Francesca Refsum Jensenius is a Norwegian political scientist currently working as a professor at the University of Oslo. Her work relates to comparative politics and specifically focuses on the Indian political economy. She received the Nils Klim Prize in 2018 for her contributions to scholarship.
Jensenius completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Oslo in 2005, studying for a bachelor's in arts and the Hindi language. She earned an M.A. in political science from Duke University. [1] Her doctoral work was completed at the University of California, Berkeley, and studied electoral quotas for scheduled castes in India. [2] She is currently a professor at the University of Oslo, in the department of political science. [1]
In 2017, Jensenius published Social Justice through Inclusion: The Consequences of Electoral Quotas in India (Oxford University Press), for which she won the Nils Klim Prize in 2018. [3] Her research work has since examined the economic agency of women, political representation, and legal regimes in comparative context. [3] She has been published in Comparative Political Studies , [4] the American Journal of Political Science , [5] Journal of Politics , [6] and Studies in Indian Politics . [7]
A referendum on joining the European Union was held in Norway on 27 and 28 November 1994. After a long period of heated debate, the "no" side won with 52.2 per cent of the vote, on a turnout of 88.6 per cent. Membership of what was then the European Community had previously been rejected in a 1972 referendum, and by French veto in 1962.
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