Browsing NORCE vitenarkiv by Author "Christensen, Tom"
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Accountability and performance in welfare administration reform. Comparing Norway and Germany
Christensen, Tom; Jantz, Bastian; Lægreid, Per (Working paper 09-2014, Working paper, 2014-11)This paper starts with a theoretical discussion on the relationship between performance and accountability in public organizations with a special focus on administrative reforms. Accountability theory is discussed and ... -
Accountability Relations in Unsettled Situations: Administrative Reforms and Crises
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working paper; 3-2015, Working paper, 2015-07)This paper examines what characterizes accountability relationships in the unsettled situations that arise during reforms or crisis management. We look at how accountability is handled in circumstances that go beyond ... -
Administrative coordination capacity; does the wickedness of policy areas matter?
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Ole Martin; Lægreid, Per (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Based on a survey of civil servants in the Norwegian central government, this article describes perceptions of coordination capacity and examines to what degree the variations in perceived coordinating capacity can be ... -
Administrative Reforms and Competence in Central Government Organizations
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-06)This paper focuses on administrative competence in the Norwegian central government and its relationship to administrative reforms. Four different types of competence are addressed: Fachkompetenz, policy advice skills, ... -
The Challenge of Coordination in Central Government Organizations
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (5-2007, Working paper, 2007-10)This paper addresses the coordination problems in central government by focusing on the Norwegian case. The main research questions are: What are the experiences of civil servants concerning the main aspects of coordination ... -
Challenges and effects of administrative reform - Reorganizing the Norwegian welfare administration
Christensen, Tom; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per; Askim, Jostein (Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-08)This paper addresses the effects and implications of one of the largest public-sector reforms in recent Norwegian administrative history. The reform is a merger of the employment and national insurance administrations in ... -
Changing accountability relations - the forgotten side of public sector reforms
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2011-06)In this paper we investigate how a major reform in the civil service changed accountability relationships. We seek to explain these changes using a transformative approach that combines structural, cultural and environmental ... -
Changing accountability relations in a welfare state – an assessment based on a study of welfare reforms
Byrkjeflot, Haldor; Lægreid, Per; Christensen, Tom (Working Paper, Working paper, 2011-11)In this paper we investigate how two major reforms in the Norwegian welfare sector changed accountability relationships. The reforms in question were the NAV reform of the welfare administration that Norway passed in 2005 ... -
Changing accountability relations in welfare state reforms: Lessons from Norway
Byrkjeflot, Haldor; Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Research report, 2012)In this report we investigate how three major reforms in the Norwegian welfare sector changed accountability relationships. The reforms in question were the NAV reform of the welfare administration that Norway passed in ... -
The Co-evolution of Reputation Management, Governance Capacity, Legitimacy and Accountability in Crisis Managment
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise H. (Chapter, 2019) -
Competing principles of agency organization – the reorganization of a reform
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2011-10)This paper focuses on the following research questions: a) What are the principles of structural organization evident in the welfare administrative reform adopted by Norway in 2005? b) How was this complex mix of organizational ... -
Complex Patterns of Interaction and Influence Among Political and Administrative Leaders
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working paper, Working paper, 2002-10)In this paper we describe the influence of Norwegian executive political and administrative leaders on salient policy issues, based on a structural, a culturalinstitutional and an exposure perspective. The data used are ... -
Coordination and hybrid governance – theoretical and empirical challenges
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-06)Public organizations are increasingly hybrid and complex, trying to attend to numerous and partly conflicting structures and cultural elements at the same time. The different generations of public sector reforms – NPM and ... -
Crisis Management Organization: Building Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise Hellebø (Working paper 11-2014, Working paper, 2014-12)This paper addresses the question of what makes a well‐functioning governmental crisismanagement system. A core argument is that such a system needs both governance capacity and legitimacy. To achieve an institutional ... -
Crisis Management – The Case of Internal Security in Norway
Christensen, Tom; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2007-12)This paper describe and explain citizens’ and civil servants’ perceptions of how able government bodies are to prevent and handle crises. The explanatory factors are trust, cultural, political, structural and demographic ... -
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 ... -
«En felles etat» – en analyse av prosessen som ledet frem til opprettelse av ny arbeids- og velferdsforvaltning (NAV)
Christensen, Tom (Research report, 2008)Denne rapporten er en analyse av prosessen som startet 12. desember 2001 da Stortinget henstilte til Regjeringen å utrede en felles etat for sosial-, arbeidsmarkeds- og trygdeeta-ten, og som fikk sin foreløpige slutt med ... -
Etablering av forvaltningsenhetene og pensjonsenhetene i NAV - en gjennomtenkt reorganisering med positive effekter?
Christensen, Tom (Rapport 02-2011, Research report, 2011-02)En stor reform som NAV-reformen innebærer ofte store og kompliserte strukturelle grep, for ikke å snakke om de kulturelle endringene som medarbeiderne må tilpasse seg. Derfor argumenteres det ofte med at en reform må få ... -
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 ... -
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 ...