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Making Sense of Stigmatized Organizations: Labelling Contests and Power Dynamics in Social Evaluation Processes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How do social audiences negotiate and handle stigmatized organizations? What role do their heterogenous values, norms and power play in this process? Addressing these questions is important from a business ethics perspective ... -
Research, knowledge, and policy on goitre and iodine in Norway (1850–2016)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Our aim is to shed light on the relationships between research, knowledge, and policy in the case of goitre and the use of iodine as a preventive measure against it in Norway from the 1850s onward. Goitre was previously ... -
Reflections on public administration education with a case of Bangladesh
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The paper aims to review public administration education in the higher education institutions in Bangladesh, and their role in ensuring modern public services. Most universities in the country offer public administration ... -
The Norwegian vocational college: heterogenous aggregate of intermediate educations, or a parallel pillar to higher academic education?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)For long the Norwegian vocational college[1] was placed in the periphery of general system formation policies in education and remained a residual in technical education, based on praxis values and local support from ... -
Training agencies as intermediary organisations in apprentice training in Norway and Switzerland: general purpose or niche production tools?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In recent years Norway and Switzerland have introduced local training agencies (TAs), local intermediary organisations consisting of firms involved in apprentice training. In both countries, the starting point for the ... -
Corporal punishment and reporting to child protection authorities: An empirical study of population attitudes in five European countries
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This study, which draws upon representative survey data of the populations of Austria (n = 1000), Estonia (n = 1069), Ireland (n = 1000), Norway (n = 1002) and Spain (n = 1000), compares population attitudes towards corporal ... -
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 ... -
Services and support for mothers and newborn babies in vulnerable situations: A study of eight European jurisdictions
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)European countries have a legal obligation to provide services to vulnerable families, and children must not be removed from their parents’ care unless no other viable measures are available. This paper examines whether ... -
Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability and representation in democratizing countries. We argue that party switching is influenced by campaign costs tied to the clientelistic ... -
International public administration on the tip of the tongue: language as a feature of representative bureaucracy in the Economic Community of West African States
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Recent scholarship shows increasing interest in gender, ethnic or national representation within regional and international organizations. In contrast, language as a criterion of representation has rarely been scrutinized. ... -
Justifying interventions in Norwegian child protection - an analysis of cases of violence in migrant and non-migrant families
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How are decisions about care orders of children in cases about violence justified? What important accounts are considered? In an in-depth analysis of 94 written care order decisions from the Norwegian County Boards, we ... -
Shame On You! Unpacking the Individual and Organizational Implications of Engaging with a Stigmatized Organization
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How and when does engagement with a stigmatized organization lead to the transfer of its stigma to organizations and individuals associating with it? To answer this question, we conduct an inductive study of the process ... -
Exploring populations view on thresholds and reasons for child protection intervention – comparing England, Norway, Poland and Romania
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This explorative study examines citizens' views on restricting parental freedom to protect children's rights in England, Norway, Poland and Romania. Are there differences in popular views in these four welfare states with ... -
Don’t Touch My Constitution! Civil Society Resistance to Democratic Backsliding in Africa's Pluralist Regimes
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Analyzing civil society resistance to elite-led democratic backsliding in Africa, the article argues that the non-militant, civil society-based transitions experienced in the 1990s left a legacy of a pro-democracy cleavage ... -
Processes and determining factors when family court judgments are made in England about infants entering care at birth
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper reports on the England part of a research project exploring judicial decision making in eight jurisdictions with respect to care applications in respect of new-born infants. Descriptive data are provided on a ... -
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 ... -
In the Best Interest of the Child? Justifying Decisions on Adoption from Care in the Norwegian Supreme Court
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)By utilising theories of deliberation and rational argumentation, this article critically analyses the Norwegian Supreme Court’s best interest decisions in four judgments on adoption from care. How does the Supreme Court ... -
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 ... -
Creating gender exceptionalism: The role of global indexes
(Chapter, 2021)In this chapter, the authors examine critically the rise of global indexes and ask how they helped build and shape the idea of Nordic gender exceptionalism, as the region's members moved from being Cold War-era 'middle way ...