Gunnar Grendstad
Biographic Data
| ID | 296965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunnar Grendstad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunnar |
| FAMILY NAME | Grendstad |
| SIGNATURE | GRENDSTAD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2914-8856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Supreme Court Justices’ Economic Behaviour: A Multilevel Model Analysis
Supreme Court justices are overlooked, but important, national policy‐making players who render final and consequential decisions in cases on economic conflicts. The research question asks what forces explain the decisional behaviour of Supreme Court justices in economic rights cases between a private and a public party. Theoretically, the decisional behaviour of an individual justice is a function of his or her notion as to what makes ‘good’ law…
The Formation and Transformation of Preferences: Cultural Theory and postmaterialism compared
Cultural Theory as Political Science
This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party
Environmentalism between state and local community: Why Greenpeace has failed in Norway
Although Norway is often seen as an environmental forerunner with an extensive voluntary sector, the internationally successful environmental organisation Greenpeace has never managed to establish a viable organisation there. The explanation for this lies in a Norwegian political culture that includes two distinct culturally embedded anomalies that configure a specific type of environmentalism. The first anomaly is Norway's state-friendly society…
The Contemporary Presidency: And We Will Know Their Greatness by the Trail of Controversy: Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and Their Increasingly Contested Successors
Presidential scholars hypothesize that presidential contestedness increases among recent presidents only because of unfinished research or within historical eras because of growing governing problems. Applying unused data from studies of scholarly assessments of presidential performance, this analysis disconfirms the recency hypothesis and confirms the era hypothesis. Presidential contestedness increases after each of the least contested presiden…
Causal Complexity and Party Preference
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) overlaps logistic regression in explaining events, but challenges the latter's lack of accounting for causal complexity. QCA has only to a limited degree been applied to large‐N studies or individuals as cases and has not incorporated the logic of probability. QCA and logistic regression are compared with respect to logic, procedure and outcome. Political orientations from five national surveys are adapted t…
Unique Environmentalism: A Comparative Perspective
This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of an inclusive and state friendly society and a strong orientation and commitment to local communities make the case stand apart from mainstream international definitions of environmentalism. The authors study a specific political culture with a rather unique combination of state structure and civil society of which organized env…
Cultural Theory as Political Science
Reconsidering Nordic Party Space1
The erosion of the social and economic bases underlying traditional party systems has led analysts to search for new cleavage structures undergirding the present party systems. Meanwhile, analysts have identified a range of issue dimensions that also bear on voters’ party preferences. This article studies the degree to which grid‐group theory's four political biases of hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism, and fatalism can make inroads into t…
Comparing political orientations: Grid‐group theory versus the left‐right dimension in the five Nordic countries
The left‐right dimension and grid‐group theory differ in their empirical track records and the complexity of their conceptual structures. As regards the former, the left‐right dimension is the clear winner. With respect to the latter, grid‐group theory comes out ahead. The parsimony of the unidimensional left‐right dimension may result in a conflation of, or failure to account for, important political distinctions which grid‐group theory accounts…
Socio-Demographic Effects on Cultural Biases: A Nordic Study of Grid-Group Theory
Grid-group theory claims that patterns of social relations only, and not socio-demographic characteristics, can account for biases, of which the theory prescribes four: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. Survey analysts conventionally employ respondents' socio-demographic correlates when accounting for values. We take the value survey strategy and apply it to grid-group theory's four biases. Employing a 1999 survey administere…
Nordic cultural baselines: Accounting for domestic convergence and foreign policy divergence
The five Nordic countries converged remarkably when developing domestic institutions, but they diverged significantly when developing foreign policies. Grid‐group theory prescribes four contending cultures—hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism, and fatalism—and offers a basis for understanding the structure of political coalitions and conflicts. Surveys from the five Nordic countries measuring cultural baselines are used to estimate the degree…
Grid‐Group Theory and Political Orientations: Effects of Cultural Biases in Norway in the 1990s
A number of cultural theories identify, or call for the elaboration of, deeper cultural patterns that both disallow cultural invariance and constrain cultural variation. Grid‐group theory identifies four cultures: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. This article, which measures grid‐group theory’s four cultures by means of cultural biases, (1) explores the neglected relationship between sociodemographic correlates and cultural …
A political cultural map of Europe. A survey approach
The new ecological paradigm scale: Examination and scale analysis
Party Followership and Leadership in Norway: A Political Culture Approach
This article measures the relative sizes of the four cultural followerships of individualism, fatalism, hierarchy and egalitarianism among the Norwegian political parties by means of the European Values Systems Study surveys conducted in 1982 and 1990. First, this analysis shows that among the electorate at the end of the 1980s, the cultures of individualism and egalitarianism have grown stronger at the expense of fatalism and hierarchy. These es…
Cultural Theory and the New Institutionalism
In addressing concepts like rationality, functionalism and preference formation, various branches of the new institutionalism are `united by little but a common scepticism towards atomistic accounts of social processes and a common conviction that institutional arrangements and social processes matter'. Great bulks of neoinstitutional thinking are also found within cultural theory which as yet have hardly been acknowledged by the neoinstitutional…
Comparing political orientations: Grid‐group theory versus the left‐right dimension in the five Nordic countries
The left‐right dimension and grid‐group theory differ in their empirical track records and the complexity of their conceptual structures. As regards the former, the left‐right dimension is the clear winner. With respect to the latter, grid‐group theory comes out ahead. The parsimony of the unidimensional left‐right dimension may result in a conflation of, or failure to account for, important political distinctions which grid‐group theory accounts…
A political cultural map of Europe. A survey approach
Cultural Theory and the New Institutionalism
In addressing concepts like rationality, functionalism and preference formation, various branches of the new institutionalism are `united by little but a common scepticism towards atomistic accounts of social processes and a common conviction that institutional arrangements and social processes matter'. Great bulks of neoinstitutional thinking are also found within cultural theory which as yet have hardly been acknowledged by the neoinstitutional…
Reconsidering Nordic Party Space1
The erosion of the social and economic bases underlying traditional party systems has led analysts to search for new cleavage structures undergirding the present party systems. Meanwhile, analysts have identified a range of issue dimensions that also bear on voters’ party preferences. This article studies the degree to which grid‐group theory's four political biases of hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism, and fatalism can make inroads into t…
Party Followership and Leadership in Norway: A Political Culture Approach
This article measures the relative sizes of the four cultural followerships of individualism, fatalism, hierarchy and egalitarianism among the Norwegian political parties by means of the European Values Systems Study surveys conducted in 1982 and 1990. First, this analysis shows that among the electorate at the end of the 1980s, the cultures of individualism and egalitarianism have grown stronger at the expense of fatalism and hierarchy. These es…
Grid‐Group Theory and Political Orientations: Effects of Cultural Biases in Norway in the 1990s
A number of cultural theories identify, or call for the elaboration of, deeper cultural patterns that both disallow cultural invariance and constrain cultural variation. Grid‐group theory identifies four cultures: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. This article, which measures grid‐group theory’s four cultures by means of cultural biases, (1) explores the neglected relationship between sociodemographic correlates and cultural …
Nordic cultural baselines: Accounting for domestic convergence and foreign policy divergence
The five Nordic countries converged remarkably when developing domestic institutions, but they diverged significantly when developing foreign policies. Grid‐group theory prescribes four contending cultures—hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism, and fatalism—and offers a basis for understanding the structure of political coalitions and conflicts. Surveys from the five Nordic countries measuring cultural baselines are used to estimate the degree…
Supreme Court Justices’ Economic Behaviour: A Multilevel Model Analysis
Supreme Court justices are overlooked, but important, national policy‐making players who render final and consequential decisions in cases on economic conflicts. The research question asks what forces explain the decisional behaviour of Supreme Court justices in economic rights cases between a private and a public party. Theoretically, the decisional behaviour of an individual justice is a function of his or her notion as to what makes ‘good’ law…
Causal Complexity and Party Preference
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) overlaps logistic regression in explaining events, but challenges the latter's lack of accounting for causal complexity. QCA has only to a limited degree been applied to large‐N studies or individuals as cases and has not incorporated the logic of probability. QCA and logistic regression are compared with respect to logic, procedure and outcome. Political orientations from five national surveys are adapted t…
Socio-Demographic Effects on Cultural Biases: A Nordic Study of Grid-Group Theory
Grid-group theory claims that patterns of social relations only, and not socio-demographic characteristics, can account for biases, of which the theory prescribes four: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. Survey analysts conventionally employ respondents' socio-demographic correlates when accounting for values. We take the value survey strategy and apply it to grid-group theory's four biases. Employing a 1999 survey administere…
Environmentalism between state and local community: Why Greenpeace has failed in Norway
Although Norway is often seen as an environmental forerunner with an extensive voluntary sector, the internationally successful environmental organisation Greenpeace has never managed to establish a viable organisation there. The explanation for this lies in a Norwegian political culture that includes two distinct culturally embedded anomalies that configure a specific type of environmentalism. The first anomaly is Norway's state-friendly society…
The new ecological paradigm scale: Examination and scale analysis
Party Followership and Leadership in Norway: A Political Culture Approach
This article measures the relative sizes of the four cultural followerships of individualism, fatalism, hierarchy and egalitarianism among the Norwegian political parties by means of the European Values Systems Study surveys conducted in 1982 and 1990. First, this analysis shows that among the electorate at the end of the 1980s, the cultures of individualism and egalitarianism have grown stronger at the expense of fatalism and hierarchy. These es…
Cultural Theory and the New Institutionalism
In addressing concepts like rationality, functionalism and preference formation, various branches of the new institutionalism are `united by little but a common scepticism towards atomistic accounts of social processes and a common conviction that institutional arrangements and social processes matter'. Great bulks of neoinstitutional thinking are also found within cultural theory which as yet have hardly been acknowledged by the neoinstitutional…
A political cultural map of Europe. A survey approach
The new ecological paradigm scale: Examination and scale analysis
Grid‐Group Theory and Political Orientations: Effects of Cultural Biases in Norway in the 1990s
A number of cultural theories identify, or call for the elaboration of, deeper cultural patterns that both disallow cultural invariance and constrain cultural variation. Grid‐group theory identifies four cultures: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. This article, which measures grid‐group theory’s four cultures by means of cultural biases, (1) explores the neglected relationship between sociodemographic correlates and cultural …
Nordic cultural baselines: Accounting for domestic convergence and foreign policy divergence
The five Nordic countries converged remarkably when developing domestic institutions, but they diverged significantly when developing foreign policies. Grid‐group theory prescribes four contending cultures—hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism, and fatalism—and offers a basis for understanding the structure of political coalitions and conflicts. Surveys from the five Nordic countries measuring cultural baselines are used to estimate the degree…
Cultural Theory as Political Science
Reconsidering Nordic Party Space1
The erosion of the social and economic bases underlying traditional party systems has led analysts to search for new cleavage structures undergirding the present party systems. Meanwhile, analysts have identified a range of issue dimensions that also bear on voters’ party preferences. This article studies the degree to which grid‐group theory's four political biases of hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism, and fatalism can make inroads into t…
Comparing political orientations: Grid‐group theory versus the left‐right dimension in the five Nordic countries
The left‐right dimension and grid‐group theory differ in their empirical track records and the complexity of their conceptual structures. As regards the former, the left‐right dimension is the clear winner. With respect to the latter, grid‐group theory comes out ahead. The parsimony of the unidimensional left‐right dimension may result in a conflation of, or failure to account for, important political distinctions which grid‐group theory accounts…
Socio-Demographic Effects on Cultural Biases: A Nordic Study of Grid-Group Theory
Grid-group theory claims that patterns of social relations only, and not socio-demographic characteristics, can account for biases, of which the theory prescribes four: hierarchy, egalitarianism, individualism and fatalism. Survey analysts conventionally employ respondents' socio-demographic correlates when accounting for values. We take the value survey strategy and apply it to grid-group theory's four biases. Employing a 1999 survey administere…
Unique Environmentalism: A Comparative Perspective
This book explains and demonstrates how the Norwegian case of environmentalism is unique. The two connected anomalies of an inclusive and state friendly society and a strong orientation and commitment to local communities make the case stand apart from mainstream international definitions of environmentalism. The authors study a specific political culture with a rather unique combination of state structure and civil society of which organized env…
Causal Complexity and Party Preference
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) overlaps logistic regression in explaining events, but challenges the latter's lack of accounting for causal complexity. QCA has only to a limited degree been applied to large‐N studies or individuals as cases and has not incorporated the logic of probability. QCA and logistic regression are compared with respect to logic, procedure and outcome. Political orientations from five national surveys are adapted t…
The Contemporary Presidency: And We Will Know Their Greatness by the Trail of Controversy: Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt and Their Increasingly Contested Successors
Presidential scholars hypothesize that presidential contestedness increases among recent presidents only because of unfinished research or within historical eras because of growing governing problems. Applying unused data from studies of scholarly assessments of presidential performance, this analysis disconfirms the recency hypothesis and confirms the era hypothesis. Presidential contestedness increases after each of the least contested presiden…
Environmentalism between state and local community: Why Greenpeace has failed in Norway
Although Norway is often seen as an environmental forerunner with an extensive voluntary sector, the internationally successful environmental organisation Greenpeace has never managed to establish a viable organisation there. The explanation for this lies in a Norwegian political culture that includes two distinct culturally embedded anomalies that configure a specific type of environmentalism. The first anomaly is Norway's state-friendly society…
The Formation and Transformation of Preferences: Cultural Theory and postmaterialism compared
Cultural Theory as Political Science
This is the first major European political science book to discuss the growing interdisciplinary field of 'cultural theory', proposing a coherent and viable alternative to mainstream political science. The authors argue that three elements - social relations, cultural bias and behavioural strategy - illuminate political questions at a level of analysis on any scale: from the household to the state; the international regime to the political party
Supreme Court Justices’ Economic Behaviour: A Multilevel Model Analysis
Supreme Court justices are overlooked, but important, national policy‐making players who render final and consequential decisions in cases on economic conflicts. The research question asks what forces explain the decisional behaviour of Supreme Court justices in economic rights cases between a private and a public party. Theoretically, the decisional behaviour of an individual justice is a function of his or her notion as to what makes ‘good’ law…
Political science (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Egalitarianism (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Individualism (7 works) · Positive economics (7 works)