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The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway: The periphery strikes again
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The 2019 local and regional elections in Norway took place against the backdrop of a historical local and regional amalgamation reform initiated by the Conservative-led government in 2014. We find six key outcomes from ... -
Aase Lionæs og abortsaken
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Gjeldende abortlov ble vedtatt i 1975 og endret i 1978 slik at kvinner har rett til selvbestemt abort innen 12. svangerskapsuke. Da hadde abortsaken vært på den politiske agendaen i mange tiår. Mange kvinner og menn har ... -
Accountability and interorganizational collaboration within the state
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article discusses collaborative arrangements within the state and looks at their consequences for democratic accountability in networked governance involving public actors at different levels and in different policy ... -
Administrative coordination capacity; does the wickedness of policy areas matter?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Based on a survey of civil servants in the Norwegian central government, this article describes perceptions of coordination capacity and examines to what degree the variations in perceived coordinating capacity can be ... -
Adopsjon eller offentlig omsorg? En studie av befolkningens syn på adopsjon som tiltak i barnevernet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Barnevernet kan gjennomføre adopsjoner av fosterbarn uten biologiske foreldres samtykke. Dette representerer en betydelig utøvelse av statlig makt, og norsk rett krever særlig tungtveiende grunner for å tillate adopsjon. ... -
Aligning working-class interests and preferences: The case of inheritance tax
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article addresses a lack of alignment between the material interests and economic preferences of the working class. It argues that the link between class interest and support for specific economic policies that benefit ... -
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Seeking insights into how decision-makers uphold obligations to equal and individualized treatment in decisions about state intervention, this study examines justifications by decision-makers in care orders for newborn ... -
Are child protection workers and judges in alignment with citizens when considering interventions into a family? A cross-country study of four jurisdictions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper examines whether and how the views of professional decision makers in public agencies and courts in four child protection jurisdictions align with the views of the public. Democratic states are built on the ... -
Asserting the right to care – Birth parents’ arguments in newborn care orders
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Summary Removing a newborn from his or her birth parents’ care is arguably a stark display of state power into the family. This study explores birth parents’ engagement with care proceedings in all (N = 177) newborn care ... -
Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of inquiry commission reports in Norway and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This article examines the inquiry reports from the commissions charged with investigating government crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden. Such postcrises commissions have been a common feature ... -
Auditee Strategies - An Investigation of Auditees’ Reactions to the Norwegian State Audit Institution’s Performance Audits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)This article contributes to theory on accountability – how it is played out and responded to. It uses the Norwegian State Audit Institution (SAI) as an illustration. The responses of the audited entities to the SAI’s ... -
Auditors' understanding of evidence: A performance audit of an urban development programme
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2011)This article uses a case study to analyse two main dilemmas that performance auditors face when auditing complex interventions in governance. The first dilemma, concerning the performance auditors’ roles as improvement ... -
Balancing Governance Capacity and Legitimacy: How the Norwegian Government Handled the COVID-19 Crisis as a High Performer
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)This essay addresses how the Norwegian government has handled the coronavirus pandemic. Compared with many other countries, Norway has performed well in handling the crisis. This must be understood in the context of competent ... -
The benefits, costs and feasibility of a low incidence COVID-19 strategy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)In the summer of 2021, European governments removed most NPIs after experiencing prolonged second and third waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most countries failed to achieve immunization rates high enough to avoid resurgence ... -
Between diverging discourses of the child: juveniles’ self-construction in coercive residential care
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Based on a qualitative study, this article explores how Norwegian juveniles construct themselves through stories of everyday life in coercive residential care and how this is related to diverging discourses of the child’s ... -
Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study delves into the criteria under which referendums can legitimise political choices. It employs survey experiments regarding EU membership across seven European nations, focusing on variations in referendum outcomes, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...