• Accountability and interorganizational collaboration within the state 

  Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  This article discusses collaborative arrangements within the state and looks at their consequences for democratic accountability in networked governance involving public actors at different levels and in different policy ...

• Creating gender exceptionalism: The role of global indexes 

  Kirkebø, Tori Loven; Langford, Malcolm Stroud; Byrkjeflot, Haldor (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 ...

• Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies 

  Schillemans, Thomas; Overman, Sjors; Fawcett, Paul; Flinders, Matthew; Fredriksson, Magnus; Lægreid, Per; Maggetti, Martino; Papadopoulos, Yannis; Rubecksen, Kristin; Rykkja, Lise H.; Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg; Smullen, Amanda; Verhoest, Koen; Wood, Matthew (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 ...

• Self-censorship in using social media in Bangladesh: Does regime structure matter? 

  Nughat, Sabrina (Master thesis, 2021-12-01)

  Democratic governance in Bangladesh faces numerous challenges along with military interruptions since after independence in 1971. Dictatorship and martial laws were well established in the country up until 1991 when democracy ...

• Shame On You! Unpacking the Individual and Organizational Implications of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization 

  Kvåle, Gro; Murdoch, Zuzana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  How and when does engagement with a stigmatized organization lead to the transfer of its stigma to organizations and individuals associating with it? To answer this question, we conduct an inductive study of the process ...

• Discretion and the Demand for Reasons : Justifications for the Child’s Best Interests in Decisions on Adoption from Care in England and Norway 

  Helland, Hege Beate Stein (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 ...

• Justifying interventions in Norwegian child protection - an analysis of cases of violence in migrant and non-migrant families 

  Løvlie, Audun Gabriel; Skivenes, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  How are decisions about care orders of children in cases about violence justified? What important accounts are considered? In an in-depth analysis of 94 written care order decisions from the Norwegian County Boards, we ...

• Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. 

  Lien, Frank Robert (Master thesis, 2014-09-17)

  The main purpose of the research was to investigate whether the Primary Education Development Plan (PEDP I and II) had achieved the objective of providing quality education in Tanzania. In order to do this the study aimed ...

• Political (Over)Representation of Public Sector Employees and the Double-Motive Hypothesis: Evidence from Norwegian Register Data (2007-2019) 

  Geys, Benny; Murdoch, Zuzana; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Countries have widely diverging regulations regarding the eligibility of public sector employees for political office, and the stringency of such regulations remains fiercely debated. Building on a demand and supply model ...

• Innovasjon og utvikling i energimarkedet- En studie av markedet for solceller i Bergensregionen 

  Kalberg, Kjersti Vatnekvam (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  Solcellepaneler er har begynt å bli mer og mer vanlig som strømproduksjon i flere husholdninger. Som et resultat av økt fokus på grønn omstilling, økt energibehov og ansvarlige forbrukere, har total mengde av installerte ...

• Forebygging og Frivillighet - En studie av forholdet mellom offentlig- og tredjesektor i arbeid med forebygging av radikalisering og voldelig ekstremisme i tre norske kommuner 

  Tufte, Thea (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  Vold som virkemiddel for å fremme politiske, ideologiske eller religiøse mål bryter med grunnleggende verdier, truer den enkeltes og samfunnets sikkerhet. Forebygging er sentralt for å sikre de grunnleggende verdiene. ...

• EUs funksjon som en regulatorisk styringsagent av norsk skipsfartsnæring mellom 1994 og 2020 

  Skog, Håkon Øyan (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  Tilbake i 1994 trådte EØS-avtalen i kraft og Norge ble dermed en del av EUs indre marked. Utenom de økonomiske konsekvensene EØS-avtalen skulle få for Norges næringsliv, viser denne avhandlingen til hvilke juridiske og ...

• The Norwegian vocational college: heterogenous aggregate of intermediate educations, or a parallel pillar to higher academic education? 

  Høst, Håkon; Michelsen, Svein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  For long the Norwegian vocational college[1] was placed in the periphery of general system formation policies in education and remained a residual in technical education, based on praxis values and local support from ...

• Traust, grå og kommunal? - En casestudie av omdømmebygging i tre distriktskommuner etter deltagelse på Distriktssenteret sin omdømmeskole. 

  Vetlesand, Vilde Valvatne (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  Denne masteroppgaven har analysert hvordan tre distriktskommuner har arbeidet med omdømmebygging etter deltagelse på Distriktssenteret sin omdømmeskole. De tre kommunene som blir undersøkt i denne oppgaven er Kvinesdal ...

• Vindkraft og Motkraft. En studie av norsk vindkraftmotstand 

  Røtnes, Magnus Nordal (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  Denne studien forsker på norsk vindkraftmotstand. Vindkraft har vært et av de mer intense debattemaene de siste årene, og fra et statsvitenskapelig perspektiv er det interessant å se på hvorfor et klimatiltak som vindkraft ...

• Statlig eierskap og bedrifters samfunnsansvar med tanke på klima og miljø- Nyliberalismens tilbakegang? 

  Ånestad, Simon (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  I denne masteroppgaven har jeg skrevet om hvordan den norske stat benytter sitt eierskap i heleide og deleide bedrifter for å få dem til å vise samfunnsansvar (CSR) med tanke på klima og miljø. Min problemstilling og ...

• Preparing for the Unknown Crisis - A Case Study on Norway’s Pandemic Preparedness before the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic Outbreak 

  Knutsen, Anniken Katrine (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  The aim of this master thesis is to answer the following research question, ‘how have previous large-scale pandemic or epidemic outbreaks contributed to shaping the current crisis management and pandemic preparedness plans ...

• Public Trust and Healthcare Institutions: A Quantitative Analysis in Pakistani Healthcare Contexts 

  Javed, Hina (Master thesis, 2021-08-02)

  This paper presents a case for generalizing Seok-Eun Kim’s model of public trust to healthcare institutions. The model consists of five variables that together conceptualize trustworthiness: credible commitment, benevolence, ...

• Hvordan et eksternt sjokk har påvirket implementeringen av en reform i Norge Institutt for administrasjon og organisasjonsvitenskap En casestudie av implementeringen av Leve hele livet-reformen under Covid-19-pandemien 

  Holm-Larsen, Elise Birkeland (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  Masteroppgaven søker å svare på spørsmålet: Hvordan kan et eksternt sjokk påvirke implementeringen av en reform på et kommunalt nivå i Norge, og hvordan påvirker dette de involverte aktørene? For å svare på dette ...

• Citizens Trust in Political institutions in Ghana: Do Legitimacy and Social Capital matter? 

  Appiah, Jeffrey Acheampong (Master thesis, 2021-07-01)

  The study adopts cultural and institutional or performance-based theories to examine the impact of social capital and legitimacy variables on citizens’ trust in their political institutions. The dependent variable was ...

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