theKingdom of

Norway
NORWAY
Prepared by:

Apor, Ma. Jasmine

Benatiro, Nina Rose
Flores, Jedan Roy
Sencio, Giov Anton Luis
Stable
Political
Institutions
 the representatives are according
DIRECT ELECTIONS
to the relationship to one another
of the
ELECTORAL
electors
individual electoral vote
lists in terms
of number of votes they have
directly for
PROPORTIONA
received
representatives of their
SYSTEM

REPRESENTATIO
constituency
 THE
THE
During 1859,
proposals to change
In 2003,
geographical
such set-up is made, composition of
DEVELOPMENT
DEVELOPMENT however,
demands for
this
a
Parliament
were

OF
OF NORWAYS
NORWAYS
constitutional
amendment.
thoroughly
revised.

ELECTORAL
ELECTORAL
In 1814, the
parliament of
In the year 1919 as
to 2003, there is an
Norway is
dominatedSYSTEM
SYSTEM
and there
is a strong
overrepresentation
of remote and
sparsely populated
overrepresentation
districts
 The Storting or the
Storting
NORWAYS
parliament exercises the
LEGAL
legislative
passing or the
allocation of the
power
supervising the
work of the
Norway.
S in
YSTEM
discussion of
political
national budget government and
public issues
administration
reports that torture and
there Norway
are upholds the other cruel,
arbitrary or inhuman, or
presumption
unlawful
of
enforced innocence
degrading
in
their
deprivation laws in the form
disappearanc of legal
treatment or
es
protection.
of life punishment
 Norway repealed the
rectification principle in
a rule like that is not suitable
its criminal procedures in
under contemporary civil
1981
procedure.
POLITIC
AL
PARTIES
 1814: The Norwegian 1995: Fifteen major media
organizations develop the
Constitution was Norwegian Forum for Freed om of
created and Expression to support Article19 of

established a free
press. MASS the United Nations Declaration of
Human Rights representing
freedom of expression as a
human right

Journalism is
considered an
honorable and
important
MEDIA
1969: The government
authorizes subsidies to
ensure a diversified press,
providing for local and
2001: A
governmental
committee is
established to decide
on legal liability for
profession small circulation
publication of
newspapers
 formal
Today, The King
the Kings duties are and Queen
opening
mainly of make
representative state
and visits to
CONSTITUTION
ceremonial.
the Storting
other countries and
are hosts to foreign
in AL
Heads of State
important
connection
role
with
MONARCHY
The King is
Commander-in-
changes of Chief of the
government and countrys armed
presides over the
 78.5

78
THE CIVIC 78.23

CULTURE
77.44
77.5

P
77

THE MOST IDEAL POLITICAL

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76.5 76.37
voting percentage

76

75.5
CULTURE THAT IS
75 CHARACTERIZED BY A BLEND OF
75.08

74.5

74
ACTIVITY AND PASSIVITY ON THE
73.5
PART OF THE CITIZENS AND Voter Turnout

BALANCE BETWWEN OBLIGATION

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(Almond and Verba,

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1963,1980)
AND PERFIRMANCE ON THE PART
 Norway Voter Turnout
88

86 85.43

ACTIVE
83.84 84.03
84 82.89 83.16
82.02 81.99
82
80.24
80 79.33 79.07

POLITICAL
78.32 78.33 78.23
78 77.44
76.36 76.37
75.85
75.48
76

BEHAVIOR
74

72

70
1945 1949 1953 1957 1961 1965 1969 1973 1977 1981 1985 1989 1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 2013

Norway Voter Turnout

RATIONAL OR
SOCIAL CHOICE THEO
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78.23

78

77.44
77.5

77

76.5 76.37
voting percentage

76

75.5

75.08
75

74.5

74

73.5
Voter Turnout
Norwegian Parliament

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Atkeson (2003) also notes that the
political engagement of women has
been consistently increasing from
year to year. This finding is echoed
by Medvic (2010), who also shows
that since 1980 women have turned
out to vote in higher percentages
than men.
Onedescribed
of the most prominent differences between
women as
the genders is that women are more willing to
collaborative
work with others in order to reach a goal and
consensual
collectively, while men are more(Volden,
likely to work
alone so they
Wiseman, can prove
and themselves
Wittmer capable
2013) to
tell 3 among others. In support of this statement
and social
a recent as individualistic
men study of men and women
and women
described competitive (Volden,than
as more collaborative
men, who tend to be more commanding
Wiseman, and Wittmer 2013).
(Paustian-Underdahl, Walker, and Walker
REIF AND SCHMITT 1980

Second-order
Election
- less important
- lower voter
 the higher a persons social status and
the
more integrated they are in society, the
more likely they are to vote (Aardal
2002)

voter turnout is impacted by economic

adversity (Rosenstone 1992)
HIGH
STANDA OFLIVIN
RDS G
Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD), 2016
HAPPINESS
INDEX
NORWAY #1 in HAPPINESS
INDEX
main factors found to support happiness: caring,
freedom, generosity, honesty, health, income and
good governance.
high values in all six of the key variables used to
explain happiness differences among countries
and through time income, healthy life
expectancy, having someone to count on in times
of trouble, generosity, freedom and trust, with the
latter measured by the absence of corruption in
 PUBLI
C
WELFARE
H
HIGH
RESOURCE
CONSUMP
TION
 Importance
ofOF
HIGH LEVELS
PRODUCTIVIT
Productivity
(Salauroo, 2015)
 The most commonly used
Agreement on the
definition of productivity
- Real output per hour of work
Importance and
Labor
Definition of Productivity
Total Output of the Economy
Work& Batten, 1983; Campbell & Campbell,
(Bullock
1988; Craig
(Stein. & Harris,and
The Meaning 1973; Kopelman, of
Measurement 1986;
Tuttle, 1983)
Productivity, 1971)
Absence of Disagreement on the
General Notion

Presence of Different Productivity

Measures

Dependence on the Purpose of

Productivity
Measurement (Measuring Productivity 2001,
Measurement of Aggregate and
Industry-Level Productivity Growth,
OECD Manual)
As Student-
Comparativists
It is our objective to prove
and defend that Norway
manifests high levels of
productivity
Norway enjoys one of the highest
levels of productivity in the world
(Brasch. The Norwegian Productivity Puzzle- Not So Puzzling
After All?, 2015).

Norway has maintained its

productivity lead (including in the
non-petroleum sector) over most
OECD countries, and labor utilization
is also high
Socio-economic indicators
Total population (in thousands) 5,211

GDP in billions - PPP$ 322

GDP per capita - PPP$ 61,472

Source: OECD Economic Outlook 101 database; Thomson Reuters; and N

Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/888933503548
Value added in the Norwegian mainland
economy (excluding the petroleum
sector) has increased sevenfold in real
terms since 1930. This is predominantly
caused by higher labor productivity.

(Official Norwegian Reports NOU,

2015)
Labor productivity growth in market-
oriented mainland industries
Norway Labor Productivity
Growth
Norway Productivity
LITERACY
HIGH

RATE
According to UNESCO, literacy rate is
the total number of literate persons in
a given age group, expressed as a
percentage of the total population in
that age group.
Anyone aged seven years or
above, who can both read
and write with understanding
in any language, is treated
as literate (Joshi)
A high literacy rate (or low illiteracy rate)
suggests the existence of an effective primary
education system and/or literacy programs that
have enabled a large proportion of the
population to acquire the ability of using the
written word (and making simple arithmetic
calculations) in daily life and to continue learning

(http://uis.unesco.org)
Pre-primary school participation, Gross enrolment ratio (%) 2008 -2012*, male 100

Pre-primary school participation, Gross enrolment ratio (%) 2008 -2012*, female 98.3

Primary school participation, Gross enrolment ratio (%) 2008-2012*, male 99.1

Primary school participation, Gross enrolment ratio (%) 2008-2012*, female 99.2

Primary school participation, Net enrolment ratio (%) 2008-2012*, male 99.1

Primary school participation, Net enrolment ratio (%) 2008-2012*, female 99.2

Primary school participation, Survival rate to last primary grade (%) , 2008-2012*, admin. data 99.1

Secondary school participation, Net enrolment ratio (%) 2008-2012*, male 93.9

Secondary school participation, Net enrolment ratio (%) 2008-2012*, female 94

Source: http://www.indexmundi.com
Source: http://www.worldatlas.com
 Norway
manifests high
literacy rate