In a study of land politics carried out from 2001 to 2005 in the two western provinces of South Africa, the Northern and the Western Cape, a high degree of distrust was recorded between institutions in the provincial ...

Denne artikkelen retter oppmerksomheten mot utviklingstrekk i landbruks- og fiskeripolitikken i Norge og EU etter iverksettingen av EØS-avtalen i 1994. Det argumenteres for at politikken på begge områder har blitt likere, ...

Denne masteroppgaven er inspirert av en langvarig debatt om hvorvidt det er en forskjell mellom ledelse i offentlig og privat sektor. Ved å ta for meg norske kommuner og kommunedirektører, studerer jeg hvorvidt kommuner ...

What are the psychological, social, and political legacies of sexual violence in armed conflicts? While conventional wisdom expects the exclusion of survivors from their societies due to stigma, we advance a theory of ...

Since the 1990s, African incumbents have engaged in forms of rule-bending that weaken democratic institutions. The democratic backsliding witnessed weaponises law through processes of autocratic lawfare. However, civil ...

The representation of specific groups and social interests within (or by) the civil service has long been a concern of public administration scholarship. Yet, much of this literature focuses on representation at a single ...

This case study examines the legitimation processes of two environmental NGOs in Norway. Building on an extensive discussion on the conceptualization of legitimacy, this embedded multi-case study assesses both passive and ...

When an international organization gains authority and becomes more prominent in the public sphere, contestation rise and the need to legitimize its exercise of authority grows. Although legitimation processes of international ...

This case study examines the role of local actors in the design of a mandated network (which is a collaborative arrangement instigated by some external third party) and how their choices affect subsequent network dynamics. ...