-
Administrative coordination capacity; does the wickedness of policy areas matter?
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Ole Martin; Lægreid, Per (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Based on a survey of civil servants in the Norwegian central government, this article describes perceptions of coordination capacity and examines to what degree the variations in perceived coordinating capacity can be ... -
Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of inquiry commission reports in Norway and Sweden
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article examines the inquiry reports from the commissions charged with investigating government crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden. Such postcrises commissions have been a common feature ... -
Balancing Governance Capacity and Legitimacy: How the Norwegian Government Handled the COVID-19 Crisis as a High Performer
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This essay addresses how the Norwegian government has handled the coronavirus pandemic. Compared with many other countries, Norway has performed well in handling the crisis. This must be understood in the context of competent ... -
The Co-evolution of Reputation Management, Governance Capacity, Legitimacy and Accountability in Crisis Managment
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise H. (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)Dealing with crises is a main responsibility of government authorities. Crises strike at the core of democratic governance and challenge not only capacity but also legitimacy and accountability. They are a test of whether ... -
Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (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 ... -
Coordination quality in central government – the case of Norway
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (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
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (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 ... -
The Demise of an Agency Director – A Puzzling Saga of Political Control and Professional Autonomy.
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-02)This article aims at addressing the relationship between expertise and politics by examining a reorganization process of Statistics Norway. The puzzle is why a minor reorganization with low political salience, in a ... -
How to Balance Individual Rights and Societal Security? The View of Civil Servants
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)How do Norwegian government officials perceive the dilemma between liberty and security after the 2011 terrorist attacks? A survey from 2016 shows that the central government officials’ attitudes are rather similar to the ... -
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments
Christensen, Tom; Jensen, Mads Dagnis; Kluth, Michael; Kristinsson, Gunnar Helgi; Lynggaard, Kennet; Lægreid, Per; Niemikari, Risto; Pierre, Jon; Raunio, Tapio; Adolf Skúlason, Gústaf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Nordic states—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—exhibit similarities and differences. This article investigates the extent to which crisis policymaking ... -
Norway: A Pragmatic, Collaborative, and Legitimate Response
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Chapter, 2023)Norway has performed well in handling the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping both infections and deaths lower than in most other countries at the same time as it avoided the most intrusive regulatory measures. The government’s ... -
Scientization under pressure—The problematic role of expert bodies during the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article focuses on the role of experts in the Norwegian decision-making process in central government during the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on a structural-instrumental and a cultural ...