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dc.contributor.advisorAakvaag, Gunnar
dc.contributor.authorOppheim, Elisa
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-04T08:33:32Z
dc.date.available2018-07-04T08:33:32Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-15
dc.description.abstractOn the 3rd of April 2016, the offshore secrets of the world’s political and financial elites were made public, as a year-long investigation of one of the biggest data leak in history came to fruition. The so-called Panama Papers contained the names of heads of governments, celebrities, criminals and CEO’s; and heavily represented in the leaked files, were the names of high-ranking Icelandic politicians and elected officials. This master’s thesis is a sociological case study of Iceland and the Panama Papers, focusing on the political accountability process sparked by the huge data leak. Using a single-case, process-tracing approach, in congruence with an explorative design and a grounded theory approach to theory development, this thesis seeks to develop a conceptual framework for assessing the relative success of political accountability processes. Analysing the empirical case of Iceland and the Panama Papers through this framework, this thesis will argue that successful political accountability can be achieved in modern liberal democracies, despite the challenges of globalisation and digitalisation. By incorporating the global reach of a new type of activists, and integrating the technologically resourceful journalist collective into the accountability process, political accountability processes can catch up to the globalised elites and overcome the challenge of information overload.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/13149
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2018 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSOS-3900
dc.subjectSociologyen_US
dc.subjectPanama Papersen_US
dc.subjectCase Studyen_US
dc.subjectAccountabilityen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosiologi: 220en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Sociology: 220en_US
dc.titlePolitical Accountability in Modern Liberal Democracies. A Sociological Case Study of Iceland and the Panama Papersen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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