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Implementation of the Right to Children's Participation:The Case of Two Selected Public Primary Schools in Kampala District in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2017-06-27)The right to children’s participation in Uganda, recently got attention in 2008 when the Uganda National Child Participation Guide (UNCPG) was published. This resulted from Uganda ratifying the United Nations Convention ... -
Implementing Digital Transformations in Higher Education Following COVID-19: A Norwegian Case Study
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)Drawing on the theory and conceptualizations of organizational readiness for change and taking a more critical approach to organizational readiness that takes seriously actors’ different and sometimes conflicting understandings ... -
In peace and war: Birth control and population policies in Norway (1930-1945)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)While Norway in the 1930s had relatively liberal policies with regard to access to contraceptives, and an increasing number of legal abortions were carried out, the regime that was installed after occupation in 1940 reined ... -
In the Best Interest of the Child? Justifying Decisions on Adoption from Care in the Norwegian Supreme Court
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)By utilising theories of deliberation and rational argumentation, this article critically analyses the Norwegian Supreme Court’s best interest decisions in four judgments on adoption from care. How does the Supreme Court ... -
Influence and Legitimacy: Civil Society Organizations and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
(Master thesis, 2017-06-27)The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a UN Treaty body with the mandate to assess the State parties’ adherence to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This assessment is carried out in a periodic reporting ... -
Innovating the collection of open-ended answers: The linguistic and content characteristics of written and oral answers to political attitude questions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The rapid increase in smartphone surveys and technological developments open novel opportunities for collecting survey answers. One of these opportunities is the use of open-ended questions with requests for oral instead ... -
Institutional and political constraints to planning sustainable settlements in suburban municipalities case of Tallinn, Estonia
(Master thesis, 2007)This thesis addresses the recent phenomenon of urban sprawl in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia,and tries to find its institutional and political reasons. Urban sprawl is seen as a type ofsuburbanization which lacks ... -
Institutional Logics, Organizational Action, and Change in Zambian Public Accountability Organizations
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-02-15)Public organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa have been perceived as schizophrenic and guided by incompatible ideas deriving from their local norms, colonial histories, and development paradigms, which is thought to constrain ... -
Institutionalization challenges of performance appraisal system in Tanzanian local government authorities
(Master thesis, 2012-06-05)Improving the service provision of the public sector has been the struggle of many developing countries for the past two decades. Tanzania is also in the same endeavor where it aims to improve the performance of the public ... -
Institutionalization of performance appraisal system: A case study of the Maldivian public Service
(Master thesis, 2005)The public sector in most countries is going through profound restructuring in the face of environmental constraints that force the sector to become more efficient and effective. In this respect, one of the most popular ... -
The Integration of Refugees in Norway: Reflection from the Eritrean Refugees in Two Municipalities
(Master thesis, 2017)The influx of refugees into Europe, Scandinavia, and Norway and the challenges that came along on how to integrate them into the host communities has been at the front-and-center of public and media debates in recent years. ... -
Internasjonaliseringsstrategier og praksis: En komparativ casestudie av Det juridiske fakultet på UiB og UiO
(Master thesis, 2018-03-07)Internasjonalisering et villet politisk middel for å heve kvaliteten på norsk høyere utdanning. Gjennom en rekke offentlige dokumenter har myndighetene satt seg mål å utvikle akademia og tilby utdanning med god kvalitet ... -
International Perspectives on Child-responsive Courts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Child friendly justice and access to justice for children are explicit concerns for the European Union, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Council of Europe and the Child Rights International Network. This study ... -
International public administration on the tip of the tongue: language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in the Economic Community of West African States
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recent scholarship shows increasing interest in gender, ethnic or national representation within regional and international organizations. In contrast, language as a criterion of representation has rarely been scrutinized. ... -
Internettbruk i Kongsberg kommune
(Master thesis, 2003)Denne oppgaven vil handle om hvordan Kongsberg kommune som en av flere forsøkskommuner, har tatt i bruk Internett for blant annet å forsøke å øke det politiske engasjementet blant innbyggerne i kommunen. Internettdiskusjonen ... -
Intranett - en studie av hvordan ansatte i en offentlig organisasjon bruker intranett
(Master thesis, 2003)Jeg vil i denne studien ta for meg tre delproblemstillinger: I. Hvordan bruker ansatte intranett? II. Hvilken handlingslogikk karakteriserer bruken? III. Og hva kan forklare variasjoner i bruk av handlingslogikkene? ... -
An Investigation Into the Mediating Role of Inter-organisational Coordination Towards Refugee Protection: A Case Study of Nakivale Refugee Settlement Uganda
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)This study examines the role of Inter-Organizational Coordination (IOC) towards refugee protection in Nakivale settlement located in Isingiro district in Uganda. Coordination takes place when organizations work together ... -
The Invisible Child. A Comparative Study of Newborn Removal Judgments from a Child Equality Perspective (CEP)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We know little about how children are portrayed in care order cases. Using a Child Equality Perspective (cep), which demands the child’s presence in proceedings even for children who are not capable of partaking fully in ... -
Is the Europe of Knowledge the talk of the town? Exploring how members of the European Parliament refer to higher education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)While the European Parliament is increasingly involved in EU governance, its role in policy developments in domains of strategic importance for the EU has not been the focus of many studies. In this article, we analyse a ...