- Autoctratization and democratic erosion
- Democracy
- Contentious politics and protest movements
- Repertoires of contentious politics
- Civil war and rebel insurgencies
- Quantitative methods
- Statistical modelling
Kaja Sparre Bakke left ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ in 2022. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Kaja Sparre Bakke
Interests and experience
As part of the UiO-ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ MA programme, I wrote my thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies at ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ the spring of 2022.
Employing quantitative methods, my thesis project explores the mechanisms linking democratic erosion and subsequent mass mobilization in defence of democracy. Essentially, I ask when citizens will take to the streets to defend democracy. The thesis title is: Protests in Defence of Democracy: Exploring the Heterogeneous Mobilizing Effects of Democratic Erosion.
At ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ I have also involved with the project Women Ambassadors in the UN Security Council: A Decade in Review, where I coded and buildt datasets, as well as assisted with the project's methodological development.
Education
2020 – 2022 MPhil in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Oslo
2016 – 2019 BA in International Studies, University of Oslo and McGill University
Work experience
2022 Research assistant, ÌÇÐÄÍøÒ³°æ
2021 Research assistant, NUPI
2021 Seminar teacher, University of Oslo
2020 Intern at the Norwegian Embassy in Reykjavik, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2019 – 2020 Student associate in the Department of International Monetary Policy, Norges Bank
Languages
Norwegian, English, basic French
