Blar i NORCE vitenarkiv på forfatter "Lægreid, Per"
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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 accountability relations in the welfare states. Comparing health and labour administration in Norway, Denmark and Germany
Lægreid, Per; Rubecksen, Kristin (Working paper 10-2014, Working paper, 2014-12)The paper addresses the balance between different accountability relations as perceived from the top of the central government in the aftermath of administrative reforms of welfare/labour and hospital/health in Norway, ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
Autonomy and Control in the Norwegian Civil Service: Does Agency Form Matter?
Lægreid, Per; Roness, Paul G.; Rubecksen, Kristin (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-09)This paper describes the degree of perceived autonomy and control in Norwegian state agencies, examines the relationships between different dimensions of autonomy, and analyzes the variations in perceived autonomy and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Changing Government Control in Norway: High Civil Service, Universities and Prisons
Bleiklie, Ivar; Lægreid, Per; Wik, Marjoleine Hooijkaas (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-03)The topic of this paper is the changing relations of control between the legislative and executive bodies, within executive and within public administration. We outline the traditional way of controlling public sector ... -
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 ...