• Anti-terrortiltak mellom personvern og samfunnsvern 

      Rykkja, Lise Hellebø; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lango, Peter; Lægreid, Per (Working Paper, Working paper, 2011-10)
      I dette notatet ser vi nærmere på den norske befolkningens holdninger til antiterrortiltak i to spørreundersøkelser, en fra 2006 og en fra august 2011. I begge undersøkelsene ble et representativt utvalg spurt om myndighetene, ...
    • Byråkrati og partnerskap hånd i hånd? Om samordningsutfordringer i NAV 

      Fimreite, Anne Lise; Lægreid, Per (4-2008, Working paper, 2008-05)
      This paper addresses coordination challenges in the Norwegian welfare state by focusing on the tension between different principles of specialization and mechanisms of coordination in a multi-level governance system. The ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Deliberativ meningsmåling om arealutviklingen på Dokken og bilfrie områder i Bergen 

      Arnesen, Sveinung; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Skiple, Jon Kåre (Data set, 2021)
      Hvordan skal havneområdet Dokken fornyes? Bergen kommune har startet arbeidet for utvikling på Dokken som et nytt byutviklingsområde. Byrådet har en visjon for Dokken om en transformasjon og utvikling av et stort havneområde ...
    • Generalistkommune og oppgavedifferensiering. Tre innlegg 

      Fimreite, Anne Lise; Flo, Yngve; Aars, Jacob (23-2002, Working paper, 2002-12)
      This Note describes three lectures by representatives of the Rokkan Centre. The lectures were commissioned by the Department of Local Government of the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development, where they were ...
    • Hvordan gjennomføre borgerpanel 

      Arnesen, Sveinung; Bentsen, Henrik Litleré; Bjørseth, Pål; Fimreite, Anne Lise; Ohren, Arild (Research report, 2022)
      Med denne håndboken ønsker vi å øke oppmerksomheten om borgerpaneler og være til inspirasjon for lesere som vurderer å gjennomføre et borgerpanel selv. Den er også sluttproduktet til forskningsprosjektet «Demokratisk ...
    • 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. ...
    • Mission impossible made possible? –Tenkning og argumentasjon bak partnerskapet mellom stat og kommune i NAV 

      Fimreite, Anne Lise (Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-12)
      This working-paper addresses the partnership between central and local government in the Welfare and Employment administration in Norway. The mandatory partnership regulating the collaboration between the government levels ...
    • 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 ...
    • Partnerskapet i Nav - innovasjon eller "same procedure"? 

      Fimreite, Anne Lise (Working Paper, Working paper, 2011-05)
      Dette notatet ser nærmere på partnerskapet mellom stat og kommune i Nav. Partnerskap fremstilles gjerne som et innovativt organisatorisk grep i vår forvaltningsstruktur. Problemstillingene som tas opp i dette notatet er ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Understanding bureaucratic support for coerced institutional change 

      Myksvoll, Thomas; Tatham, Michaël; Fimreite, Anne Lise (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Institutional reform processes can be contested. The more so by those working in the affected institutions. Bureaucracies, in particular, can be resistant to change. To better understand such processes, we study the regional ...