Climate change doesn’t win you a climate election: party competition in the 2021 Norwegian general election

How to win a large election

How should a political campaign maximize its chance of winning an election when voters can abstain? We analyze when it is optimal for the campaign to maximize its expected margin of victory (EMV) over its opponent, i.e., the difference between its vote share of the pool of potential voters and its opponent’s share. If campaign decisions are decentralized to independent localities, EMV maximizat...

Election to Cancún: A Comparative Rhetorical Criticism of President Barack Obama's Speeches on Climate Change

speeches on climate change, from the time of his election in 2008 until his conspicuous absence at the Cancún climate change talks in December 2010. Climate change is an issue of societal importance because of its negative effects on the environment and the economy. It is also important to the field of communication studies because an efficacious climate change accord relies on the ability to c...

U.S. elections. Election means change in climate for efforts to curb emissions.

Malaysia’s 2008 General Election

Leading theories of transitions from single-party dominant systems begin with economic crisis, the party’s loss of patronage resources, and elite-level defections. The multiparty elections that are then held exert no independent effect, but instead register neutrally the party’s decline and the democratization of politics. This paper, however, shifts attention from the dominant party to citizen...

Effects of Climate Change on Norwegian Agriculture

This is a brief report on a model study of how production systems in two regions of Norway are affected by expected climate change, and how these soil-plant ecosystems functions as reactors in the climate system. A cluster of models simulating heat and water transport, plant growth, soil Cand N-transformations and transport have been run based on historical weather and weather generated by dyna...