Kaja Sparre Bakke left PRIO in 2022. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.

Kaja Sparre Bakke

Kaja Sparre Bakke

Interests and experience

  • Autoctratization and democratic erosion
  • Democracy
  • Contentious politics and protest movements
  • Repertoires of contentious politics
  • Civil war and rebel insurgencies
  • Quantitative methods
  • Statistical modelling

As part of the UiO-PRIO MA programme, I wrote my thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies at PRIO 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 PRIO 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, PRIO

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

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