34 research outputs found
Applied Econometric Studies in Political Representation and Mobilization
No full textAbstract Chapter 1: Child Penalties in Politics
Women tend to experience a substantial decline in their labour income after their first child is born, while men do not. Do such ‘child penalties’ also exist in the political arena? Using comprehensive administrative data from Norway, we find that women are less likely than men to secure elected office after their first child is born. The effects manifest already from the nomination stage, where mothers receive less favourable rankings on party lists relative to comparable fathers. This paper broadens our understanding of a fundamental social issue in political representation and demonstrates how motherhood affects even positively selected women.
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Abstract Chapter 3: Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization Though Social Networks A vast and growing quantitative literature considers how social networks shape political mobilization but the degree to which turnout decisions are strategic remains ambiguous. Unlike previous studies, we establish personal links between voters and candidates and exploit discontinuous incentives to mobilize across district boundaries to estimate causal effects. Considering three types of networks – families, co-workers, and immigrant communities – we show that a group member’s candidacy acts as a mobilizational impulse propagating through the group’s network. In family networks, some of this impulse is non-strategic, surviving past district boundaries. However, the bulk of family mobilization is bound by the candidate’s district boundary, as is the entirety of the mobilizational effects in the other networks.publishedVersio
Effects of Insulting a Nation: An Empirical Study on the Impact of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian Exports
No full textThis master thesis revisits the question of the e ects of Chinese trade restriction on Norwegian
exports following the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Our study contributes to earlier literature both by having access to more recent data as well as
by exploring the possibility of China's neighboring countries being used as intermediaries. Using
a di -in-di approach where the gravity equation serves as a baseline for the counterfactual, our
ndings suggest that the USD value of Norwegian exports to China in aggregates were slightly
lower than normal during the years of treatment, albeit not signi cantly so. At the same time,
exports to Vietnam and South Korea are found to have been much higher than predicted, the
abnormal increase matching to a large degree the timing of the Peace Prize. On disaggregated
levels, we nd that fresh salmon, frozen halibut, sh meal, and to a lesser degree of certainty
petroleum and various mechanical products were likely subjected to such treatment. The total
value of re-exported salmon is estimated to be up to USD 560 million and the value of halibut at
USD 70 million, making the direct `Peace Prize e ect' even smaller considering that these gures
were not recorded as imports to their most likely destination. Next, we apply the same framework
to study the outcome of implementing free trade agreements with Beijing, nding that Western
nations to do so increase their USD value of exports to China in aggregates by an order of 38 to
55 percent compared to their respective counterfactuals. We nevertheless conclude that this gain
comes at a high price, suggesting that the Norwegian delegates who are currently negotiating a
similar agreement with China should take care not to be kind to a fault
Effects of Insulting a Nation: An Empirical Study on the Impact of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Norwegian Exports
No full textMasteroppgave(MSc) in Master of Science in Business, Economics - Handelshøyskolen BI, 2020This master thesis revisits the question of the e ects of Chinese trade restriction on Norwegian
exports following the awarding of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
Our study contributes to earlier literature both by having access to more recent data as well as
by exploring the possibility of China's neighboring countries being used as intermediaries. Using
a di -in-di approach where the gravity equation serves as a baseline for the counterfactual, our
ndings suggest that the USD value of Norwegian exports to China in aggregates were slightly
lower than normal during the years of treatment, albeit not signi cantly so. At the same time,
exports to Vietnam and South Korea are found to have been much higher than predicted, the
abnormal increase matching to a large degree the timing of the Peace Prize. On disaggregated
levels, we nd that fresh salmon, frozen halibut, sh meal, and to a lesser degree of certainty
petroleum and various mechanical products were likely subjected to such treatment. The total
value of re-exported salmon is estimated to be up to USD 560 million and the value of halibut at
USD 70 million, making the direct `Peace Prize e ect' even smaller considering that these gures
were not recorded as imports to their most likely destination. Next, we apply the same framework
to study the outcome of implementing free trade agreements with Beijing, nding that Western
nations to do so increase their USD value of exports to China in aggregates by an order of 38 to
55 percent compared to their respective counterfactuals. We nevertheless conclude that this gain
comes at a high price, suggesting that the Norwegian delegates who are currently negotiating a
similar agreement with China should take care not to be kind to a fault
Bound by Borders: Voter Mobilization Through Social Networks
No full textA vast and growing quantitative literature considers how social networks shape political mobilization but the degree to which turnout decisions are strategic remains ambiguous. Unlike previous studies, we establish personal links between voters and candidates and exploit discontinuous incentives to mobilize across district boundaries to estimate causal effects. Considering three types of networks – families, co-workers, and immigrant communities – we show that a group member's candidacy acts as a mobilizational impulse propagating through the group's network. In family networks, some of this impulse is non-strategic, surviving past district boundaries. However, the bulk of family mobilization is bound by the candidate's district boundary, as is the entirety of the mobilizational effects in the other networks.acceptedVersio
Ontologia e revelação: a filosofia no sistema teológico de Paul Tillich
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-graduação em FilosofiaEsta dissertação aborda a ontologia e a concepção de revelação do pensamento de Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich. O ponto de partida é o seu trabalho sistemático onde são focais as questões, Razão, Revelação, Ser e Deus. Segundo o autor, há duas questões fundamentais que envolvem o ser humano e a fé: o estado de existência e a revelação incondicional de Deus. Trata-se de articular as perguntas que surgem da situação de existência e da reposta divina que está dada de modo incondicional na revelação. O autor, para articular existência e revelação, estabelece o que ele denomina método de correlação, com o qual pretende tratar o problema existência e essência de um modo diferente das concepções filosóficas naturalistas e sobrenaturalistas de nossa tradição teísta. A ontologia ocupa um papel preponderante em seu sistema teológico ao atribuir a Deus a noção Ser-em-Si como questão implícita do Ser, e a noção Novo Ser ou Logos Encarnado, ao Cristo. Ser existente é estar limitado pelo Não-Ser, embora sabendo-se partícipe do Ser. Participar do Ser de forma essencial, segundo o autor investigado, importa perceber que santidade, fé, divino, demoníaco, queda, salvação são expressões que demandam uma ontologia e não somente questões morais como elas foram interpretadas pela perspectiva secular. A ontologia de seu sistema pretende traduzir a profundidade e o sentido da revelação ao crente moderno em uma época em que a fé foi "domesticada" e já não representa existencialmente uma questão última e incondicional para o ser humano. This dissertation approaches the ontology and the conception of the disclosure concept of the thought of Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich. The start point is his systematic work where are focused the Questions, Reason, Revelation, Being, and God. According to the author, there are two fundamental questions that compreehend the human being and the faith: the state of existence and the unconditional disclosure of God. It is dealt of articulating the questions that appear of the existence situation and the divine response that is given in an unconditional way in the disclosure. The author, to articulate existence and disclosure, establishes what he denominates method of correlation, with what he intends to treat the problem of existence and essence in a different way of the naturalists and sobrenaturalists phylosophic conceptions of our theist tradition. The ontology ocupies a preponderant role in its teological system in assigning to God the notion Be in Itself like an implicit question of being, and the notion New Be or Incarnate Logus, to the Christ. Being existent is to be limited by the not-being, although knowing itself participant of Being. Participate of the being in an essential way, according to the investigated author it is important to perceive that holiness, faith, divine, demoniac, fall, salvation are expressions that demand an ontology and not only moral questions like the ones compreehended by the secular perspective. The ontology of its system intend to translate the depth and the sense of disclosure of the modern believer in an epoch in what the faith was "domesticated" and yet does not represents existencially a last matter and unconditional to the human being
The Assyrian king and his scholars: the Syro-Anatolian and the Egyptian Schools
No full textThe article highlights the presence of scholars from Egypt and Syro-Anatolia in the service of the Neo-Assyrian kings
The descent of Christ in Ephesians 4:7-11 : an exegetical investigation with special reference to the influence of traditions about Moses associated with Psalm 68:19.
No full textThis study attempts to demonstrate that the most probable interpretation of the descent of Christ in Eph. 4: 7-11 involves a descent of Christ as the Spirit who distributes gifts to his church subsequent to the ascent of Eph. 4: 8. The investigation begins with a history of the interpretation of Eph. 4: 7-11. Most modern interpreters favour either a descent to the under- world (or the grave) between Christ's death and resurrection or a descent from heaven to earth at the incarnation. Textual and grammatical problems relevant to the proposed exegesis are also discussed. A major portion of the study deals with the ascent-descent imagery associating Ps. 68: 19 (quoted in Eph. 4: 8) and Moses as found in Tg Psalms and the rabbinic literature. The author of Ephesians, had he been aware of these traditions associating Psalm 68 with Moses, would have been predisposed to think in terms of a subsequent descent, because Moses' ascent of Mt Sinai to receive the Torah was followed by his descent to distribute it as 'gifts' to men. Although it is clear that both Tg Psalms and the rabbinic literature are later than Ephesians, there is evidence from a number of early sources that such Moses-traditions were in circulation prior to the first century CE. The association of these traditions with Ps. 68: 19 as employed by the author of Ephesians appears to exist through the connection of Moses' ascent of Sinai to receive the Torah with the celebration of the Jewish feast of Pentecost on the one hand, and the Christian use of Psalm 68 in connection with Pentecost (described in Acts 2) on the other. Ps. 68: 19 was already understood to refer to the ascent of Christ and the gift of the Spirit in a layer of tradition older than Ephesians. Familiarity with the Moses-traditions connected with an ascent and descent of Sinai would have suggested a subsequent descent. Thus the author's innovation did not lie in the use of the psalm in a christological sense, nor in the introduction of a subsequent descent of Christ inferred from the ascent mentioned in Ps. 68: 19. The contribution of the author of Ephesians consisted in his identification of the ascended Christ as the Spirit who descended to distribute gifts to his church. Such an interpretation offers the best explanation of the passage in light of the evidence linking Moses-traditions of a heavenly ascent at Sinai with Pentecost and Psalm 68
A Reading of the David and Goliath Narrative in Greek and Hebrew
No full textThe story of David and Goliath existed in antiquity in two distinct literary versions, a short version found in LXXB and a longer version reflected in the MT. This thesis proposes that each version is worthy of study in its own right and offers a close literary reading of the narrative of David and Goliath in the Greek text of 1 Reigns 16-18. In this study we explore a method of reading the Septuagint that recognizes it is both a document in its own right and a translation of a Hebrew original. In offering this reading of the septuagintal version of the David and Goliath narrative we will highlight the literary difference between the two final versions of the story that exist in LXXB and MT
Merging and diverging : the Chronicler's integration of material from Kings, Isaiah, and Jeremiah in the narratives of Hezekiah and the Fall of Judah
No full textThe phenomenon of inner-biblical interpretation and inter-textual replication of scriptural material within the Old Testament is receiving significant attention in current scholarship. Two narratives which are repeated three times in the Hebrew Bible provide a particularly fruitful case study for this type of research: the Hezekiah narrative (2 Kgs 18-20; Isa 36-39; 2 Chr 29-32) and the account of the fall of Judah (2 Kgs 24-25; Jer 52; 2 Chr 36). This study extends the contributions of redaction-critical, literary-critical, and text-critical studies examining the narratives of 2 Kings 18-20//Isaiah 36-39 and 2 Kings 24:18-25:30//Jeremiah 52 and emphasizes their subsequent reception in Chronicles. In addition, this investigation advances the discussion of the Chronicler's reliance upon and method of incorporating material from the Latter Prophets. It is the conclusion of this thesis that the Chronicler was familiar with the versions of the Hezekiah narrative and the account of the fall of Judah in both 2 Kings and the Latter Prophets. His method of handling these alternative accounts reflects both direct quotation (particularly in the case of 2 Kings) and indirect allusion to themes and idioms (with regard to the Latter Prophets). The result is a re-telling of Judah's history which is infused with hope for restoration as articulated by the Latter Prophets. By portraying an idealized account of Israel's past history which corresponds to prophetic descriptions of the nation's restoration, Chronicles illustrates the accessible, utopic potential held out to every generation of faithful Israel
Michal, contradicting values : understanding the moral dilemma faced by Saul's daughter
No full textValue conflicts due to cultural differences are an increasingly pressing issue in many societies. Because Old Testament texts hail from a very different milieu to our own they may provide new perspectives upon contemporary conflicts and, in this context, the present dissertation investigates one particular value clash in 1 Samuel.
Studies of Old Testament ethics have attended to narrative only relatively recently. Although social-scientific interpretation has a longer pedigree, there are important debates about how to employ the fruits of anthropology in biblical studies. The first part of this thesis, therefore, attends to methodological issues, advancing four main propositions. First, attention should be paid to the moral goods that feature in the text. Second, the family, a central feature of Old Testament morality, should be understood as a set of practices rather than an institution. Third, 'models' of social action that purport to comprehend the social world of the Bible should be used only cautiously. Finally, a modified version of Bakhtin's theory of heteroglossic voices can help readers appreciate how authors present a moral vision by approving some characters' actions whilst undermining others.
The second part of the thesis employs this methodology to examine 1 Samuel 19.10-18a. The discussion of the moral dilemma facing Michal adduces anthropological theories and ethnographic data concerning violence, lying, and the relationship between fathers and daughters. Given that the conflicts of moral goods are 'resolved' by characters choosing to act in a certain way, the dissertation enquires after the author's assessment of each character's moral choices, and hence their theological import. The dissertation argues that Michal's loyalty to David and deception of Saul was counter-cultural, and by approving of her choice the author affirms the importance of loyalty to the Davidic dynasty
