About the project
The three main questions in the project are:
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What contributes to the differences between parties when it comes to local representatives of ethnic minority descent?
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What influences the possibility to advance on a ballot paper for representatives of ethnic minority descent? How are the opportunities to get into one of the top-positions on the ballot paper improved or hindered?
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How does ethnic minority descent and gender intersect in the making of opportunities and barriers for recruitment and advancement?
These questions are researched through wide-ranging qualitative empirical materials:
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The political programs of the parties are analyzed in order to discover similarities and differences in how integration is framed, followed by a discussion on how this might influence integration in the organization of the political parties themselves.
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The statutes of the political parties are analyzed in order to discover similarities and differences in how the parties organize and how this might affect the integration of ethnic minority representatives. Additionally the general secretaries of the parties are interviewed.
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20 interviews with local party leaders in the local assemblies and in the local nomination committees are conducted, and with 27 local representatives of ethnic minority descent. The interviews are analyzed in order to examine how background criteria and competence criteria respectively, matter when candidates are picked and ranked on ballot papers in local elections.
Financing
University of Oslo. Period 2006 - 2011.
Cooperation
Together with researchers in the research project PLUREQ I am working on a book with the working title: “Gender equality politics in a multicultural Norway”.
Read more about PLUREQ