Kaja Sparre Bakke left PRIO in 2022. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Research Interests
- Autoctratization and democratic erosion
- Democracy
- Contentious politics and protest movements
- Repertoires of contentious politics
- Civil war and rebel insurgencies
- Quantitative methods
- Statistical modelling
Background
I am currently enrolled in the Peace and Conflict Studies programme at the University in Oslo and writing my thesis as part of the UiO-PRIO Student Program. Employing quantitative methods, my thesis project explores the mechanisms linking democratic erosion events and subsequent mass mobilization in defence of democracy. Essentially, I ask when citizens will take to the streets to defend democracy.
At PRIO I'm also involved with the project Women Ambassadors in the UN Security Council: A Decade in Review, where I code and build datasets as well as assist with the project's methodological development.
Education
2020 – 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