Vibeke Wøien Hansen

• Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Marshall, David; Rasmussen, Anne & Webb, Paul D (2020). Competition and interaction: Party ties to interest groups in a multidimensional policy space. European Journal of Political Research. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12403 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Political parties and interest groups play a vital role in incorporating societal interests into democratic decision‐making. Therefore, explaining the nature and variation in the relationship between them will advance our understanding of democratic governance. Existing research has primarily drawn attention to how exchange of resources shapes these relationships largely neglecting the role of contextual conditions. Our contribution is to examine whether parties’ structured interactions with different categories of interest groups vary systematically with the pattern of party competition at the level of policy dimensions. First, we argue that higher party fragmentation in a policy space makes organisational ties to interest groups more likely, due to fears of voter loss and splinter groups. Second, we expect higher polarisation between parties on a policy dimension to make ties to relevant groups less likely due to increased electoral costs. We find support for both expectations when analysing new data on 116 party units in 13 mature democracies along nine different policy dimensions. Our findings underline the value of considering the strategic context in which parties and interest groups interact to understand their relationship. The study sheds new light on parties and interest groups as intermediaries in democracy and contributes to a new research agenda connecting interest group research with studies of parties’ policy positions and responsiveness.

• Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Otjes, Simon; Poguntke, Thomas; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Saurugger, Sabine & Marshall, David (2020). Conceptualizing and measuring party-interest group relationships. Party Politics. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068820949393 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Relationships between political parties and interest groups form structures that enable and constrain political action. Yet there is a lack of consensus on what ‘party-group relationships’ means. We propose a conceptualization focusing on ties as means for structured interaction, which is different from sharing or transfer of resources and ideological kinship. Our conceptual discussion suggests that organizational ties form a single yet hierarchical scale of strength: groups that have many formal ties with particular parties would also have weaker ties with these parties, but not vice versa. To validate our conceptual map, we furthermore check whether the distinction between organizational ties, resource sharing/provision and ideological kinship holds empirically. We explore our expectations by means of novel interest group survey data from seven mature democracies. The results of our scaling analysis provide support for our predictions and have multiple implications for future research on the causes and effects of party-group relationships.

• Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd & Hansen, Vibeke Wøien (2019). Organiserte interesser: Hvem har tilgang til partiene?, I: Elin Haugsgjerd Allern; Jo Saglie & Øyvind Østerud (red.),  Makt og opposisjon : De politiske partiene som demokratisk paradoks.  Universitetsforlaget.  ISBN 978-82-15-03431-7.  Kapittel 11.  s 161 - 175
• Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Otjes, Simon; Rasmussen, Anne; Røed, Maiken & Bale, Tim (2019). All about the money? A cross-national study of parties’ relations with trade unions in 12 western democracies. Party Politics.  s 1- 11 . doi: 10.1177/1354068819862143 Full text in Research Archive.
• Røed, Maiken & Hansen, Vibeke Wøien (2018). Explaining Participation Bias in the European Commission's Online Consultations: The Struggle for Policy Gain without too Much Pain. Journal of Common Market Studies.  56(6), s 1446- 1461 . doi: 10.1111/jcms.12754 Full text in Research Archive.
• Hansen, Vibeke Wøien (2014). Incomplete information and bargaining in the EU: An explanation of first-reading non-agreements. European Union Politics.  15(4), s 472- 495 . doi: 10.1177/1465116514541555
• Høyland, Bjørn & Hansen, Vibeke Wøien (2014). Issue-specific policy-positions and voting in the Council. European Union Politics.  15(1), s 59- 81 . doi: 10.1177/1465116513495970

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• Arnesen, Daniel & Hansen, Vibeke Wøien (2020). Oslos innbyggeres forventninger til kommunens tilrettelegging på tros- og livssynsfeltet. Rapport – Institutt for samfunnsforskning. 2020:7. Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Denne rapporten presenterer resultatene fra en spørreundersøkelse om hvilke forventninger innbyggerne i Oslo har til offentlige instansers tilrettelegging for tros- og livssynsrelaterte tjenester og aktiviteter på sykehjem, i skole og på andre arenaer. Formålet har vært å gi bedre kunnskap om kommunens rolle på dette området. Analysene peker på en rekke interessante variasjoner og trekk, når det gjelder både tros- og livssynsidentitet og medlemskap i tros- og livssynssamfunn, og langs dimensjoner som kjønn, alder og sosioøkonomisk status. Rapportens funn er et viktig bidrag til bedre kunnskap om innbyggernes forventninger til offentlige instanser på tros- og livssynsfeltet.

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• Hansen, Vibeke Wøien & Maiken, Røed (2018). Explaining participation bias in EU online consultations. EUROPP. LSE blog.
• Holtermann, Helge; Hansen, Vibeke Wøien; Hovi, Jon & Stankovic, Tatjana (2016). Bargaining, Enforcement, and Civil War.

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