Blar i NORCE vitenarkiv på forfatter "Christensen, Tom"
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Governance Coordination Capacity and Quality. Does Wicked Policy Areas Matter?
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working paper; Peer reviewed, 2018-05)Based on a study of civil servants in the Norwegian central government, this article describes perceptions of coordination quality along the vertical/horizontal and internal/external dimensions as well as overall perceived ... -
The Governance of Wicked Issues: A European Cross-Country Analysis of Coordination for Societal Security
Christensen, Tom; Danielsen, Ole Andreas; Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise Hellebø (Working paper 06-2014, Working paper, 2014-09)This paper analyzes structures and behavior instigated to achieve coordination within the area of societal security in six European countries: Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. We ... -
ICT tools in central government
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-11)Dette notatet beskriver utbredelse og bruk av ulike IKT verktøy i norsk sentraladministrasjon. Det fokuseres på «e-government» og «e-domocracy» og på opplevde effekter av IKT på økonomi, kvalitet, åpenhet, samordning, ... -
Implementation of Merger: Lessons from the Norwegian Welfare Bureaucracy
Askim, Jostein; Christensen, Tom; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-08)This paper aims to contribute to scholarly knowledge about public-sector mergers by analyzing a recent merger in the Norwegian welfare bureaucracy. The merger studied is one of the largest oriented reforms in recent Norwegian ... -
Joined-up-government: Reform challenges, experiences and accountability relations
Christensen, Tom; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per (Working paper 06/2012, Working paper, 2012-09)The merger of the employment and national insurance administrations and the collaboration between this new administration and local social services is one of the largest public-sector reforms ever to take place in Norway. ... -
Living in the past? - tenure, roles and attitudes in the central civil service
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working paper, Working paper, 2008-01)In this paper we describe the changes that have taken place in the Norwegian civil service over the past 30 years, spanning the period of the ‘old public administration’, the New Public Management era and finally the current ... -
Modern Regulatory Agencies - Professional and Judicial Objectivity or Increased Complexity in Decision-Making?
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (12-2006, Working paper, 2006-12)In this paper we examine the preconditions for fulfilling the aims of the regulatory reform in the case of Norway by comparing different decision-making processes in regulatory agencies. We cover both the process of ... -
NAV in an international context
Christensen, Tom; Fimreite, Anne Lise (Research report, 2010)The NAV-reform is one of the largest coordination-oriented reforms in recent Norwegian public administration history. Following years of debate and negotiation, the government decided to merge two sector organizations with ... -
NPM and Beyond – Leadership, Culture, and Demography
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (3-2007, Working paper, 2007-06)In this paper we ask what happens to NPM and post-NPM reform elements when they encounter the realities of the Norwegian civil service. The empirical data used in the analysis are taken mainly from surveys of civil servants ... -
Performance and accountability - a theoretical discussion and an empirical assessment
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working paper 03/2013, Working paper, 2013-04)This paper starts with a theoretical discussion on the relationship between performance and accountability in public organizations. Accountability theory, based in the work of Dubnick, Romzek, Bovens, Behn, Bouckaert, ... -
Performance management and accountability of welfare state agencies. The cases of Norwegian hospital, welfare and immigration administration
Askim, Jostein; Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working paper 08-2014, Working paper, 2014-10)This paper examines how administrative and managerial accountability are balanced in public sector performance management systems and how the formal affiliation between ministry and agency, and agency tasks affect this ... -
Performance Management and Public Sector Reform: The Norwegian Hospital Reform
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per; Stigen, Inger Marie (17-2004, Working paper, 2004-12)When New Public Management (NPM) reforms are introduced in various countries, one central element in the balance between political control and institutional and professional autonomy is the development of new performance ... -
Politisk styring og privatisering: holdninger i elitene og befolkningen
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (1-2003, Working paper, 2003-03)This paper focuses on attitudes on political control of state owned companies and on privatization. Do the citizens and the elites in Norway agree on these issues? To what degree do the attitudes vary with demographic ... -
Reform of the Employment and Welfare Administrations - the Challenges of Co-ordinating Diverse Public Organisations
Christensen, Tom; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per (14-2006, Working paper, 2006-12)This paper addresses one of the most comprehensive structural reforms in recent Norwegian administrative history: a merger of the employment and national insurance administrations, combined with more formal collaboration ... -
Reforming the Norwegian police between structure and culture. Community police or emergency police?
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise Hellebø (Working paper; 9-2016, Working paper, 2016-10)This paper examines the reform of the police in Norway from 2012 to 2015 using a qualitative analysis of central public reports and official documents leading up to the reform. These include the report from the official ... -
Regulatory Agencies – the Challenges of Balancing Agency Autonomy and Political Control
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (18-2004, Working paper, 2004-12)In this paper we focus on the dynamic interplay between increase in autonomy of regulatory agencies and political control of those agencies. The general research issues are the weak empirical foundations of regulatory ... -
The Regulatory Orthodoxy in Practice
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (6–2007, Working paper, 2007-11)This paper examines whether the OECD regulatory model corresponds with regulatory practice in Norway. It describes and analyzes whether civil servants in central agencies working with regulatory tasks differ from other ... -
Regulatory Reforms and Agencification
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (6-2005, Working paper, 2005-11)Over the last two decades the classical model of hierarchical and integrated government has been gradually replaced by a more horizontally structured and fragmented arrangement. A central aspect of this development in many ... -
Trust in Government – the Relative Importance of Service Satisfaction, Political Factors and Demography
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (18-2002, Working paper, 2002-11)This paper focuses on trust in government, meaning the parliament, the cabinet, the civil service, local councils, political parties and politicians. Trust is measured in terms of specific support - as indicated by people’s ... -
Trust in Government – the Significance of Attitudes Towards Democracy, the Public Sector and Public Sector Reforms
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (7-2003, Working paper, 2003-04)This paper examines trust in government along three dimensions: general levels of trust, trust in political bodies and actors and trust in the civil service. In correlating trust in government with citizens’ general attitudes ...