Hilmar Mjelde
Biographic Data
| ID | 4244618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilmar Mjelde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilmar |
| FAMILY NAME | Mjelde |
| SIGNATURE | MJELDE H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8084-0875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
“Mixing the Green and the Grey”
This article fills a gap in existing transport and strategic communication literature by examining the role of public communication as a core component in the design and implementation of large-scale policy packages for urban transport-system development. Using a case-study approach focused on the three Norwegian medium-sized urban regions of Grenland, Haugesund, and Sandefjord, and a multi-method approach combining document analysis and intervie…
The Local Party Branch and the Council Party Group
The relationship between the local party branch organisation and local councillors has been left largely unexplored in the party literature. We explore how this relationship varies within the case of Norway – a multi‐party system with large variation in municipal size. Based on a survey of leaders of municipal party branches and local lists, as well as qualitative interviews with branch and list leaders, we analyse the causes of variation regardi…
The Trumpization of the Grand Old Party
Background The purposes of this article are to (1) detail the extent to which the Republican Party personalized in the period from Donald Trump's first becoming a presidential candidate through 2022 and the process by which it occurred, (2) suggest plausible explanatory factors, and (3) speculate as to possible consequences. Methods The authors employ this special issue's common conceptual framework and glean evidence from a broad accumulation of…
Personalization and de‐institutionalization
Though parties serving as “personalist vehicles” have been known to exist for some time in less well-established democracies, they are certainly less commonplace in well-institutionalized democracies where parties are normally expected to make decisions by routinized, democratic procedures and maintain substantial value in their own right. And yet, even highly institutionalized parties in such settings may fall prey to personalistic tendencies.1 …
Importing a new outgroup? Foreign right-wing alternative media coverage of Black Lives Matter
This explorative study analyses the Norwegian right-wing alternative media outlet Resett ’s extensive coverage of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the United States – not a traditional enemy of the European far right. It discusses and suggests explanations of the puzzling phenomenon of an ideological and media actor in a very different part of the world becoming politically invested in an internal American conflict. This research finds th…
Lokaldemokratiets deltakere
Lokale lister utgjør en viktig del av partisystemet i en del kommuner, men har dårligere rammebetingelser enn partier fordi de i praksis ikke kan registrere seg som partier. Lokale partilag og lokale lister gjør mye av det samme arbeidet i lokaldemokratiet, men har også hver sine unike fortrinn. I denne artikkelen kartlegger vi hva partilag og lister gjør, og stiller spørsmål ved grunnlaget for forskjellsbehandlingen av lokale lister og partier
The Immigration Issue and the vox Populi
Letters to the editor are argued to be a staple of the public sphere and, by providing regular citizens with a platform to voice their concerns to a large audience, a central democratic function of a liberal press. However, the actual weight given by the press to citizens’ deliberation on issues and the contribution of these letters in terms of content is still little researched, and historical and comparative studies are largely absent. In this …
Welcoming bad times
Existing literature tends to analyse the long-term evolution of the far right’s world-view rather than how it responds to short-term events. This exploratory study, however, analyses how the far right in Norway framed the unprecedented global crisis of COVID-19. The data encompasses 149 Facebook posts, online op-eds, columns, letters to the editor and YouTube videos about COVID-19 published between 1 January and 31 May 2020 by two radical-right p…
Towards A Model of How Populist Leaders Disappear from the Media
Research shows that the media have been one decisive factor in the rise of the most high-profile populist leaders across Western democracies, but also that media attention can begin to dip when populists become established actors. However, the circumstances under which a populist leader can experience loss of media interest in him or her have not been theorized. Therefore, this article makes a contribution towards filling this gap. I offer an exp…
The Six Roles of the Anti-Immigration Parties in Scandinavian Immigration Press Debate 1970–2016
This article analyzes through qualitative content analysis what role the populist radical right parties have had in Scandinavian immigration debate in the press from 1970 to 2016. The press may highlight other dimensions of these parties’ relationship with the immigration issue than party programs and statements. I identify six distinct roles the parties have performed in the debate: the radical traditionalist, the deviant, the extremist, the pow…
Peter Kivisto's The Trump Phenomenon
clear that a vision of the future free of the oppressive conditions of white supremacy and settler colonialism was something some Indian people were invested in thinking about. This is a clear statement on race in the United States, which Andersson (like other scholars of the ghost dance) seems to overlook
Increasingly Controversial, Cultural, and Political
Jan Fredrik Hovden & Hilmar Mjelde*Jan Fredrik Hovden is Professor of media studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway. Email: Hilmar Mjelde (corresponding author) is post doctor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway
The 2015 Norwegian Local Elections
Two years into the first term of the right wing Conservative/Progress Party coalition government, the 2015 Norwegian local elections displayed many features of a 'second-order' election: the governing parties lost considerable support, minor parties did well and voter turnout was low. For the second local elections in a row, political circumstances prevented the far right Progress Party from mobilizing on the anti-immigration issue, adding to the…
Non-Member Participation in Political Parties
Non-member participants have become an increasingly important resource that helps modern parties sustain a representational bond between citizens and the state. However, the emerging literature on non-member participation still lacks a theoretical–analytical framework for the analysis of non-member participation that allows for both the study of individual parties and comparative studies of non-member participation. Only with such a framework at …
How and Why Parties Respond to Membership Decline
A dominant assumption in the existing literature on party organisation in Western Europe holds that parties acquiesce in membership decline because modern campaigning is capital- rather than labour-intensive. This article studies eight reform attempts, from 1989 to 2011, by two paradigmatic member- ship parties, the German SPD and CDU. The examined party documents show that the two parties still value and seek mass membership. Indeed, most of the…
Increasingly Controversial, Cultural, and Political
Jan Fredrik Hovden & Hilmar Mjelde*Jan Fredrik Hovden is Professor of media studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway. Email: Hilmar Mjelde (corresponding author) is post doctor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway
The 2015 Norwegian Local Elections
Two years into the first term of the right wing Conservative/Progress Party coalition government, the 2015 Norwegian local elections displayed many features of a 'second-order' election: the governing parties lost considerable support, minor parties did well and voter turnout was low. For the second local elections in a row, political circumstances prevented the far right Progress Party from mobilizing on the anti-immigration issue, adding to the…
How and Why Parties Respond to Membership Decline
A dominant assumption in the existing literature on party organisation in Western Europe holds that parties acquiesce in membership decline because modern campaigning is capital- rather than labour-intensive. This article studies eight reform attempts, from 1989 to 2011, by two paradigmatic member- ship parties, the German SPD and CDU. The examined party documents show that the two parties still value and seek mass membership. Indeed, most of the…
Non-Member Participation in Political Parties
Non-member participants have become an increasingly important resource that helps modern parties sustain a representational bond between citizens and the state. However, the emerging literature on non-member participation still lacks a theoretical–analytical framework for the analysis of non-member participation that allows for both the study of individual parties and comparative studies of non-member participation. Only with such a framework at …
The Trumpization of the Grand Old Party
Background The purposes of this article are to (1) detail the extent to which the Republican Party personalized in the period from Donald Trump's first becoming a presidential candidate through 2022 and the process by which it occurred, (2) suggest plausible explanatory factors, and (3) speculate as to possible consequences. Methods The authors employ this special issue's common conceptual framework and glean evidence from a broad accumulation of…
The Local Party Branch and the Council Party Group
The relationship between the local party branch organisation and local councillors has been left largely unexplored in the party literature. We explore how this relationship varies within the case of Norway – a multi‐party system with large variation in municipal size. Based on a survey of leaders of municipal party branches and local lists, as well as qualitative interviews with branch and list leaders, we analyse the causes of variation regardi…
Personalization and de‐institutionalization
Though parties serving as “personalist vehicles” have been known to exist for some time in less well-established democracies, they are certainly less commonplace in well-institutionalized democracies where parties are normally expected to make decisions by routinized, democratic procedures and maintain substantial value in their own right. And yet, even highly institutionalized parties in such settings may fall prey to personalistic tendencies.1 …
How and Why Parties Respond to Membership Decline
A dominant assumption in the existing literature on party organisation in Western Europe holds that parties acquiesce in membership decline because modern campaigning is capital- rather than labour-intensive. This article studies eight reform attempts, from 1989 to 2011, by two paradigmatic member- ship parties, the German SPD and CDU. The examined party documents show that the two parties still value and seek mass membership. Indeed, most of the…
The 2015 Norwegian Local Elections
Two years into the first term of the right wing Conservative/Progress Party coalition government, the 2015 Norwegian local elections displayed many features of a 'second-order' election: the governing parties lost considerable support, minor parties did well and voter turnout was low. For the second local elections in a row, political circumstances prevented the far right Progress Party from mobilizing on the anti-immigration issue, adding to the…
Non-Member Participation in Political Parties
Non-member participants have become an increasingly important resource that helps modern parties sustain a representational bond between citizens and the state. However, the emerging literature on non-member participation still lacks a theoretical–analytical framework for the analysis of non-member participation that allows for both the study of individual parties and comparative studies of non-member participation. Only with such a framework at …
Peter Kivisto's The Trump Phenomenon
clear that a vision of the future free of the oppressive conditions of white supremacy and settler colonialism was something some Indian people were invested in thinking about. This is a clear statement on race in the United States, which Andersson (like other scholars of the ghost dance) seems to overlook
Increasingly Controversial, Cultural, and Political
Jan Fredrik Hovden & Hilmar Mjelde*Jan Fredrik Hovden is Professor of media studies in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway. Email: Hilmar Mjelde (corresponding author) is post doctor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, Bergen University, Norway
The Six Roles of the Anti-Immigration Parties in Scandinavian Immigration Press Debate 1970–2016
This article analyzes through qualitative content analysis what role the populist radical right parties have had in Scandinavian immigration debate in the press from 1970 to 2016. The press may highlight other dimensions of these parties’ relationship with the immigration issue than party programs and statements. I identify six distinct roles the parties have performed in the debate: the radical traditionalist, the deviant, the extremist, the pow…
Welcoming bad times
Existing literature tends to analyse the long-term evolution of the far right’s world-view rather than how it responds to short-term events. This exploratory study, however, analyses how the far right in Norway framed the unprecedented global crisis of COVID-19. The data encompasses 149 Facebook posts, online op-eds, columns, letters to the editor and YouTube videos about COVID-19 published between 1 January and 31 May 2020 by two radical-right p…
Towards A Model of How Populist Leaders Disappear from the Media
Research shows that the media have been one decisive factor in the rise of the most high-profile populist leaders across Western democracies, but also that media attention can begin to dip when populists become established actors. However, the circumstances under which a populist leader can experience loss of media interest in him or her have not been theorized. Therefore, this article makes a contribution towards filling this gap. I offer an exp…
The Immigration Issue and the vox Populi
Letters to the editor are argued to be a staple of the public sphere and, by providing regular citizens with a platform to voice their concerns to a large audience, a central democratic function of a liberal press. However, the actual weight given by the press to citizens’ deliberation on issues and the contribution of these letters in terms of content is still little researched, and historical and comparative studies are largely absent. In this …
Importing a new outgroup? Foreign right-wing alternative media coverage of Black Lives Matter
This explorative study analyses the Norwegian right-wing alternative media outlet Resett ’s extensive coverage of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in the United States – not a traditional enemy of the European far right. It discusses and suggests explanations of the puzzling phenomenon of an ideological and media actor in a very different part of the world becoming politically invested in an internal American conflict. This research finds th…
Lokaldemokratiets deltakere
Lokale lister utgjør en viktig del av partisystemet i en del kommuner, men har dårligere rammebetingelser enn partier fordi de i praksis ikke kan registrere seg som partier. Lokale partilag og lokale lister gjør mye av det samme arbeidet i lokaldemokratiet, men har også hver sine unike fortrinn. I denne artikkelen kartlegger vi hva partilag og lister gjør, og stiller spørsmål ved grunnlaget for forskjellsbehandlingen av lokale lister og partier
The Trumpization of the Grand Old Party
Background The purposes of this article are to (1) detail the extent to which the Republican Party personalized in the period from Donald Trump's first becoming a presidential candidate through 2022 and the process by which it occurred, (2) suggest plausible explanatory factors, and (3) speculate as to possible consequences. Methods The authors employ this special issue's common conceptual framework and glean evidence from a broad accumulation of…
Personalization and de‐institutionalization
Though parties serving as “personalist vehicles” have been known to exist for some time in less well-established democracies, they are certainly less commonplace in well-institutionalized democracies where parties are normally expected to make decisions by routinized, democratic procedures and maintain substantial value in their own right. And yet, even highly institutionalized parties in such settings may fall prey to personalistic tendencies.1 …
“Mixing the Green and the Grey”
This article fills a gap in existing transport and strategic communication literature by examining the role of public communication as a core component in the design and implementation of large-scale policy packages for urban transport-system development. Using a case-study approach focused on the three Norwegian medium-sized urban regions of Grenland, Haugesund, and Sandefjord, and a multi-method approach combining document analysis and intervie…
The Local Party Branch and the Council Party Group
The relationship between the local party branch organisation and local councillors has been left largely unexplored in the party literature. We explore how this relationship varies within the case of Norway – a multi‐party system with large variation in municipal size. Based on a survey of leaders of municipal party branches and local lists, as well as qualitative interviews with branch and list leaders, we analyse the causes of variation regardi…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Immigration (5 works)