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The Impact of Terrorism on Civil Servants: Longitudinal Evidence from the 22 July 2011 Attack in Norway
(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 ... -
Implementation of citizen's charter and improving municipal services in Nepal: myth or reality?
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)The citizen's charter, as one of the quality assurance strategies in the public sector put forward by New Public Management theorists, has been introduced in Nepal with the view of improving the quality of governmental ... -
The Implementation of Civil Service Reforms in Tanzania, 1991-2000
(Master thesis, 2006)The present thesis deals with civil service reforms implemented in Tanzania in between 1991-2000. It aims at assessing whether the reforms achieved the intended objectives of “smaller, affordable, well compensated, efficient ... -
Implementation of e-government policy in Nepal: How far it is successful!
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)Abstract E-government becomes a powerful tool to inform, interact, transact and network thereby contributing leaner, transparent and cost-effective government in the process of transformation. It can be seen as an important ... -
Implementation of Public Policies at Local Level in Uganda. A Case Study of National Agrikultural Advisory Services (NAADS) in Mukono District Local Government
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)The Government of Uganda's NAADS policy is the main overarching policy in the agricultural sector in the country. With implementation of NAADS in all 111 districts in the country, the government sought to increase accessibility ... -
Implementation of public policy at primary school level in Uganda: a case of universal primary education in Lugusulu Sub County in Sembabule District
(Master thesis, 2017-06-15)The Government of Uganda's Universal Primary Education policy is the main overlapping policy in the educational sector in the whole country. With implementation of UPE in all 111 districts in the country and one city (the ... -
Implementation of public policy at the local level in Ghana: The Case of National Health Insurance Scheme in Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District
(Master thesis, 2011-06-01)Abstract Many developing countries have made efforts at improving welfare of their people by adopting number of health reforms, Ghana was not an exception in that endeavour. Many governments in Ghana adopted number of ... -
Implementation of Right to Information Act, 2009 in Bangladesh: A Study on Union Parishad
(Master thesis, 2013-06-02)The Right to Information Act, 2009' is considered as, one of the most significant policies in recent times, since it came at a time, when there have been lots of debates on country's willingness to ensure transparency and ... -
Implementation of Social Protection Programmes in Ghana: the Case of the Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty Programme (LEAP)
(Master thesis, 2015-05-30)Social protection up the development agenda has been consistently characterised by social transfer programmes mostly in the form of conditional cash transfers (CCT) especially in developing countries. However implementation ... -
Implementation of the National Environment Policy: A case of the Local Government Authorities in Dar Es Salaam City- Tanzania
(Master thesis, 2005)The government of Tanzania, with the support of a wide range of donors is implementing Local Government Reform Programmes. The three municipal councils of Ilala, Temeke and Kinondoni are among the Local government institutions ... -
Implementation of the Right to Children's Participation:The Case of Two Selected Public Primary Schools in Kampala District in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2017-06-27)The right to children’s participation in Uganda, recently got attention in 2008 when the Uganda National Child Participation Guide (UNCPG) was published. This resulted from Uganda ratifying the United Nations Convention ... -
Implementing Digital Transformations in Higher Education Following COVID-19: A Norwegian Case Study
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)Drawing on the theory and conceptualizations of organizational readiness for change and taking a more critical approach to organizational readiness that takes seriously actors’ different and sometimes conflicting understandings ... -
In peace and war: Birth control and population policies in Norway (1930-1945)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)While Norway in the 1930s had relatively liberal policies with regard to access to contraceptives, and an increasing number of legal abortions were carried out, the regime that was installed after occupation in 1940 reined ... -
In the Best Interest of the Child? Justifying Decisions on Adoption from Care in the Norwegian Supreme Court
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)By utilising theories of deliberation and rational argumentation, this article critically analyses the Norwegian Supreme Court’s best interest decisions in four judgments on adoption from care. How does the Supreme Court ... -
Influence and Legitimacy: Civil Society Organizations and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
(Master thesis, 2017-06-27)The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a UN Treaty body with the mandate to assess the State parties’ adherence to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This assessment is carried out in a periodic reporting ... -
Innovasjon og utvikling i energimarkedet- En studie av markedet for solceller i Bergensregionen
(Master thesis, 2021-07-01)Solcellepaneler er har begynt å bli mer og mer vanlig som strømproduksjon i flere husholdninger. Som et resultat av økt fokus på grønn omstilling, økt energibehov og ansvarlige forbrukere, har total mengde av installerte ... -
Innovating the collection of open-ended answers: The linguistic and content characteristics of written and oral answers to political attitude questions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The rapid increase in smartphone surveys and technological developments open novel opportunities for collecting survey answers. One of these opportunities is the use of open-ended questions with requests for oral instead ... -
Institutional and political constraints to planning sustainable settlements in suburban municipalities case of Tallinn, Estonia
(Master thesis, 2007)This thesis addresses the recent phenomenon of urban sprawl in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia,and tries to find its institutional and political reasons. Urban sprawl is seen as a type ofsuburbanization which lacks ... -
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 ...