Browsing Department of Government by Document Types "Doctoral thesis"
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Institutional Logics, Organizational Action, and Change in Zambian Public Accountability Organizations
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-02-15)Public organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa have been perceived as schizophrenic and guided by incompatible ideas deriving from their local norms, colonial histories, and development paradigms, which is thought to constrain ... -
Juridification of Health Care The Act on Patients’ Rights and Clinical Judgment
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-08-17)This thesis explores how the patients’ right to information and participation (the RTIP) is interpreted by the Norwegian Directorate of Health, and how the corresponding legal regulations and clinical practice are assessed ... -
Lost in translation : Mental health professional`s understanding of care pathways and its implications for policy construction and implementation
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-06)Denne avhandlingen har som siktemål å undersøke profesjonelle aktører innen psykisk helse sin forståelse av pakkeforløp, og hvordan denne forståelsen påvirket konstruksjonen samt implementering av pakkeforløp til bruk i ... -
Matkontroll i Europa - en studie av regulering i fem europeiske land og EU
(Doctoral thesis, 2008-05-19)The thesis analyzes and identifies central characteristics of food safety regulation in Europe. Itconsists of four separate articles and a synthesizing introduction. The first article explores theorigins and development ... -
Multifaglig ledelse – Hybridisering i sykehusledelse etter NPM-reformer
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-06-18)The primary concern in this paper is to understand how reforms, characterized by New Public Management, NPM, affect management in hospitals. This would be considered in the light of theories of management where the term ... -
Organizing for naval operations: Implementing mission command on board the Nansen-class frigates
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-05-08)The motivation for this dissertation was an empirical one; how to design an effective organization for the new state-of-the art Nansen-class frigates. There is, however, no official tool for designing and diagnosing the ... -
Parenthood in the (Child) Welfare State : Legitimation of care orders and care rights in Norway
(Doctoral thesis, 2022-11-04)Denne avhandlingen utforsker et spesifikt ‘svart hull’ i det norske velferdsdemokratiet, nemlig alvorlige inngrep i familien for å beskytte barn. Legitimering av slike inngrep studeres gjennom argumentene til de to partene ... -
Performance appraisal in Uganda’s civil service: Does administrative culture matter?
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-02-19)This study explores administrative culture and examines its impact on the reform ofperformance appraisal in Uganda’s civil service, an area which has received littleattention from researchers. It reveals that Uganda’s ... -
Police Coordination in Crises. Who knew what, when, where and why in managing the terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøya in 2011?
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-03-29)Why did not the police mobilize more capacities more swiftly on 22 July, 2011? And why was there a lack of coordination by the police in its response to the two terrorist attacks (“22/7”)? Building on a unique and rich ... -
Relationships among Governance Quality, Institutional Performance, and (Dis)Trust: Trends and Tensions: A Quest for Critical Ingredients of Institutional Trust
(Doctoral thesis, 2019-06-14)This dissertation analyzes institutional trust, first, in the three South Asian countries of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and then in 32 African countries. These countries were chosen in order to explore why citizens ... -
Sårbar, suveren og ansvarlig. Kvinners fortellinger om fosterdiagnostikk og selektiv abort.
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-05-28)Vulnerable, sovereign and responsible.Women’s stories about prenatal diagnostics and selective abortion.“In Norway we make sure that some children with Downs’s syndrome are born, and thattheir mothers are younger than 38 ... -
Styring gjennom nettverk. Koordinering, ansvarliggjøring og institusjonalisering av styringsnettverk i norske byregioner
(Doctoral thesis, 2011-10-14)In recent years the city region has developed as an arena for policy development. In this arenadifferent interests and values are coordinated in order to solve complex problems. InNorwegian city regions this is especially ... -
The Fellowship of Acceptable State Interventions : Knowledge, Norms, and Justifications in Norwegian Child Protection Care Order Cases
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-03-31)I denne avhandlingen undersøker jeg statlige ingrep i familien, og spør hvordan statlige inngrep i familien begrunnes, hva egenskapene og kvalitetene ved disse begrunnelsene er, og hva den norske befolkningens holdninger ... -
Tjenestemannsorganisasjoner og nasjonal forvaltningspolitikk: Modernisering med en hånd på rattet og en fot på bremsen?
(Doctoral thesis, 2006-06-16)This study is inspired by an international school of research that is theoreticallyinformed and empirical oriented, combining political science and organization theory.The theme of the study is the relationship between the ... -
Tyske sykehusleger i Norge i et institusjonelt perspektiv
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-09-06)Sammendrag Ifølge litteraturen er institusjonelle logikker sosialt konstruert av institusjonelle aktører, kan reproduseres eller endres gjennom politiske beslutninger og fungerer som institusjonell mal for stater, ... -
Understanding the left-behind: Electoral support and views on redistribution
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-30)I dei seinare åra har statsvitskapen retta søkelyset mot grupper som kjem dårlegare ut i den post-industrielle samfunnsutviklinga. Desse gruppene – såkalla «left-behinds» – sakkar meir akterut enn andre når samfunnet vert ... -
The Unfeasibility of Professionalization of Primary-school Teachers in Bangladesh. An analysis of the actors and factors, 1971 - 2001
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-06-22)Objectives of the Study:The main purposes of this study are to obtain a clearer understanding of the characteristics ofprimary teaching occupation in Bangladesh and to examine the development of thisoccupational group over ... -
"Utdanningsreformer som moderniseringsoffensiv. En studie av hjelpepleieryrkets rekruttering og dannelseshistorie, 1960 - 2006."
(Doctoral thesis, 2007-03-02)The dissertation describes and analyses how central education reforms through a period ofmore than 40 years influences on a particular field of vocational education and work,auxiliary nursing. The reforms do not meet a ... -
Welfare collaboration in Norway : Something old, something new, something borrowed, something to pursue?
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-05-11)I de senere år har innovasjon i offentlig sektor fått økt oppmerksomhet både på nasjonale så vel som internasjonale dagsordener. Den økte oppmerksomheten kan knyttes til økende samfunnsmessige, økonomiske og politiske ...