Browsing NORCE vitenarkiv by Author "Lægreid, Per"
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Democracy and administrative policy: Contrasting elements of NPM and post-NPM
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-11)This paper put together an analytical platform for discussing and analyzing administrative reforms in terms of democracy. First, we present the fundamental positions of democratic theory represented by output-democracy and ... -
Ethics, NPM and post-NPM. A study of patterns and tensions in the central civil service
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-06)Ethics in public organizations have received more attention in recent decades, partly as a result of waves of public reforms. In this paper we first define ethics in public organizations taking a broad approach based on ... -
Europeanization of Nordic Central Governments: Towards a Transnational Regulatory State?
Lægreid, Per; Steinthorsson, Runolfur Smari; Thorhallsson, Baldur (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-11)This paper first describes the degree of EU regulation in the Nordic countries by focusing on the scope of EU rules and regulations in domestic administration, the monitoring and control, and the compliance and enforcement. ... -
Europeanization of Public Administration: Effects of the EU on the Central Administration in the Nordic States
Lægreid, Per; Steinthorsson, Runolfur Smari; Thorhallsson, Baldur (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-11)This paper examines the Europeanization of the Public Administration in the Nordic countries and explores the apparent similarities and differences of the changes in the central administration due to EU and EEA membership. ... -
The Fragmented State – the Challenges of Combining Efficiency, Institutional Norms and Democracy
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (3-2004, Working paper, 2004-03)In this paper we describe the emergence of a leaner, more fragmented state brought about by the transformation of public-sector organisations from integrated multifunctional entities into autonomous and single-purpose ... -
Gaming the system and accountability relations: Negative side-effects of activity-based funding in the Norwegian hospital system
Lægreid, Per; Neby, Simon (Working paper 10/2012, Working paper, 2012-10)Performance management systems are introduced to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in public sectors across the world. We examine four «scandals» cases related to coding practice in Norwegian hospitals followed by ... -
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 ... -
Governance for complexity – how to organize for the handling of «wicked issues»?
Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise Hellebø (Working paper 07-2014, Working paper, 2014-10)This paper examines the main coordination arrangements for handling «wicked issues» in the area of societal security and welfare administration in Norway and ask whether network arrangements have replaced hierarchy. In ... -
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 Management Tools in Norwegian State Agencies: Regulation Inside Government or Shopping Basket?
Lægreid, Per; Rubecksen, Kristin; Roness, Paul G. (13-2006, Working paper, 2006-12)This paper focuses on the broad package of modern management tools that are used by Norwegian state organizations. These tools are regarded as forms of regulation inside government as well as a shopping basket. We describe ... -
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 ... -
The Norwegian Hospital Reform - Balancing Political Control and Enterprise Autonomy
Lægreid, Per; Opedal, Ståle; Stigen, Inger Marie (23-2003, Working paper, 2003-12)This paper focuses on the balance between superior governmental control and enterprise autonomy by examining the Norwegian Hospital Reform. We describe the enterprise model and give a description of the policy instruments ... -
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 ... -
Organizing for Homeland Security: The Case of Norway
Lægreid, Per; Serigstad, Synnøve (12-2004, Working paper, 2004-11)This paper examines the reorganization process in the Norwegian central administration for homeland security. As a central theme it explores why the proposal to radically reorganize the administration by replacing a network ... -
Organizing for Societal Security and Crisis Management
Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise Hellebø (Research report, 2016)This is a descriptive mapping report on how the general central administrative apparatus for societal security and crisis management is organized in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK. -
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, ...