The texts in this publication, Rome – a Temporary Deaf City, is based on fieldwork done in Rome, the summer of 2001, where the quadrennial Deaf World Games were held (now called Deaflympics). This fieldwork is the first ...

Upon the introduction of free choice of hospitals in January 2001, an internal market was formed among the public hospitals in Norway. The hospitals can attract patients through various means. Several studies show that the ...

The application of the principles of accounting for results in financial management reforms in Norwegian central government in the 1980s and 1990s is discussed in this paper. This discussion is based on two studies of how ...

In a study that focuses on how different values and considerations are attached weight to in organisations with different forms of association to the Norwegian central state, we found that economic values and considerations ...

In the 1990s, ‘globalisation’ entered the standard vocabulary in the social sciences. Based on readings of selected works on globalisation, this report gives a brief review of the history and the use of the term ‘globalisation’, ...

This paper is a discussion of the link between national welfare debates at the one hand and theories of globalisation at the other. Briefly, one can assume that by analysing how different arrangements are being discussed ...

Over the last decades higher education systems in much of the Western world have become more integrated. Whilst public authorities have had to develop strategies for how higher education systems should be organized, higher ...

This paper focuses on trust in government, meaning the parliament, the cabinet, the civil service, local councils, political parties and politicians. Trust is measured in terms of specific support - as indicated by people’s ...