Blar i NORCE vitenarkiv på forfatter "Lægreid, Per"
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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 ... -
Performance Management In Practice – the Norwegian Way
Lægreid, Per; Roness, Paul G.; Rubecksen, Kristin (8-2005, Working paper, 2005-11)This paper examines how the Norwegian system of performance management, Management-By-Objectives-And-Results (MBOR), works in practice in civil service organizations. To do this it focuses on the formulation of goals and ... -
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 ... -
Regulating Regulatory Organizations: Controlling Norwegian Civil Service Organizations
Lægreid, Per; Roness, Paul G.; Rubecksen, Kristin (5-2005, Working paper, 2005-09)This paper describes the regulatory agencies in Norway as part of the population of Norwegian state agencies by focusing on who controls and on what is controlled and how. We analyze whether regulatory agencies are regulated ... -
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 ... -
Reorganizing the Modern State in Comparative Perspective: Specialization and Integration in Norway and France
Bezes, Philippe; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per; Le Lidec, Patrick (Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-12)Administrative systems have historically always been confronted with issues of integration and coordination on the one hand and autonomy and fragmentation on the other hand. The main topic of this paper is the challenge ... -
Reorganizing the Welfare State Administration: Partnership, networks and accountability
Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-05)This paper addresses the big welfare administration reform in Norway. The reform is a merger of the employment and national insurance administrations into a new employment and welfare administration, combined with more ... -
The role of trust, religion and political affiliation in attitudes to anti-terror measures
Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise Hellebø (Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-08)This paper analyzes citizens’ attitudes towards the use of strong prevention measures in the fight against terror. The analysis is based on a survey sent to a representative sample of the Norwegian population in 2006. The ... -
Same cheat, different wrapping: DRG scandals and accountability in Germany and Norway
Neby, Simon; Lægreid, Per; Mattei, Paola; Mitra, Mahima (Working paper, Working paper, 2013-07)Across the world, the DRG system is used for administrative and financial purposes in hospitals. Combining statistical registration and aggregation of data on medical activity with activity based financing; DRGs have proven ... -
Specialization and Coordination: Implications for Integration and Autonomy in a Multi-Level System
Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per (7-2005, Working paper, 2005-11)In this paper we discuss the changes in relationship between central and local government in Norway in a decade of reforms both at central and local levels. A main topic is the balance between unity and diversity or state ... -
The Structural Anatomy of the Norwegian State 1947-2003
Lægreid, Per; Rolland, Vidar W.; Roness, Paul G.; Ågotnes, John-Erik (21-2003, Working paper, 2003-12)This paper describes and analyses the development of the Norwegian state apparatus in the post World War II period based on a broad institutional perspective and a comprehensive database. The Norwegian reform context is ... -
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 ... -
Welfare reform and «wicked issues» – from coupling to de-coupling?
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2012-04)This paper seeks to identify trans-boundary innovative coordination practices and related modes of specialization and steering instruments in welfare administration reforms. We describe how the 2005 reform of the welfare ... -
The Whole-of-Government Approach – Regulation, Performance, and Public-Sector Reform
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (6-2006, Working paper, 2006-08)In this paper we first discuss «whole-of-government» initiatives as a reaction to the negative effects of NPM reforms such as structural devolution, performance management, and «single-purpose organizations». Second, we ...