Øivind Bratberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4096149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Øivind Bratberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Øivind |
| FAMILY NAME | Bratberg |
| SIGNATURE | BRATBERG Ø |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social Democracy in the 21st Century
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Statsvitenskapelige blindsoner: Iver Neumann i et faglig perspektiv
Iver Neumann has been an inter-disciplinary entrepreneur for political science in Norway. For Neumann, interdisciplinarity has been coupled with an understanding of politics as the search for meaning and identity. These features are well-developed in European political science, particularly within the field of international relations, but they are more rarely encountered in Norway. This brief article provides a sketch of political science as it e…
Why the Welsh Said Yes, but the Northerners No: The Role of Political Parties in Consolidating Territorial Government
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A Long Path to Divergence: English and Scottish Policies on Tuition Fees
Ideas, tradition and norm entrepreneurs: Retracing guiding principles of foreign policy in Blair and Chirac's speeches on Iraq
The significance of ideas to foreign policy analysis remains contested, despite a plethora of empirical studies applying ideational frameworks. Drawing on social constructivism, this article proposes a causal understanding where ideas derived from tradition define the political space for contemporary debates and effect foreign policy behaviour. This ideational approach is substantiated by a historical study of guiding principles in British and Fr…
Party Legacies and Institutional Gravity: The Dynamic between Members of Parliament and Assembly Members in Wales
What does the creation of sub-national legislatures entail for the work of parliamentary representatives, and by what guidelines does the cross-level relationship evolve? This article considers the issue in the context of British devolution, relating the analysis of parliamentarians to the question of how parties adapt. The empirical analysis, drawing on a series of interviews with Assembly Members (AMs) and Members of Parliament (MPs) from Labou…
The Third Man. Life at the Heart of New Labour
Multi-level Parties in Process: Scottish and Welsh MEPs and their Home Parties
Regional autonomy and European integration present national institutions with a double challenge, potentially diluting national authority from both below and above. The interaction between the two processes adds a particular dynamic, as when regions forge direct links to the EU bypassing the nation state. This article looks at three British parties from that perspective, focusing on the autonomy of party branches in Scotland and Wales in relation…
Institutional Resilience Meets Critical Junctures: (Re)allocation of Power in Three British Parties Post-devolution
How do parties react when their institutional environment is federalized or devolved? This article investigates how the three dominant British parties have responded to devolution in terms of internal reallocation of power. Party change is evaluated in the light of a functionalist and an institutionalist perspective. We find that Labour has moved incrementally away from centralism; the Conservative Party has changed more extensively towards strat…
Conceptualising the Multi-Level Party: Two Complementary Approaches
While party research has seen a number of conceptual developments in recent years, it has not kept pace with parties becoming more territorial as a result of the increasing importance of sub-national and supranational governance. This article lays down a framework for conceptualising and analysing multi-level parties (MLPs). We propose a synthesis of the formal and non-formal aspects of power; the former highlighting party rules and procedures, t…
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Bilateral Embassies in an Integrated Europe: A Case of Institutional Robustness
Bilateral diplomacy is typically portrayed as under threat by European integration, which has forged direct links between sectoral ministries, introduced an all‐embracing policy arena in Brussels and, arguably, rendered traditional embassy representation irrelevant. This article questions whether the decline thesis indeed holds sway, inspired by insights from historical institutionalism. Drawing on data from diplomatic service lists, a time‐serie…
Diplomatiets siste dager
Conceptualising the Multi-Level Party: Two Complementary Approaches
While party research has seen a number of conceptual developments in recent years, it has not kept pace with parties becoming more territorial as a result of the increasing importance of sub-national and supranational governance. This article lays down a framework for conceptualising and analysing multi-level parties (MLPs). We propose a synthesis of the formal and non-formal aspects of power; the former highlighting party rules and procedures, t…
Institutional Resilience Meets Critical Junctures: (Re)allocation of Power in Three British Parties Post-devolution
How do parties react when their institutional environment is federalized or devolved? This article investigates how the three dominant British parties have responded to devolution in terms of internal reallocation of power. Party change is evaluated in the light of a functionalist and an institutionalist perspective. We find that Labour has moved incrementally away from centralism; the Conservative Party has changed more extensively towards strat…
Bilateral Embassies in an Integrated Europe: A Case of Institutional Robustness
Bilateral diplomacy is typically portrayed as under threat by European integration, which has forged direct links between sectoral ministries, introduced an all‐embracing policy arena in Brussels and, arguably, rendered traditional embassy representation irrelevant. This article questions whether the decline thesis indeed holds sway, inspired by insights from historical institutionalism. Drawing on data from diplomatic service lists, a time‐serie…
Ideas, tradition and norm entrepreneurs: Retracing guiding principles of foreign policy in Blair and Chirac's speeches on Iraq
The significance of ideas to foreign policy analysis remains contested, despite a plethora of empirical studies applying ideational frameworks. Drawing on social constructivism, this article proposes a causal understanding where ideas derived from tradition define the political space for contemporary debates and effect foreign policy behaviour. This ideational approach is substantiated by a historical study of guiding principles in British and Fr…
A Long Path to Divergence: English and Scottish Policies on Tuition Fees
Multi-level Parties in Process: Scottish and Welsh MEPs and their Home Parties
Regional autonomy and European integration present national institutions with a double challenge, potentially diluting national authority from both below and above. The interaction between the two processes adds a particular dynamic, as when regions forge direct links to the EU bypassing the nation state. This article looks at three British parties from that perspective, focusing on the autonomy of party branches in Scotland and Wales in relation…
Party Legacies and Institutional Gravity: The Dynamic between Members of Parliament and Assembly Members in Wales
What does the creation of sub-national legislatures entail for the work of parliamentary representatives, and by what guidelines does the cross-level relationship evolve? This article considers the issue in the context of British devolution, relating the analysis of parliamentarians to the question of how parties adapt. The empirical analysis, drawing on a series of interviews with Assembly Members (AMs) and Members of Parliament (MPs) from Labou…
Diplomatiets siste dager
Bilateral Embassies in an Integrated Europe: A Case of Institutional Robustness
Bilateral diplomacy is typically portrayed as under threat by European integration, which has forged direct links between sectoral ministries, introduced an all‐embracing policy arena in Brussels and, arguably, rendered traditional embassy representation irrelevant. This article questions whether the decline thesis indeed holds sway, inspired by insights from historical institutionalism. Drawing on data from diplomatic service lists, a time‐serie…
Bokessay: Europas halvbror
The Third Man. Life at the Heart of New Labour
Multi-level Parties in Process: Scottish and Welsh MEPs and their Home Parties
Regional autonomy and European integration present national institutions with a double challenge, potentially diluting national authority from both below and above. The interaction between the two processes adds a particular dynamic, as when regions forge direct links to the EU bypassing the nation state. This article looks at three British parties from that perspective, focusing on the autonomy of party branches in Scotland and Wales in relation…
Institutional Resilience Meets Critical Junctures: (Re)allocation of Power in Three British Parties Post-devolution
How do parties react when their institutional environment is federalized or devolved? This article investigates how the three dominant British parties have responded to devolution in terms of internal reallocation of power. Party change is evaluated in the light of a functionalist and an institutionalist perspective. We find that Labour has moved incrementally away from centralism; the Conservative Party has changed more extensively towards strat…
Conceptualising the Multi-Level Party: Two Complementary Approaches
While party research has seen a number of conceptual developments in recent years, it has not kept pace with parties becoming more territorial as a result of the increasing importance of sub-national and supranational governance. This article lays down a framework for conceptualising and analysing multi-level parties (MLPs). We propose a synthesis of the formal and non-formal aspects of power; the former highlighting party rules and procedures, t…
A Long Path to Divergence: English and Scottish Policies on Tuition Fees
Ideas, tradition and norm entrepreneurs: Retracing guiding principles of foreign policy in Blair and Chirac's speeches on Iraq
The significance of ideas to foreign policy analysis remains contested, despite a plethora of empirical studies applying ideational frameworks. Drawing on social constructivism, this article proposes a causal understanding where ideas derived from tradition define the political space for contemporary debates and effect foreign policy behaviour. This ideational approach is substantiated by a historical study of guiding principles in British and Fr…
Party Legacies and Institutional Gravity: The Dynamic between Members of Parliament and Assembly Members in Wales
What does the creation of sub-national legislatures entail for the work of parliamentary representatives, and by what guidelines does the cross-level relationship evolve? This article considers the issue in the context of British devolution, relating the analysis of parliamentarians to the question of how parties adapt. The empirical analysis, drawing on a series of interviews with Assembly Members (AMs) and Members of Parliament (MPs) from Labou…
The Nordic Model of Social Democracy
Social Democracy has long been prominent in Nordic politics through the dominant parties and ideological hegemony of the centre-left. This book explores the growth of social democracy and the policy d
Why the Welsh Said Yes, but the Northerners No: The Role of Political Parties in Consolidating Territorial Government
This article focuses on the role played by the Labour Party in two devolution referendums, in Wales in 1997 and in the North-East region in 2004. Comparing the positive vote of the Welsh and the negative vote of the North shows how the governing party – the Labour Party which has also been historically dominant in each of these regions – contributed to the contrasting outcome. Our argument is that dominant parties impact both in their formal (str…
Statsvitenskapelige blindsoner: Iver Neumann i et faglig perspektiv
Iver Neumann has been an inter-disciplinary entrepreneur for political science in Norway. For Neumann, interdisciplinarity has been coupled with an understanding of politics as the search for meaning and identity. These features are well-developed in European political science, particularly within the field of international relations, but they are more rarely encountered in Norway. This brief article provides a sketch of political science as it e…
Social Democracy in the 21st Century
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Political science (14 works) · Politics (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Political Systems and Governance (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works)