Blar i Department of Government på dokumenttype "Doctoral thesis"
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The AIDS Pandemic in Uganda : Social Capital and the Role of NGOs in Alleviating the Impact of HIV/AIDS
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-05-25)AIDS has a devastating impact on individuals and society. It is defined as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and it is a condition caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This condition occurs when people who ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Democratic Legitimacy in South Asia and Beyond : Does Culture Matter?
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-08-12)Demokrati har fått verdensomspennende offentlig aksept som et ideelt system for styring. Forskere om demokrati utfører mye forskning, inkludert undersøkelser, for å identifisere kildene til legitimitet for demokrati. Denne ... -
Den gode, hellige og disiplinerte kunsten. Forestillinger om kunstens autonomi i kulturpolitikk og kunstledelse
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-03-16)Hvordan står det til med kunsten i en tid da mange mener at økonomiske vurderingsmåter overtar på stadig flere samfunnsområder? Blir kunsten i takt med nyliberalismens økte gjennomslag underlagt markedets suksesskriterier? ... -
Den kommunale skolen. Det lokale skolefeltet i historisk perspektiv
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Den psykiatriske pasient: En begrepshistorisk studie
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-09-04)The psychiatric patient – a conceptual and historical study Throughout history, a variety of ways have been used to describe the psychiatric hospital patient and I want to examine the relationship between the new and the ... -
Discretion and the Demand for Reasons : Justifications for the Child’s Best Interests in Decisions on Adoption from Care in England and Norway
(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 ... -
Discretionary Decision-Making in Child Protection Care Order Cases : Exploring the Tensions between Rule of Law and Discretion
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-16)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg beslutninger som har stor innvirkning på enkeltindivider og som er nødvendige for å oppfylle statens plikt til å beskytte barn: omsorgsovertakelser av nyfødte barn. Profesjonelle beslutningstakere ... -
Does performance auditing matter? The government administration’s response to the performance auditing of the Norwegian Office of the Auditor General
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-05-28)The point of departure for this thesis is Michael Power’s provocative proposition in his 1997 book The Audit Society (Power, 1997). There he states that auditing produces only reassurance. This thesis is an empirical ... -
Education as a welfare matter? : Implementing national dropout policies in local institutional contexts
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-11-13)The overall focus of this thesis is the implementation of national policies at the intersection between welfare and education. My aim has been to further the connection between the field of education and welfare. A political ... -
Empowerment of School Committees and Parents in Tanzania: Delineating Existence of Opportunity, Its Use and Impact on School Decisions
(Doctoral thesis, 2014-12-05)Since the end of the twentieth century, public administration systems in developing countries have undergone significant transformation. This comes as a result of the global shift from centralized to decentralized political, ... -
Exploring Boundaries of Legitimate State Intervention : Adoption as a Child Protection Measure in Norway and the United States
(Doctoral thesis, 2020-09-30)This thesis asks how states form and justify policy as guardian of children’s right to protection from harm balanced against the rights and responsibilities of parents. To answer this, I have examined how Norway and the ... -
Foretak, management og medikrati. En sektorstudie av helseforetaksreform og ledelse i spesialisthelsetjenesten
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-02-15)This thesis consists of four articles that deal with the introduction of unitary management from2000 and health enterprise reform from 2002 in Norwegian specialist health care (hospitals).The first of the articles (”Knowledge, ... -
From Policy to Practice. A Study of Street-level bureaucracy and young clients in two rural communities
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Godhetsmakt. Verdikommisjonen – mellom politikk og moral
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Governing massified higher education : A cross-national comparative case study of policy instruments for relevance and quality
(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 ... -
Historical Institutions, Ideological Contestation, and International Pressures for Reform : Exploring Higher Education Governance in Turkey
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-09-19)Higher education systems and institutions worldwide are currently subjected to structural and policy reforms, which have sparked social scientific interest in analyzing reform processes in this specific policy sector. ...