• Tipping the scales: The power of parental commitment in decisions on adoption from care 

  Helland, Hege Beate Stein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  This article studies how three groups of professional decision-makers – child welfare workers, experts on children and judges – exercise discretion in decisions on adoption from care in the Norwegian child welfare system. ...

• Social Research Methods: Migration in Perspective 

  Ullah, AKM Ahsan; Hossain, Md Akram; Azizuddin, Mohammad; Nawaz, Faraha (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Migration specific methodologies for research have not yet emerged in a unified manner; hence, a void in scholarship persists which has resulted in the growing dilemmas in conducting research on migrant populations. The ...

• Eksperters roller i et demokrati 

  Iversen, Synne Hopland (Master thesis, 2021-06-01)

  Denne oppgaven tar sikte på å belyse spørsmål rundt bruken av eksperter i norsk politikk. Problemstillingen for oppgaven er: hvordan ble eksperter brukt under arbeidet med kommunereformen? I tillegg til den overordnede ...

• Terra Incognita - A comparative study of Vik and Hemnes and the strategies to rebuild trust after the Terra-scandal 

  Kvinlaug, Terje-André (Master thesis, 2021-06-01)

  This master thesis aims to answer the following research question: To what extent did Vik and Hemnes develop a strategy to rebuild trust after the Terra-scandal and what are the differences in these potential strategies ...

• Engineering learning outcomes: Translations of a policy instrument in a disciplinary context in Nordic higher education 

  Kvilhaugsvik, Hanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Learning outcomes have become a central feature in European higher education and are intended to create a plethora of change concerning teaching, relevance, quality and transparency. However, there have been few studies ...

• Governing massified higher education : A cross-national comparative case study of policy instruments for relevance and quality 

  Kvilhaugsvik, Hanne (Doctoral thesis, 2021-06-16)

  Enrolment in higher education has increased drastically in the past decades, changing higher education from an elite phenomenon to a norm, or right, for major parts of the population. This entails a shift in higher education ...

• Bridging higher education and the world of work? Employer panels in Nordic university governance 

  Kvilhaugsvik, Hanne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  Universities are increasingly expected to cooperate with society and the world of work to ensure relevant higher education. One example is the introduction of mandated employer panels, where external members are brought ...

• International public administration on the tip of the tongue: language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in the Economic Community of West African States 

  Murdoch, Zuzana; Gänzle, Stefan; Gravier, Magali (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. ...

• Services and support for mothers and newborn babies in vulnerable situations: A study of eight European jurisdictions 

  Luhamaa, Katre; McEwan-Strand, Amy; Ruiken, Barbara; Skivenes, Marit; Wingens, Florian A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  European countries have a legal obligation to provide services to vulnerable families, and children must not be removed from their parents’ care unless no other viable measures are available. This paper examines whether ...

• How culture may nurture institutional trust: Some empirical insights from Bangladesh and Nepal 

  Jamil, Ishtiaq; Baniamin, Hasan Muhammad (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-06)

  Motivation Most studies of the normative roots of political trust argue that they stem from policy performance rather than from cultural orientation. That sits at odds with the observation that institutional trust—that ...

• Coordinating wickedness: a comparative analysis of how Norway and Sweden organize for climate policies 

  Neby, Simon; Zannakis, Mathias (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 ...

• Nordic Administrative Collaboration: Scope, Predictors and Effects on Policy Design and Administrative Reform Measures 

  Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-03)

  This article examines whether Nordic administrative collaboration is still ‘alive and kicking,’ or whether it has been marginalized by increased integration into Europe and strong international reform trajectories. We ...

• 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 ...

• Understanding Felt Accountability: The institutional antecedents of the felt accountability of agency-CEO's to central government 

  Schillemans, Thomas; Overman, Sjors; Fawcett, Paul; Flinders, M; Fredriksson, Magnus; Lægreid, Per; Maggetti, Martino; Papadopoulous, Yannis; Rubecksen, Kristin; Rykkja, Lise H.; Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg; Smullen, Amanda; Wood, Matt (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The literature on autonomous public agencies often adopts a top‐down approach, focusing on the means with which those agencies can be steered and controlled. This article opens up the black box of the agencies and zooms ...

• Legitimacy Crises and the Temporal Dynamics of Bureaucratic Representation 

  Murdoch, Zuzana; Connolly, Sara Jane; Kassim, Hussein; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)

  The representation of specific groups and social interests within (or by) the civil service has long been a concern of public administration scholarship. Yet, much of this literature focuses on representation at a single ...

• The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway: The periphery strikes again 

  Stein, Jonas; Folkestad, Bjarte; Christensen, Dag Arne; Aars, Jacob (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway took place against the backdrop of a historical local and regional amalgamation reform initiated by the Conservative-led government in 2014. We find six key outcomes from ...

• Follow the Leader? Leader Succession and Staff Attitudes in Public Sector Organizations 

  Geys, Benny; Connolly, Sara Jane; Kassim, Hussein; Murdoch, Zuzana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Public sector organizations face regular turnover in top leadership positions. Yet little is known about how such changes affect staff attitudes. The authors argue that top leader succession may influence staff attitudes, ...

• Family Life for Children in State Care An Analysis of the European Court of Human Rights’ Reasoning on Adoption Without Consent 

  Breen, Claire; Krutzinna, Jenny; Luhamaa, Katre; Skivenes, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  This paper examines what set of familial circumstances allow for the justifiable interference with the right to respect for family life under Article 8, echr. We analyse all the Courts’ judgments on adoptions from care to ...

• Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries 

  Helland, Hege Beate Stein; Skivenes, Marit; Burns, Kenneth; Križ, Katrin; Segado Sánchez-Cabezudo, Sagrario; Strömpl, Judit (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 ...

• Adopsjon eller offentlig omsorg? En studie av befolkningens syn på adopsjon som tiltak i barnevernet 

  Helland, Hege Beate Stein; Pedersen, Siri Hansen; Skivenes, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)

  Barnevernet kan gjennomføre adopsjoner av fosterbarn uten biologiske foreldres samtykke. Dette representerer en betydelig utøvelse av statlig makt, og norsk rett krever særlig tungtveiende grunner for å tillate adopsjon. ...

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