Carl Henrik Knutsen's homepage
Born in Kongsvinger, Norway on the 26th of March, 1981
- Contact
- Postal Address:
- Postboks 1097 Blindern
- 0317 Oslo, Norway
- Visiting address:
- Political Science Department, Faculty of Social Sciences
- Eilert Sundts hus, 9th floor, Room 935
- Moltke Moes vei 31
- 0851 Oslo, Norway
- Office phone: (+47) 228 54244
- Email: c.h.knutsen@stv.uio.no
Current positions
Postdoctor at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo (from December 2011)
Associated Researcher, ESOP, Department of Economics, University of Oslo
Associated Researcher Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO
Educational background and previous positions
BA in Political Science, History and Philosophy
(2004), University of Oslo
2-year MA in Political Science (2006), University of Oslo
5-year MA in Economic
Theory and Econometric Methods (2008), University of Oslo
Phd-fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, (October 2007-November 2011)
Researcher (10% position) at the Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO
Guest Researcher at: Sciences Po, Bordeaux, fall 2009; Columbia University, New York, spring 2010
Ph.d. Thesis
-Department of Political Science, University of
Oslo, 2011: "The Economic Effects of Democracy and Dictatorship" [PDF]
Journal articles
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2011). Security Threats, Enemy-Contingent Policies and Economic Development in Dictatorships. International Interactions 37(4): 414-40.
LINK to article
-Knutsen, Carl
Henrik, Asmund Rygh and Helge Hveem (2011). Does State Ownership
Matter? Institutions' Effect on Foreign Direct Investment Revisited. Business and Politics 13(1).
LINK to article
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2011). Which Democracies Prosper? Electoral Rules, Form of Government and Economic Growth. Electoral Studies 30(1): 83-90.
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Internet Appendix
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2011). Democracy, Dictatorship and Protection of Property Rights. Journal of Development Studies 47(1): 164-182.
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-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2011). I’ll mind my own business if you mind yours: The OAU and the African Peace. Dynamiques Internationales, peer reviewed WP#3
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Republished at e-International Relations: Link
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2010). Investigating the Lee thesis: How bad is democracy for Asian economies? European Political Science Review 2(3): 451-473.
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Tables
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2010). Den rasjonelle diktator [The rational dictator]. Internasjonal Politikk 68(3): 404-414.
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-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2010). Measuring Effective Democracy. International Political Science Review 31(2): 109-128.
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Appendix Table
Book chapters
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2012). "Democracy, Dictatorship and Technological Change" in Helge Hveem and Carl Henrik Knutsen [Eds.] Governance and Knowledge: The Politics of Foreign
Investment, Technology and Ideas. London: Routledge. Forthcoming.
-Hveem, Helge and Carl Henrik Knutsen (2012). "Introduction: Politics
and the Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge" in Helge Hveem and Carl
Henrik Knutsen [Eds.] Governance and Knowledge: The Politics of Foreign
Investment, Technology and Ideas. London: Routledge . Forthcoming.
-Knutsen,
Carl Henrik (2011). "Democracy and Economic Growth: A Changing
Relationship" in Dag Harald Claes and Carl Henrik Knutsen [Eds.] Governing the Global Economy: Politics, Institutions and Economic Development. London: Routledge.
-Claes, Dag Harald and Carl Henrik Knutsen (2011). "The Global
Political Economy: International Institutions, States and MNEs" in Dag
Harald Claes and Carl Henrik Knutsen
[Eds.] Governing the Global Economy: Politics, Institutions and Economic Development. London: Routledge.
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2011). "Education" in Helge Hveem and Lelio Iapadre [Eds.] The Global Governance of Knowledge: Education, research, innovation and international cooperation. London: Routledge.
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2011). "Research" in Helge Hveem and Lelio Iapadre [Eds.] The Global Governance of Knowledge: Education, research, innovation and international cooperation. London: Routledge.
-Knutsen, Carl Henrik (2011). "Open flow of ideas" in Helge Hveem and Lelio Iapadre [Eds.] The Global Governance of Knowledge: Education, research, innovation and international cooperation. London: Routledge.
-Hveem, Helge and Carl Henrik Knutsen (2011). "Co-operation on knowledge activities" in Helge Hveem and Lelio Iapadre [Eds.] The Global Governance of Knowledge: Education, research, innovation and international cooperation. London: Routledge.
Master Theses
-Ph.d. Thesis, Department of Political Science, University of
Oslo, 2011: "The Economic Effects of Democracy and Dictatorship" [PDF]
-Master Thesis, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 2007: "Democracy and Property
Rights - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis on the Effects of
Political Regime Type on Property Rights Arrangements" [PDF]
-Master Thesis, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, 2006: "Political Regime
Types and Economic Growth - Are Democracies Better at Increasing
Prosperity?" [PDF]
Cross sectional data set in SPSS [SAV]
Working papers in progress; to be updated soon
-Income Growth and Revolutions
-Democracy and Income Inequality: Estimating a Reciprocal Relationship
-Democracy, Technological Change and Economic Growth
-Africa's Growth Tragedy Revisited: Weak States, Strong Rulers
GARNET WORKING PAPER NO 71/09 [LINK]
-Issue Attention and Individual Voting Intentions: Survey Experiments of Selective Exposure in Simulated Election Campaigns
Co-authored with Audun Beyer and Bjørn Erik Rasch
-Development and the Utility of Interstate War
Co-authored with Håvard Hegre and Bjørn Høyland
Some older working papers
-Democracy, Dictatorship and Technological Change [PDF]
Long, formal version
-From James Monroe and the Quing
Dynasty to George W. Bush and the Communist Party: The historical
evidence on how democracy and dictatorship affect economic growth [PDF]
-The Economic Effects of Democracy - An Empirical Analysis [DOC]
-GDP, Inequality, Democracy and the Happiness of Nations [PDF]
-Methodological approaches and causal inference: incommensurability or complementarity? [DOC]
-Foreign Direct Investment and Political Systems in Host Countries: The Case of Norway
Co-authored with Helge Hveem and Asmund Rygh
-Blue-eyed investors? Norwegian Foreign direct investments and political systems in host countries [PDF]
Co-authored with Helge Hveem and Asmund Rygh.
-The latecomer investor. Patterns of outward Norwegian foreign direct investments
Co-authored with Helge Hveem and Asmund Rygh
-Democracy and Economic Growth in the Post-Cold War Period [DOC]
-The functions of international agreements and regulation in the areas of knowledge creation and diffusion... [DOC]
-A short note on concepts and elementary mathematics used in rational choice theory [DOC]
Note for STV4346B
-Beyond OLS: A non-technical guide to econometric methods [DOC]
Note for STV4346B
Book reviews, magazine- and newspaper articles, etc.
-Demokratisk teori og historisk praksis: Forutsetninger for folkestyre
1750-1850 [Democratic theory and historical practice: Preconditions for
popular rule 1750-1850]. Book review of Sandvik, Hilde [ed.] (2010],
Oslo: Scandinavian Academic Press, in Arr
-De negative konsekvensene av økonomisk ulikhet
[The negative consequences of economic inequality] Debate article in
MINERVA [LINK]
-Urettferdig valgordning? [Unjust electoral system?] Article in Dagsavisen 16/9 2009 [LINK]
-Historiens slutt, 20 år etter [The End of History, 20 years after] Article in MINERVA 30/9 2009 [LINK]
-Spillteori: En innføring [Game theory: An introduction]. Book
review of Hovi, Jon (2008), Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, in Norsk Statsvitenskaplig Tidsskrift 3/08 293-6:
-Diktaturets fortreffelighet? [The excellence of dictatorship?]
Comment in Aftenposten 21/8-2008 (in Norwegian) [HTML]
-Journal article in Fortid 2(3), 2005, "Forholdet
mellom makroøkonomiske modeller og historiske hendelser" [The
relationship between macroeconomic models and historical events] Link to the journal [PDF]
Reviewer assignments for the following journals:
Journal of Economic Growth; International Studies Quarterly; Journal of Peace Research;
International Political Science Review; Political Research Quarterly; International Area Studies Review; Dynamiques
Internationales; Norsk Statsvitenskaplig Tidsskrift
Ongoing Research Projects; to be updated soon
Teaching
Lectures
Spring 2009
7. Globalisering og konsekvenser for politikk og velferd [Globalization and consequences for politics and welfare] [PPT]
8. Globalisering, politikk og utvikling [Globalization, politics and development] [PPT]
9. Aktører, institusjoner og politisk økonomi [Actors, institutions and political economy] [PPT]
Fall 2008
Reading list [DOC]
Preliminary teaching plan and suggested extra readings [DOC]
- 1st and 2nd lectures: Introduction to Comparative Political Economy: Approaches, theory and methodology [PPT]
- -".
- States and
Markets 1 [PPT]
- States and
Markets 2 [PPT]
- Modernization theory and democratization [PPT]
- 1)
Democratization and 2) Economic effects of institutions [PPT]
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The economic effects of political institutions [PPT]
- Topics
from Europe and North America; (I) varieties of capitalism, (II)
governments, labor markets and economic growth, (III) economic
voting [PPT]
- Topics from Asia and Latin America; (I) industrial policy, (II) inequality and land [PPT]
- Topics from Africa; (I) corruption and (II) neo-patrimonialism [PPT]
- Example of what an exam could look like: To be discussed in the last seminar [DOC]
- Summing up.. [DOC]
Guest Lectures
Lecture note 2008: Demokrati og økonomisk vekst [PPT]
Lecture note 2009: Demokrati og økonomisk vekst [PPT]
Lecture note 2008: Trade and investment patterns [PPT]
Lecture note 2008: An introduction to elementary statistical analysis and concepts [PPT]
Seminars
- Microeconomic theory and rational choice models [DOC]
- Econometrics [DOC]
Presentations
2011
To be updated!
2010
To be updated!
2009
Presentation at ESOP, political economics reading group: "The
economic effects of constitutions" (Persson and Tabellini, 2004 and
Acemoglu, 2005)
Presentation at Heidelberg Doctoral Colloquim and CSCW workshop in Oslo: "Africa's Growth Tragedy Revisited: Weak States and Strong Rulers"
Presentation at Tuesday Seminar, Department of Pol.Sci. UiO, Monday
Lunch Seminar, ESOP and Annual GARNET Conference in Rome: "Democracy,
Dictatorship and Technological Change"
Presentation at Department of Political Science, UiO, International
Political Economy Reading Group: "Selected works by Douglass C. North"
Reading group [Norwegian], Grunnlagsproblemer i Statsvitenskap:
*En kort innføring i vitenskapsfilosoifi [A short introduction to philosophy of science] [PPT]
*Kausalitet [Causality]
*Karl Popper
*Analytisk språkfilosofi [Analytic philosophy of language]
*Spillteori [Game theory]
Presentation at ESOP, political economics reading group: "The Tinpot
and the Totalitarian: An Economic Theory of Dictatorship" (Wintrobe,
1990) [PPT]
Presentation at ESOP, political economics reading group and for the
Comparative Democratic Politics Semiar (ISV). "The Economoic Growth
Effect of Constitutions Revisited" [PPT]
Presentation at BI, seminar in positive political science. Paper presented: "From James Monroe and the Quing
Dynasty to George W. Bush and the Communist Party: The historical
evidence on how democracy and dictatorship affect economic growth" [PPT]
Presentation at Tuesday Seminar, Dep of Pol Sci, UiO: "Democracy, Dictatorship and Protection of Property Rights" [PPT]
2008
Reading group: Qualitative methods and inference:
* Rational choice [PPT]
* Testing theories vs explaining outcomes [PPT]
* Causality and causal inference [PPT]
* Basic issues of validity and inference [PPT]
Reading group: Game theory:
*Extensive form games (application: Acemoglu and Robinson's model on democratization) [PPT]
*Normal form games (application: Down's median voter) [PPT]
*An introduction to rational choice [PPT]
Presentation of "I'll mind my own business if you mind
yours - The OAU, non-intervention strategies and the lack of interstate
wars in Post-Colonial Africa" for 3rd Annual GARNET conference in
Bordeaux and for CSCW workshop on The dynamics of institutional change
and conflict. [PPT]
Lecture "Åpen dag", UiO: Hvordan påvirker demokrati økonomisk utvikling? [PPT]
Presentation for "Aktualitetsuka", Department of Economics, UiO: Where
did the Social Planner Go? The Economic Strategies of Dictators [PPT]
Presentation for the Department of Public Governance, The
Norwegian School of Mangement, BI: The Economic Effects of Democracy [PPT]
Presentation for "Aktualitetsuka", Department of Political Scince. "Why
authoritarianism sometimes work economically! - Experiences from Asia" [PPT]
Presentation for The National Conference in Political Science, Tromsø, April. "Enlightened Rule and Tyranny" [PPT]
Presentation at the Lysebu-seminar (in Norwegian): Przewroski and Limongi's "Political Regimes and Economic Growth" (1993) [PPT]
Presentation at the Political Economics Reading Group, ESOP: Robinson's "When is a State Predatory" (2001) [PPT]
PPTtirsdagsseminar
CHKtirsdagsseminar