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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 ... -
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 ... -
Child’s best interest in child protection legislation of 44 jurisdictions
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Citizens Trust in Political institutions in Ghana: Do Legitimacy and Social Capital matter?
(Master thesis, 2021-07-01)The study adopts cultural and institutional or performance-based theories to examine the impact of social capital and legitimacy variables on citizens’ trust in their political institutions. The dependent variable was ... -
Citizens' Trust in Local Government: An Empirical Study of Two Municipalities in Bangladesh
(Master thesis, 2017-06-22)Institutional trust is an essential indicator in the governance mechanism involving the level of confidence which citizens’ have towards the public institutions. The present study focuses to find out the level of citizens’ ... -
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 Cluster Approach for Organizing Emergency Response: A case study of Myanmar and Haiti (2008)
(Master thesis, 2013-12-13)This study examines the formal organization of the cluster approach and how it is in practice in the after math of natural disasters. The cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar in 2008 and the tropical storms and hurricane season ... -
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 ... -
Community participation in school development: Understanding participation in basic school performance in the Nanumba district of Ghana
(Master thesis, 2005)This study has been an attempt to look at the impact of community participation on the performance of basic schools in Ghana, specifically the Nanumba District of the Northern Region. As a government policy under the ... -
A comparative analysis of the Child Protection Systems in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania and Russia
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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 ...