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Breaking the cycle: Solidarity with care-leaver mothers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Many child protection cases involve care-experienced mothers, which reveals a continuous cycle of mothers who lose their children to social services after having been in state care themselves as children. While the importance ... -
Bridging higher education and the world of work? Employer panels in Nordic university governance
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Universities are increasingly expected to cooperate with society and the world of work to ensure relevant higher education. One example is the introduction of mandated employer panels, where external members are brought ... -
Building a sector reputation: the strategic communication of national higher education
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)What characterises strategic communication aimed at building the reputation of an entire public subsector? This is the main question for this study, pursued through content analysis of one-stop web portals for national ... -
BUREAUCRATIC AUTONOMY: INDEPENDENCE OF DONOR FUNDED BUREAUCRATS
(Master thesis, 2020-06-11)A scan through available political science and public administration literature points to a global upsurge in studies on bureaucratic autonomy. The predominant focus of most of these studies have been to either establish ... -
By og land. Mann mot mann. En kvantitativ studie av emosjonell polarisering i USA
(Master thesis, 2024-06-03)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker emosjonell polarisering blant amerikanske velgere med fokus på geografiske og sosiale faktorer. Problemstillingen dreier seg om hvor i USA de mest emosjonelt polariserte velgerne befinner ... -
Byråkratisk eller politisk krisehåndtering? Analyse av forholdet mellom fag og politikk under koronapandemien
(Master thesis, 2021-07-01)Denne oppgaven undersøker samspillet mellom fag og politikk i opptaket til og under en krisesituasjon gjennom problemstillingen Hvilke kategorier kan identifiseres i diskusjonen om smitteverntiltaket stenging av grunnskoler, ... -
Can critical policy studies outsmart AI? Research agenda on artificial intelligence technologies and public policy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The insertion of artificial intelligence technologies (AITs) and data-driven automation in public policymaking should be a metaphorical wake-up call for critical policy analysts. Both its wide representation as techno-solutionist ... -
Can reconstruction programmes improve political perceptions in conflict contexts? Evidence from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Postconflict reconstruction programmes often aim to improve state–society relations but fail to spell out the underlying process. We specify a mechanism that links aid programmes through (1) short-term and (2) medium-term ... -
Canada - en innvandringspolitisk suksesshistorie?
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Carbon Pricing and Induced Small Business Innovation in California: How the Global Warming Solutions Act Impacted Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Green Energy
(Master thesis, 2021-06-01)This is a study of the California Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) and the related laws passed to support it. The GWSA established a whole-economy cap on greenhouse gas emissions and established a series of emissions ... -
Care order cases in the European Court of Human Rights - Parents' vs. children's rights
(Master thesis, 2019-06-20)At present date, 47 States have committed to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The Convention aims to give all humans some basic human rights. Children are however not explicitly mentioned. The European Court ... -
A century of Public Administration: Traveling through time and topics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Public Administration (PA) has been a unique witness and protagonist of scholarship in the field of public administration over the course of an entire century. On the occasion of the journal's 100th anniversary, we conduct ... -
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 ... -
Challenges and Prospects of Implementing Citizen’s Charter: A Study of Panchkula (Haryana) Municipal Council in India
(Master thesis, 2005)The Citizen’s Charter has been adopted as a device by the Government of India to induce clienthis research primarily used a qualitative perspective, attempting to discern the meaning ofhe empirical evidence suggests that ... -
Challenges of Fiscal Desentralization Policy in the Akuapem South District of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2008)The Government of Ghana introduced the decentralization concept in 1988 as part of hereffort/determination to make local government administration autonomous in Ghana. Themain aim of the concept was to make the people at ... -
Challenges of Implementing Peace Accord: The Case of Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHTPA) in Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2016-06-01)The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHTPA) was designed to maintain peace and security in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region. The study examines the extent of policy output of the CHTPA implementation in terms ... -
The challenges of women participation in local governance: the case of Accra and Tamale metropolitan assemblies
(Master thesis, 2010-06-01)The woman in Ghana hews the wood, carries the water, satisfies the man, produces and takes care of the child to continue the family tree and manages all house chores. All these are justifications that she can be put in a ... -
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 ... -
Child Labour in Petty Trading (Hawking Business) in Ghana: A Case Study of the Madina and Abokobi areas in the Ga East District.
(Master thesis, 2012-12-03)This thesis discusses the conditions of child hawkers involved in child labour in the areas of Abokobi and Madina in the Ga East District as well as measures taken to assist child hawkers and the challenges, in the Ga East ...