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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 ... -
Bargaining, Strategy and Opportunism - A case study of why amalgamating municipalities hoard
(Master thesis, 2022-06-15)How does municipal leadership legitimise the decision of whether to hoard ahead of an amalgamation? To answer this question, I conducted semi-structured interviews with eight political leaders involved in the amalgamation ... -
Barn på tvang. Nyere styringstrender og konkurrerende diskurser i institusjonsbarnevernet
(Doctoral thesis, 2018-06-22)Hvordan vi gir mening til våre erfaringer, får betydning for hva som oppfattes som realitet, og dermed hvordan vi håndterer de situasjoner vi står i. I denne avhandlingen rettes oppmerksomheten mot hvordan barn gir mening ... -
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 ... -
Beredskap tatt av vinden? - Ein casestudie av handteringa av stormen "Dagmar" i Sogn og fjordane
(Master thesis, 2013-06-13)I romjula 2011 slo ekstremveret «Dagmar» innover Vestlandet. Stormen råka Norge, Sverige og Finland den 25. og 26. desember. Dagmar var særleg kraftig og gjorde størst skade på Vestlandet. Den største konsekvensen av stormen ... -
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place". The Contradictory Roles of Organizations involved in Housing Delivery in South African Informal Settlements
(Master thesis, 2013-06-14)While considerable strides have been made in South Africa in addressing the skewed patterns of access to adequate shelter among its citizens, significant challenges lie ahead. Since the first democratic elections of 1994 ... -
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 ... -
Bindetegnsuniversitetene - en studie av kvalitetsbegrepets rolle i universitetenes profilering og posisjonering i det nye universitetslandskapet
(Master thesis, 2011-12-01)Denne oppgaven har som mål å undersøke hvilken rolle kvalitet spiller i universitetenes selvprofilering og posisjonering innenfor institusjonslandskapet de er en del av. Det er en casestudie, hvor kvalitetsbegrepet hos ... -
”Bopliktsaken” i Tvedestrand: En studie av en lokalpolitisk beslutningsprosess
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Bortenfor horisonten. ”Enemy Combatant” og den sikkerhetspolitiske diskurs
(Master thesis, 2007)Denne masteroppgaven handler om begrepet "enemy combatant", dens mulighetsbetingelser og betydning i den amerikanske sikkerhetspolitiske diskursen og den globale krigen mot terror. Siktemålet er å demonstrere at det er i ... -
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 ... -
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 ...