Browsing Department of Government by Author "Lægreid, Per"
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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 ... -
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 challenge of transboundary coordination: The case of the Norwegian police and military
Hjellum, Magnus Sirnes; Lægreid, Per (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article examines how the transboundary coordination capacity between the military and the police has changed since the terrorist attacks in Norway in 2011. We address changes in the arrangements that regulate how the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Governing and Organizing for Crisis Management and Civil Protection: Advancing an Important but Neglected Research Field
Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise H. (Journal article, 2019) -
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 Impact of Terrorism on Civil Servants: Longitudinal Evidence from the 22 July 2011 Attack in Norway
Geys, Benny; Lægreid, Per; Murdoch, Zuzana; Trondal, Jarle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Building on a growing literature assessing the societal impact of terrorism, this article analyzes whether and how a terror attack targeting public institutions affects civil servants in their day-to-day work. This is an ... -
Just keep silent… Defensive silence as a reaction to successive structural reforms
Wynen, Jan; Kleizen, Bjørn; Verhoest, Koen; Lægreid, Per; Rolland, Vidar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Employees frequently have ideas and opinions on the execution of tasks or on the organization itself. Yet, sometimes employees remain silent and withhold this valuable input from their organizations because they fear ... -
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 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 ... -
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study examines vaccine allocation policy during the COVID-19 pandemic by applying a hierarchical, a negotiation, and a cultural perspective. It addresses how vaccine allocation principles under conditions of scarcity ... -
Public sector accountability styles in Europe comparing accountability and control of agencies in the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland and the UK
Lægreid, Per; Schillemans, Thomas; Overman, Sjors; Wood, Matthew; Flinders, Matthew; Papadopoulos, Yannis; Maggetti, Martino (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper develops and applies the concept of accountability styles for analyzing and comparing accountability practices in different countries. This is relevant as there is considerable scholarship on public sector ...