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Balancing Governance Capacity and Legitimacy: How the Norwegian Government Handled the COVID-19 Crisis as a High Performer
(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 ... -
Barn på tvang. Nyere styringstrender og konkurrerende diskurser i institusjonsbarnevernet
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-22)Hvordan vi gir mening til våre erfaringer, får betydning for hva som oppfattes som realitet, og dermed hvordan vi håndterer de situasjoner vi står i. I denne avhandlingen rettes oppmerksomheten mot hvordan barn gir mening ... -
Beredskap tatt av vinden? - Ein casestudie av handteringa av stormen "Dagmar" i Sogn og fjordane
(Master thesis, 2013-06-13)I romjula 2011 slo ekstremveret «Dagmar» innover Vestlandet. Stormen råka Norge, Sverige og Finland den 25. og 26. desember. Dagmar var særleg kraftig og gjorde størst skade på Vestlandet. Den største konsekvensen av stormen ... -
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place". The Contradictory Roles of Organizations involved in Housing Delivery in South African Informal Settlements
(Master thesis, 2013-06-14)While considerable strides have been made in South Africa in addressing the skewed patterns of access to adequate shelter among its citizens, significant challenges lie ahead. Since the first democratic elections of 1994 ... -
Between diverging discourses of the child: juveniles’ self-construction in coercive residential care
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Based on a qualitative study, this article explores how Norwegian juveniles construct themselves through stories of everyday life in coercive residential care and how this is related to diverging discourses of the child’s ... -
Bindetegnsuniversitetene - en studie av kvalitetsbegrepets rolle i universitetenes profilering og posisjonering i det nye universitetslandskapet
(Master thesis, 2011-12-01)Denne oppgaven har som mål å undersøke hvilken rolle kvalitet spiller i universitetenes selvprofilering og posisjonering innenfor institusjonslandskapet de er en del av. Det er en casestudie, hvor kvalitetsbegrepet hos ... -
”Bopliktsaken” i Tvedestrand: En studie av en lokalpolitisk beslutningsprosess
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Bortenfor horisonten. ”Enemy Combatant” og den sikkerhetspolitiske diskurs
(Master thesis, 2007)Denne masteroppgaven handler om begrepet "enemy combatant", dens mulighetsbetingelser og betydning i den amerikanske sikkerhetspolitiske diskursen og den globale krigen mot terror. Siktemålet er å demonstrere at det er i ... -
Bridging higher education and the world of work? Employer panels in Nordic university governance
(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 ... -
Building a sector reputation: the strategic communication of national higher education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)What characterises strategic communication aimed at building the reputation of an entire public subsector? This is the main question for this study, pursued through content analysis of one-stop web portals for national ... -
BUREAUCRATIC AUTONOMY: INDEPENDENCE OF DONOR FUNDED BUREAUCRATS
(Master thesis, 2020-06-11)A scan through available political science and public administration literature points to a global upsurge in studies on bureaucratic autonomy. The predominant focus of most of these studies have been to either establish ... -
Canada - en innvandringspolitisk suksesshistorie?
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Carbon Pricing and Induced Small Business Innovation in California: How the Global Warming Solutions Act Impacted Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Green Energy
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)This is a study of the California Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) and the related laws passed to support it. The GWSA established a whole-economy cap on greenhouse gas emissions and established a series of emissions ... -
Care order cases in the European Court of Human Rights - Parents' vs. children's rights
(Master thesis, 2019-06-20)At present date, 47 States have committed to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The Convention aims to give all humans some basic human rights. Children are however not explicitly mentioned. The European Court ... -
The challenge of transboundary coordination: The case of the Norwegian police and military
(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 ... -
Challenges and Prospects of Implementing Citizen’s Charter: A Study of Panchkula (Haryana) Municipal Council in India
(Master thesis, 2005)The Citizen’s Charter has been adopted as a device by the Government of India to induce clienthis research primarily used a qualitative perspective, attempting to discern the meaning ofhe empirical evidence suggests that ... -
Challenges of Fiscal Desentralization Policy in the Akuapem South District of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2008)The Government of Ghana introduced the decentralization concept in 1988 as part of hereffort/determination to make local government administration autonomous in Ghana. Themain aim of the concept was to make the people at ... -
Challenges of Implementing Peace Accord: The Case of Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHTPA) in Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHTPA) was designed to maintain peace and security in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region. The study examines the extent of policy output of the CHTPA implementation in terms ... -
The challenges of women participation in local governance: the case of Accra and Tamale metropolitan assemblies
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)The woman in Ghana hews the wood, carries the water, satisfies the man, produces and takes care of the child to continue the family tree and manages all house chores. All these are justifications that she can be put in a ... -
Changes in funding of higher education and research: stronger governmental steering and organisational control of higher education institutions and academic behaviour?
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-06-19)Funding of higher education and research has experienced substantial changes in the last decades. Although there is variation across European countries, a stronger competitive element increasingly characterises higher ...