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Newspaper Op-Ed | 2009
Problemet er systemet
The Problem is the System (English version)
Valgkrisen i Afghanistan var bisarre til det siste. President Hamaid Karzai – utskjelt som korrupt leder og valgfusker i stort format – ble utropt til...
Dagbladet 05.11.2009

CMI Report | 2009
Statistical evidence on social and economic exclusion in Nepal
The discourse on social exclusion in Nepal is very ideological, with some authors considering basically all Nepalis as socially excluded except for male Bahuns of hill origin. This is obviously...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2009: 15) 54 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2008
Communal Land Rights and Peace-Building in North Kordofan: Policy and Legislative Challenges
Land policies are of fundamental importance to the wellbeing of and the economic opportunities open to rural people, good governance, and peaceful coexistence. Therefore, land policy and analysis of specific...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2008: 3) 14 p.

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2007
Bukken og havresekken
Norsk Senter for Demokratistøtte (NDS) - som består av alle partiene på Stortinget - får 7 millioner kroner årlig for å bistå i «utviklingen av velfungerende og pluralistiske politiske demokratiske...
Dagbladet, 6. desember

Journal Article | 2007
When Men do Women's Work: Structural Adjustment, Unemployment and Changing Gender Relations in the Informal Economy of Accra, Ghana
Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural-urban...
in Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 45 no. 4 pp. 539-563

CMI Working Paper | 2007
The Question of Becoming: Islamic Reform-Movements in Contemporary Ethiopia
Ethiopia's new political climate (since 1991) has enhanced the Muslims' opportunities for religious expressions, clearly seen through the surfacing of several Islamic reform movements. These movements; the Salafi movement, the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2007: 8) 20 p.

Journal Article | 2007
Fissions and Fusions, Foes and Friends
The issue of presidential term limits is emerging as an important political norm on the African continent, but the effects of the third term debates on the institutionalization of the...
in Comparative Political Studies vol. 40 no. 9 pp. pp1112-1137

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2006
Islam på godt og vondt
Karikaturtegningene av Muhammed har skapt debatt i norske medier. Denne debatten har blant annet omhandlet islam og hvorvidt denne religionen utgjør en trussel mot vår sivilisasjon. I programmet Tabloid i...
Bergens Tidende 08.02.2006

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2006
Islam har skylden?
Det demokratiske underskuddet i Midt-østen og Nord-Afrika er slående. Mange vil hevde at «islam har skylden», da islam i litteraturen ofte brukes som en generell og lite opplysende forklaringsfaktor for...
Studvest 15.04.2006

Newspaper Op-Ed | 2006
Hassan al-Turabi: Maktsyk Agitator eller Kvinnevennlig Demokrat?
I Morgenbladets artikkel "Ikke undertrykk islamismen!" av Sten Inge Jørgensen fremstilles den sudanske islamisten Hassan al-Turabi som en reformvennlig opposisjonell som har ertet på seg muslimske lærde verden over med...
Morgenbladet 8-14 September 2006

CMI Working Paper | 2005
'Money has no Name': Informalisation, Unemployment and changing Gender Relations in Accra, Ghana
Economic crisis and structural adjustment in Ghana have put large numbers of formal sector employees and civil servants out of work. This informalisation process has gendered consequences. Unemployed people, rural-urban...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper) 19 p.

Master's Thesis | 2005
Islamism and Democracy: An Inquiry into the Political Thought of the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi
My focus of analysis is Islamist democracy as conceived by the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi. I aim to explore and understand Turabi's concept of democracy and study the roots of...
Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Cand. Polit. Degree. Bergen: Department of Comparative Politics. University of Bergen 159 p.

Journal Article | 2005
Islamisme og demokrati hånd i hånd
Islamisme indikerer en ideologi der islam bevisst blir brukt som en guide for politisk handling og ideologien varierer fra ekstrem moderasjon til ekstrem radikalisme. Denne artikkelen fokuserer på islamisme som...
in Babylon: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier vol. 3 no. 2 pp. 116-123

CMI Working Paper | 2005
Fissions and fusions, foes and friends: Party system re-structuring in Malawi in the 2004 general elections
The issue of presidential term limits is emerging as an important political norm on the African continent, but the effects of the third term debates on the institutionalization of the...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2005: 6)

Journal Article | 2004
From dominant to competitive party system: The Zambian experiences 1991-2001
In this article we analyse the changes in the party system in Zambia in the period 1991 to 2001. Based on changes observed in terms of the number of parties,...
in Party Politics vol. 10 no. 1 pp. 49-68

CMI Report | 2004
Peacebuilding in post-war situations: Lessons for Sudan
This report examines lessons from peacebuilding efforts during the last decade or so that are relevant to the current challenges in Sudan. While there is an emphasis on governance interventions,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2004: 13) 25 p.

CMI Report | 2003
Political Islam in the Middle East
This report provides an overview of the political Islam in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the Islamic resurgence in the Levant (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2003:3) 32 p.

Edited Book | 2001
Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis
This book is about the multitude of associations that has emerged in African cities in recent years. In many cases, they are a response to mounting poverty, failing infrastructure and...
Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute 324 p.

CMI Working Paper | 1996
Rational choice and the problem of institutions. A discussion of rational choice institutionalism and its application by Robert Bates
The paper discusses and reviews various directions within new institutional economics. A central question of concern is whether theories of institutionalism based within rational choice reasoning provide a theoretical basis...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 1996:6)