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Digital twins and the ethics of health decision-making concerning children
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this perspective, we explore from an ethical perspective the opportunities and challenges for decision-making concerning children if digital twins (DTs) were to be used to provide better information about their health ... -
Discourses in Residential Child Care and Possibilities for Evidence-Based Practice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article explores professional discourses in the Norwegian residential child care system. It discusses how the discourses serve as constraints on and possibilities for evidence-based practice when different definitions ... -
Discretion and the Demand for Reasons : Justifications for the Child’s Best Interests in Decisions on Adoption from Care in England and Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-11-19)This thesis asks how decision-makers with extensive discretionary authority justify strong state interventions on behalf of children in the child protection system. The empirical case under study is adoption from care ... -
Discretionary Decision-Making in Child Protection Care Order Cases : Exploring the Tensions between Rule of Law and Discretion
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-16)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg beslutninger som har stor innvirkning på enkeltindivider og som er nødvendige for å oppfylle statens plikt til å beskytte barn: omsorgsovertakelser av nyfødte barn. Profesjonelle beslutningstakere ... -
Do Networks really work? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Governance Networks in the context of Environmental Management: A Case Study of Two Ghanaian Megaprojects
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)In Ghana and elsewhere, large changes in environmental governance have occurred in recent years, moving from a hierarchical approach dominated by regulatory agencies to a more network-based approach including horizontal' ... -
Does criminalizing the purchase of sex reduce sex-buying? Evidence from a European survey on prostitution
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Whether to criminalize or legalize the purchase of sex has given rise to heated discussions and different policy initiatives. Opponents of the criminalization of sex-buying argue that prohibition pushes the sector underground, ... -
Does national culture matter for organizational culture in institutions of higher education? An Italian university and a Norwegian university compared
(Master thesis, 2012-06-07)The university of today has become an object of study, debate and reflection. Changes in the social sphere, globalization, economic and political trends, all these factors push universities towards new forms and role. ... -
Does performance auditing matter? The government administration’s response to the performance auditing of the Norwegian Office of the Auditor General
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-05-28)The point of departure for this thesis is Michael Power’s provocative proposition in his 1997 book The Audit Society (Power, 1997). There he states that auditing produces only reassurance. This thesis is an empirical ... -
Domestic violence law in Ghana: analysis of the actors and strategies involved in setting the public policy agenda
(Master thesis, 2009-09-01)Domestic Violence was seen as a private issue in the past in Ghana until the law on Domestic Violence was passed in 2007. However, a research by the Gender Studies and Human Right Documentation Centre in Accra in 1999 ... -
Don't send us your waste gases: Public attitudes toward international carbon dioxide transportation and storage in Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Large-scale deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is part of the pathways for limiting global warming to 1.5 °C and yet, negative public perceptions of CCS have challenged the realization of several projects in ... -
Don’t Touch My Constitution! Civil Society Resistance to Democratic Backsliding in Africa's Pluralist Regimes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Analyzing civil society resistance to elite-led democratic backsliding in Africa, the article argues that the non-militant, civil society-based transitions experienced in the 1990s left a legacy of a pro-democracy cleavage ... -
Education as a welfare matter? : Implementing national dropout policies in local institutional contexts
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-11-13)The overall focus of this thesis is the implementation of national policies at the intersection between welfare and education. My aim has been to further the connection between the field of education and welfare. A political ... -
Ei studie av endringsprosessen på sentralt hald i NAV frå perioden mars 2009 til mai 2010, som førte til nedlegginga av NAV Drift og utvikling.
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)Denne studien tek føre seg den fyste omorganiseringa i Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratet etter at NAV reforma vart innført i 2006. Studien er ei prosessuell tilnærming til studie av endring og ser på ein planlagt endringsprosess. ... -
Empowering locals through school governance: A case of secondary school boards in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2015-06-01)This study has been an attempt to address to what extent school boards as one of the user committees in education system are empowered and effective in accomplishing their responsibilities. The study had four specific ... -
Empowerment and effectiveness of school committees in Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2010-05-31)Empowerment of local communities and establishment of appropriate local level institutional frameworks have recently become important tenets for education management in the developing countries. Tanzania is also sailing ... -
Empowerment of School Committees and Parents in Tanzania: Delineating Existence of Opportunity, Its Use and Impact on School Decisions
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-12-05)Since the end of the twentieth century, public administration systems in developing countries have undergone significant transformation. This comes as a result of the global shift from centralized to decentralized political, ... -
En krise som lå i luften. En studie av Bergen kommunes håndtering av den ekstreme luftforurensningen i Bergen vinteren 2009/-10
(Master thesis, 2012-06-07)Vinteren 2009/-10 opplevde Bergen at luftkvaliteten ble svært dårlig. Uvanlige værforhold forverret Bergens permanente luftkvalitetsproblemer og bidro til å skape en ekstraordinær forurensningsepisode. Den dårlige ... -
En samordnet, effektivisert og brukertilpasset offentlig sektor? - En implementeringsstudie av Regjeringens IKT-politikk i perioden 2002-2009
(Master thesis, 2011-06-15)Studie av implementeringen av regjeringens IKT-politikk 2002-2009. De teoretiske verktøyene er Winters (2006) synteserte implementeringsmodell og et instrumentelt og institusjonelt perspektiv. -
Enabling Posthumous Medical Data Donation: A Plea for the Ethical Utilisation of Personal Health Data
(Philosophical Studies Series, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article argues that personal medical data should be made available for scientific research, by enabling and encouraging individuals to donate their medical records once deceased, in a way similar to how they can already ...