Blar i Department of Government på dokumenttype "Peer reviewed"
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Chain of negligence: analysis of the decision-making in the proposed sale of Bergen Engines to a Russian- controlled entity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The proposed sale of the Norwegian company Bergen Engines (BE) in 2020–2021 from Rolls Royce, UK, to Russian-controlled Transmashholding, listed for US sanctions, would have increased Russian military capability in a way ... -
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 ... -
Child welfare and future assessments – An analysis of discretionary decision-making in newborn removals in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09)This study explores a particularly wide discretionary space set for decision-making within the Norwegian welfare bureaucracy; care order decisions concerning newborns directly removed from the hospital by the child protection ... -
Child welfare removal of infants: Exploring policies and principles for decision-making in Nordic countries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This descriptive policy analysis examines the position of infants’ rights in the family service orientated child welfare systems of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden when being placed in out-of-home care. Its focus is ... -
Children’s and parents’ involvement in care order proceedings: a cross-national comparison of judicial decision-makers’ views and experiences
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-19)This paper presents the views of judicial decision-makers (n = 1794) in four child protection jurisdictions (England, Finland, Norway, and the USA (California)), about whether parents and children are provided with appropriate ... -
Children’s Capacities and Role in Matters of Great Significance for Them
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)How do decision-makers in the judiciary approach children’s capacities as set out in Article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child? Children in public care who cannot be reunified with their birth parents may be ... -
Children’s Rights in Norway. An Implementation Paradox?
(Book; Peer reviewed, 2019)Norway tops international indexes on children’s rights but continues to attract criticism for its level of compliance with the Convention of the Rights of Child. This book is the first scholarly attempt to address this ... -
Climate change risk perceptions and the problem of scale: Evidence from cross-national survey experiments
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)We examine the concept of spatial optimism, defined as the tendency for individuals to perceive climate change as less threatening to themselves than to people in geographically more distant locations. Existing studies ... -
The Co-evolution of Reputation Management, Governance Capacity, Legitimacy and Accountability in Crisis Managment
(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 ... -
Comparing population view´s on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This paper examines populous perspectives of the government’s responsibility to intervene in situations of possible parental neglect of children in England, Finland, Norway, and California (USA), and ask if institutional ... -
Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
(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 ... -
Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Women's sexual and reproductive rights are politicized worldwide, with the most contentious right being the right to safe, legal abortion. In Latin America, where one stands on the issue of abortion has become a central ... -
Conflictual Accountability: Behavioral Responses to Conflictual Accountability of Agencies
(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 ... -
Constitutionalising the Right to Water in Kenya and Slovenia: Domestic Drivers, Opportunity Structures, and Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The international norm development that in 2010 culminated with the UN Resolution on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation changed international law. To what extent did this influence the parallel legal developments ... -
The Contraction- and Detraction Thesis. A theory on power and values conflicts in democracies
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2005)The alternation of contraction and detraction processes in public administration is linked with long-term tendencies in the political system. From the last quarter of the 19th century the influence of the Storting (the ... -
Coordinating Against Work-Related Crime in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This article studies inter-agency coordination in a “wicked” policy area by examining the Norwegian model against work-related crime. The main research questions are: How does the Norwegian government work to ensure ... -
Coordinating wickedness: a comparative analysis of how Norway and Sweden organize for climate policies
(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 ... -
Coordination quality in central government – the case of Norway
(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
(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 ... -
Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries
(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 ...