,000 Norwegian men aged 30 to 36 years in 1980 taken from the Norwegian Census Sample, a public-use sample from the 1960, 1970, and the 1980 censuses. Variables representing distance of migr…
The Common Market Issue in Norway: A Conflict between Center and Periphery
Status Attainment in Urban and Rural Labour Markets
The article reports on a study of status attainment in urban and rural labour markets. The model includes the following variables: occupational status of father, mental ability, education, occupational status, and income. The data were collected from a cohort study of Norwegian males The main results document that a status attainment model of the Wisconsin type gives different results for groups that have had their life courses in an urban as com…
The Common Market Issue in Norway: A Conflict between Center and Periphery
Status Attainment in Urban and Rural Labour Markets
The article reports on a study of status attainment in urban and rural labour markets. The model includes the following variables: occupational status of father, mental ability, education, occupational status, and income. The data were collected from a cohort study of Norwegian males The main results document that a status attainment model of the Wisconsin type gives different results for groups that have had their life courses in an urban as com…
Recent Developments in Methods for Multilevel Analysis
This article is a non-technical review of recent contributions to multilevel analysis. After a short historical introduction, a general linear model for multilevel analysis is presented. The model consists of two sets of regression equations, one for the individual (micro) level and one for the group (macro) level. In the latter, the micro coefficients are seen as dependent variables. During the 1980s several computer programs were developed to p…
Testing the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire on cancer patients with heterogeneous diagnoses
Migration and Status Attainment Among Norwegian Men
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our understanding of the relationship between geographical and social mobility by examming the marginal contnbutions of migration to occupational status and income. The analysis is based on a sample of more than 22,000 Norwegian men aged 30 to 36 years in 1980 taken from the Norwegian Census Sample, a public-use sample from the 1960, 1970, and the 1980 censuses. Variables representing distance of migr…
Quality of life of cancer patients with different prognoses
Intergenerational Class Mobility in Post-War Norway: A Weakening of Vertical Barriers
Journal Article Intergenerational Class Mobility in Post-War Norway: A Weakening of Vertical Barriers? Get access KRISTEN RINGDAL KRISTEN RINGDAL Department of Sociology and Political Science, University of TrondheimAVH, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway Tel: 47-73-59-1710; Fax: 47-73-59-1564. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar European Sociological Review, Volume 10, Issue 3, Decemb…
Patterns in Class Voting in Norway 1957-1989: Decline or 'Trendless Fluctuations
The purpose of this article is to study patterns of relative class voting in Norwegian Storting (parliament) elections in the period 1957 to 1989 as they appear in the Norwegian Election Studies. The study is based on seven social classes simulating the Erikson and Goldthorpe class schema. To represent the Norwegian multi-party system, three different aggregations into two-, three- and four-party groups are used, although the final analysis is co…
Log-Linear Models in Comparative Research: A Paradigm Lost
Major research questions in the field of social stratification and mobility deal with similarities and differences in the patterns of social mobility in space and time. Answers are typically given by means of regression or log-linear models. Kelley (1990) argues for the superiority of the former in detecting differences in bivariate correlations between two populations, and characterizes log-linear modelling of social mobility tables for contextu…
Changes in Class Voting in Norway, 1957–1989
Despite their reputation as the home of a highly developed form of class politics, the first of two Scandinavian case studies examines trends in relative class voting in Norwegian Storting elections from 1957 to 1988 and shows that there was a decline in levels of class voting in the 1960s. Ironically, perhaps, the reason for this change would appear to be the political success of class politics, in which universalistic welfare provision legislat…
Assessing the consistency of psychometric properties of the HRQoL scales within the EORTC QLQ-C30 across populations by means of the Mokken Scaling Model
A follow-up study of the quality of life in cancer patients with different prognoses
Social Mobility in Norway 1973–95
This chapter, based on four surveys covering the period from 1973 to 1995, focuses on changes in the Norwegian class structure, and on trends in absolute as well as in relative social mobility. The access to rewarded positions in Norway has become easier for all due to the expansion of the service class in the period studied. The pervasive sex segregation in work does, however, show few signs of weakening: women are still concentrated in the lowe…
National embeddedness and calculative human resource management in US subsidiaries in Europe and Australia
This article presents a study of the degree to which national institutional settings impact on the application of management practices in foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies. Applying the national business systems approach our study centres on the use of calculative human resource management (HRM) practices by subsidiaries of US multinational companies in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Denmark/Norway and Australia, respectively, in compari…
Bokanmeldelser
Disaggregating Public Opinion on the Ethnic Conflict in Macedonia
This article presents a multilevel analysis of the variation in Macedonian public opinion on two key issues: (1) perceptions of the causes of the conflict during 2001; and (2) support for the rapid implementation of the Ohrid agreement, which was a vital part of the end of hostilities. This analysis disaggregates the differences among Macedonians on these issues on the basis of a three-level model where the municipalities constitute the highest l…
Welfare state regimes and differences in self-perceived health in Europe: A multilevel analysis
The aim of this study was to determine the degree to which welfare state regime characteristics explained the proportional variation of self-perceived health between European countries, when individual and regional variation was accounted for, by undertaking a multilevel analysis of the European Social Survey (2002 and 2004). A total of 65,065 individuals, from 218 regions and 21 countries, aged 25 years and above were included in the analysis. T…
Individual and Contextual Influences of War on Ethnic Prejudice in Croatia
This article examines what the determinants of ethnic prejudice in Croatia were in the aftermath of the 1991–1995 war. The analysis is based on a nationwide survey (N = 2,202) conducted in March and April 1996, less than a year after the cessation of war activities in Croatia. The main focus of our analysis is on how war influences the ethnic prejudice of individuals. The influences of individual war-related experiences and the effects of regiona…
Does Religiosity Protect Against War-Related Distress? Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
The aim of this article is to test two hypotheses on the relationship between religiosity and war-related distress in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article is based on a representative survey (n = 3,313) in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 2003–2004. The questionnaire included 15 items on war-related distress and 13 items on war experiences. From these items we developed a war-related distress scale, a war experiences scale, and several measures of re…
Social Dimensions of Party Choice in Albania
The main purpose of this article is to examine whether the concepts of "class voting" and political cleavages used in studies of western democracies are of relevance in post-communist Albania. The analysis of voting behavior, based on a representative survey conducted in late 2003, resulted in only weak correlations between voting and socio-demographic variables such as gender, age, and education. A weak tendency for class voting was evident, but…
Was There a Decline in Ethnic Polarization in Macedonia Between 2003 and 2005? Results from a National Panel Analysis
Article Was There a Decline in Ethnic Polarization in Macedonia Between 2003 and 2005? Results from a National Panel Analysis was published on January 1, 2010 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 58, issue 1)
Microfoundations of Civil Conflict Reconciliation: Ethnicity and Context
Comparative work on reconstruction and peace building in war-torn countries is dominated by a macro-oriented approach, focusing on structural political reforms, legal issues, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of (rebel) soldiers, and repatriation of the displaced. This article offers a different perspective, examining micro-level determinants of reconciliation. Earlier research indicates that political attitudes in post–ethnic conflic…
The Future of the Welfare State: Social Policy Attitudes and Social Capital in Europe
The Aftermath of War: Experiences and Social Attitudes in the Western Balkans
Collected Essays
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Demography (6 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (6 works) · Medicine (6 works)