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The causal effect of workload on labour supply of older employees
(Working paper; 6-2017, Working paper, 2017-12)Several policies are implemented to keep older workers in the labour force, but little is known about their effects. We investigate the effects of a particular program: at the age of 55, Norwegian teachers’ workload is ... -
The Challenge of Coordination in Central Government Organizations
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Citizens, Courtrooms, Crossings
(Research report, 2008)In April 2008 scholars from Australia, New Zealand, United States, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, Denmark and Norway gathered for the sixth Bergen workshop on the history of health and medicine. The workshop was made possible ... -
Civil Service Organizations in Norway: Organizational Features and Tasks
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-12)The paper focuses on civil service organizations in Norway – of particular relevance is central organizational features and structure, task portfolio and how organizational characteristics vary according to type of task. ... -
Competing principles of agency organization – the reorganization of a reform
(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 ... -
Competition and physician behaviour: Does the competitive environment affect the propensity to issue sickness certificates?
(Working paper; 1-2017, Working paper, 2017-09)Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit ... -
Complex Patterns of Interaction and Influence Among Political and Administrative Leaders
(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 ... -
Contextualizing candidate popularity: An analysis of the 2007 Norwegian local elections
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-07)Previous research suggests a number of candidate-level influences on candidate popularity like position on the party lists, political experience and social background. Questions about how party- and district-level variables ... -
Contraception, abortion and state socialism: categories in birth control discourses and policies
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)The article is about the politics of birth control in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). I will map abortion and contraception policies and discourses during and after state socialism, with Russia, Poland and Romania as ... -
Coordinating «Wicked Issues»: The County Governor’s Role in Norwegian Internal Security
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-11)Internal security, civil protection and crisis management comprise an important, but challenging policy field. Crises can be framed as «wicked issues» or problems, inherently complex and difficult to solve. Efficient crisis ... -
Coordination and hybrid governance – theoretical and empirical challenges
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Cross National Comparison and National Contexts: Is What We Compare Comparable?
(Working paper, Working paper, 2003-07)The theme of this paper is how to engage in conceptual traveling while simultaneously avoid conceptual stretching: At the one hand we need concepts general enough to grasp essential features of the national contexts under ...