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A comparative analysis of the Child Protection Systems in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania and Russia
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Comparing population view´s on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper examines populous perspectives of the government’s responsibility to intervene in situations of possible parental neglect of children in England, Finland, Norway, and California (USA), and ask if institutional ... -
Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-10-07)This article provides a greater understanding of hybrid public administration. Different generations of public sector reforms have accentuated hybrid and complex features of public organizations, resulting in multiple-layer ... -
Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Women's sexual and reproductive rights are politicized worldwide, with the most contentious right being the right to safe, legal abortion. In Latin America, where one stands on the issue of abortion has become a central ... -
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In contemporary public governance, leaders of public organizations are faced with multiple, and oftentimes conflictual, accountability claims. Drawing upon a survey of CEO’s of agencies in seven countries, we explore whether ... -
Constitutionalising the Right to Water in Kenya and Slovenia: Domestic Drivers, Opportunity Structures, and Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The international norm development that in 2010 culminated with the UN Resolution on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation changed international law. To what extent did this influence the parallel legal developments ... -
The Contraction- and Detraction Thesis. A theory on power and values conflicts in democracies
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2005)The alternation of contraction and detraction processes in public administration is linked with long-term tendencies in the political system. From the last quarter of the 19th century the influence of the Storting (the ... -
Coordinating Against Work-Related Crime in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article studies inter-agency coordination in a “wicked” policy area by examining the Norwegian model against work-related crime. The main research questions are: How does the Norwegian government work to ensure ... -
Coordinating wickedness: a comparative analysis of how Norway and Sweden organize for climate policies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-29)Through the lenses of “wicked policy problems” this article compares how Norway and Sweden organize for climate policies and analyzes the coordination challenges encountered by the two countries. Both countries’ policy ... -
Coordination quality in central government – the case of Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article focuses on perceived coordination quality among Norwegian civil servants. It explains how they assess the quality of coordination in their own field of work along different dimensions. To what degree have such ... -
The coronavirus crisis—crisis communication, meaning-making, and reputation management
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article addresses the Norwegian government’s meaning-making, crises communication and reputation management during the Corona pandemic crisis. It argues that reputation management can be seen as a combination of ... -
Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study, which draws upon representative survey data of the populations of Austria (n = 1000), Estonia (n = 1069), Ireland (n = 1000), Norway (n = 1002) and Spain (n = 1000), compares population attitudes towards corporal ... -
Counterterrorism Policies and Attitudes Towards Out-Groups: Evidence from a Survey Experiment on Citizens’ Attitudes Towards Wiretapping
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Terrorism often leads to increased stigmatization of groups perceived as “out-groups”. We test two versions of out-group theory and ask whether citizens clearly distinguish between radical Muslims and Muslims in general, ... -
Creating gender exceptionalism: The role of global indexes
(Chapter, 2021)In this chapter, the authors examine critically the rise of global indexes and ask how they helped build and shape the idea of Nordic gender exceptionalism, as the region's members moved from being Cold War-era 'middle way ... -
Creating the "University experience": promotional and multimodal video productions in Scandinavian higher education
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Promotional videos produced by higher education institutions (HEIs) are an important medium for introducing new generations of students to HEIs and communicating their roles and purposes to the outside world. Despite the ... -
Cultural code concept in contemporary world.
(Master thesis, 2008-05-30)Cultural code - a term, which describes a self-actualized human mentality - a unity of value orientations, socio-normative establishments (routines, rituals, heroes, symbols), fundamental features of characteristics specific ... -
Decentralizing environmental policy implementation: The Case of the Zambian national policy on environment
(Master thesis, 2012-05-29)The NPE placing emphasis on facilitating environmental integration, decentralization, community participation and privatization and further developement, is close to the end of its intended implementation phase. This study ... -
Defending parenthood: A look at parents' legal argumentation in Norwegian care order appeal proceedings
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-08)This paper examines parents' legal argumentation in 15 appealed care order (child removal) cases in one Norwegian district court, asking on what grounds parents appeal their case. I investigate the pragmatic, ethical, and ... -
Deliberasjon og retorikk i klimadiskursen i Europaparlamentet
(Master thesis, 2009-06-01)Denne studien tar sikte på å analysere tre debatter i Europaparlamentet, som fant sted i perioden 1992-2007, med klimapolitikk som tema. Arbeidet tar utgangspunkt i to teoretiske perspektiver: et deliberativt og et retorisk. ...