Browsing Department of Government by Issue Date
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Discretionary Decision-Making in Child Protection Care Order Cases : Exploring the Tensions between Rule of Law and Discretion
(Doctoral thesis, 2024-04-16)Denne avhandlingen tar for seg beslutninger som har stor innvirkning på enkeltindivider og som er nødvendige for å oppfylle statens plikt til å beskytte barn: omsorgsovertakelser av nyfødte barn. Profesjonelle beslutningstakere ... -
Et casestudie av Skatteetaten og Konkurransetilsynets kompetanseforvaltning
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Understanding the left-behind: Electoral support and views on redistribution
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-11-30)I dei seinare åra har statsvitskapen retta søkelyset mot grupper som kjem dårlegare ut i den post-industrielle samfunnsutviklinga. Desse gruppene – såkalla «left-behinds» – sakkar meir akterut enn andre når samfunnet vert ... -
Lost in translation : Mental health professional`s understanding of care pathways and its implications for policy construction and implementation
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-06-06)Denne avhandlingen har som siktemål å undersøke profesjonelle aktører innen psykisk helse sin forståelse av pakkeforløp, og hvordan denne forståelsen påvirket konstruksjonen samt implementering av pakkeforløp til bruk i ... -
The Effects of Corruption Scandals on Public Trust: An Empirical Study of Two Municipalities in Eswatini
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State death in buffer systems: Balancing and bandwagoning
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Welfare collaboration in Norway : Something old, something new, something borrowed, something to pursue?
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-05-11)I de senere år har innovasjon i offentlig sektor fått økt oppmerksomhet både på nasjonale så vel som internasjonale dagsordener. Den økte oppmerksomheten kan knyttes til økende samfunnsmessige, økonomiske og politiske ... -
The Fellowship of Acceptable State Interventions : Knowledge, Norms, and Justifications in Norwegian Child Protection Care Order Cases
(Doctoral thesis, 2023-03-31)I denne avhandlingen undersøker jeg statlige ingrep i familien, og spør hvordan statlige inngrep i familien begrunnes, hva egenskapene og kvalitetene ved disse begrunnelsene er, og hva den norske befolkningens holdninger ... -
Evidence in Norwegian child protection interventions – Analysing cases of familial violence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)How is expert evidence used in care order proceedings when children are considered for foster care placement because of familial violence? What are important factors and how do the decision-makers use and evaluate evidence ... -
Norway: A Pragmatic, Collaborative, and Legitimate Response
(Chapter, 2023)Norway has performed well in handling the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping both infections and deaths lower than in most other countries at the same time as it avoided the most intrusive regulatory measures. The government’s ... -
Experts and migrants – A survey experiment on public acceptance of violence and child protection interventions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Do experts influence public attitudes toward familial violence and child protection interventions? Are public attitudes on familial violence and child protection interventions biased against migrant families? I conduct a ... -
What makes democratic institutions resilient to crises? Applying a novel analytical framework to the case of Finland
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)To curb the COVID-19 pandemic, governments took exceptional measures impacting citizens’ daily lives, the economy, and democratic institutions. The literature has already discussed the various measures and their short-term ... -
Kritisk tenkning i bærekraftundervisning: en kvalitativ analyse av ungdoms perspektiver på klimatiltak
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The climate crisis is one of many societal challenges young people in the 21 century are faced with. In this article we explore students in the 9th grade (age 14) perspectives on climate change mitigation. We recorded 3 ... -
The strength and content of climate anger
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Climate-related anger is present in Greta Thunberg’s speeches and the acts of Extinction Rebellion, but also in the rise of movements protesting climate policies, such as the Yellow Vests. The current study (N = 2,046) ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Staff Reallocations and Employee Attitudes towards Organizational Aims: Evidence using Longitudinal Data from the European Commission
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Organizational reforms often involve substantial staff reallocations, creating both winners and losers within the same organization. We argue that allocating less (more) staff to a department signals a decrease (increase) ... -
Norwegian citizens’ responses to influxes of asylum seekers: comparing across two refugee crises
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We compared Norwegians’ attitudes to immigration, perspective taking, and intergroup behaviors directed at asylum seekers in 2016 (Syrians and Afghans) and 2022 (Ukrainians). We find evidence for a stronger exclusionary ... -
Norwegian higher education futures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The paper deals with the future of Norwegian higher education as part of a Nordic project on higher education futures. To identify future scenarios for Norwegian higher education (HE), the paper uses the theoretical lens ... -
Restricting family life - an examination of citizens’ views on state interventions and parental freedom in eight European countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This paper examines the public views – a total of 10,348 persons – on restrictions of personal autonomy of others to protect the interest of children. We use representative country samples of the adult populations of ...