Elections and Democracy
The Norwegian National Election Studies (NNES) started at the Institute for Social Research in the 1950s, where it is still housed.
For decades, many key contributions in election and democracy research have come from researchers at the ISF. These contributions cover areas such as political representation and participation, electoral systems, internet elections, referenda, political parties, and political institutions at the national and local levels. This research constitutes an important knowledge base for understanding political developments in Norway.
The research uses a broad spectrum of research methods that also include experimental methods. Today, this research is largely characterised by national and international co-operation and is more extensive than ever.
Projects
- Communication Power of Politicians in a Digital Age (CEPOL)
- Democracy, trust and political inequality
- Disruptive Change and New Media Policies: A Field Approach
- Far right politics online and societal resilience
- Growth, integration and coordination in executive government
- Health communication regimes (HeCoRe)
- Immigration and Support for the Welfare State: Local and Institutional Responses
- New roads to a good local democracy
- NORPOL – is Norwegian society being polarized?
- Online debate cultures: A study of participants in polarised debates
- Populism, Inequality and Institutions
- Reshaping the Map of Local and Regional Self-Government. A study of the Norwegian Local Government Reform (NLGR) processes 2014-2019
- The 2017 Sámi Parliament Election Study
- The Limits of Sámi Politics: Inside and Outside of the Sámi Polity
- The Norwegian Local Election Studies of 2019 and 2023
- The Norwegian National Election Studies (NNES) of 2017 and 2021
Researchers
