Uni Research Rokkansenteret: Recent submissions
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Ethics, NPM and post-NPM. A study of patterns and tensions in the central civil service
(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 ... -
Mot en ny yrkesrolle i Nav?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-02)This paper focuses on the integration of the Norwegian employment service, the social insurance service and parts of the local social assistance service in the recently established Nav-office. This integration is supposed ... -
Working across boundaries: Collegial administration in central government – scope, variation and effects
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-05)In this paper we address the problems of working across boundaries in central government by focusing on the case of Norway. The main research questions are: a) How common is the use of working or project groups inside the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
NAV i støpeskjeen. En studie av NAV-reformens interimsfase, 2005–2006
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-09)The report studies events that took place between May 2005, when the Norwegian parlament decided to reform the Norwegian welfare administration, and June 2006, when the new state agency called NAV was established. The ... -
Diversity, uniformity and urban political participation
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-05)Our paper aims to analyse the effects of heterogeneity/homogeneity on political participation in three metropolitan areas in Norway. One hypothesis is that socially and/or ethnically homogenous urban areas will have a ... -
Seleksjonsproblematikk i nytt pensjonssystem – ein empirisk analyse av arbeidstilbod og tidleg uttak av alderspensjon
(Notat, Working paper, 2009-07)We study selection effects associated with changes in the public pension system. Individuals can influence their pension wealth by using knowledge about own life expectancy when decisions is made when to draw old age ... -
Tilfredshet med velferdstjenester: Har egenskaper ved kommunene noe å si?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-09)In explaining satisfaction with public welfare services, previous research has focused on various individual level influences such as individual experience, social background and political attitudes. The potential impact ... -
The role of trust, religion and political affiliation in attitudes to anti-terror measures
(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 ... -
Nominering og konstituering i norske kommunar
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-10)This paper explores two crucial stages of the local political recruitment process: a) The nomination process, and b) the process whereby committee positions are allocated. Both processes are mainly controlled by political ... -
Hatlestadraset i Bergen – forutsetninger, håndtering og etterspill
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-05)Natt til 14. september 2005 ble 19 hus i Hatlestad terrasse i Bergen kommune ødelagt etter et jordras forårsaket av kraftig regnvær. Et vidt spekter av aktører var involvert i redningsarbeidet og håndteringen av krisen. ... -
Mål- og resultatstyring i praksis – En studie av styringsdialogen mellom Arbeids- og inkluderingsdepartementet og Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratet
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2010-06)This paper is based on an in-dept single case study of how Management by Objectives and Results (MBOR) is practised in the steering dialog between the Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion (AID) and the Norwegian ... -
"Øvelse gjør mester?". Øvelser som virkemiddel for bedre krisehåndtering og samfunnssikkerhet
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-03)Notatet belyser hvordan myndighetene benytter øvelser for å oppnå bedre krisehåndtering innenfor samfunnssikkerhetsområdet. Øvelser er en viktig metode for å oppnå god krisehåndtering, men vies ofte liten oppmerksomhet i ... -
Monitoring prioritization in a public health care sector
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-12)This paper presents a new way to monitor priority settings in public health care systems. We take departure in medical guidelines prescribing acceptable waiting times for different medical descriptions. Allocating ICD10 ... -
Attitudes towards sickness absence in the nordic countries.
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-12)Sickness absence between Nordic countries varies substantially. While Norway and Sweden have high sickness absence compared with other countries in Europe, absence due to sickness in Finland, Iceland and Denmark is relatively ... -
Hvem har makt over teksten? Marilyn Frenchs Kvinner, lest i lys av Giddens og Foucaults bidrag til aktør- og strukturdebatten
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-03)Hvordan kan ulike begreper om sosial handling kan gi grunnlag for ulike måter å lese tekster? Med utgangspunkt i romanen Kvinner (Marilyn French 1977) studeres Giddens’ aktørorienterte handlingsteori og Foucaults diskursanalyse ... -
Krisehåndtering i E.coli-saken
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-05)This paper is based on an in-depth study of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority’s management of the E.coli crisis in the spring of 2006. The study examines crisis management from sense making through decision making to the ... -
One Landscape - Differing eyes. The interface of the past of the future in the Norwegian fjord landscape.
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2008-12)Heilt sidan oppkomsten av den moderne turismen midt i det 19. hundreåret har dei vestnorske fjordlandskapa vore internasjonalt kjente attraksjonar. Samtidig har dei også vore sett på som norske, «nasjonale» landskap. ... -
Bidrar etableringen av lokale NAV-kontorer til bedre tilbakemeldinger fra brukerne?
(Working Paper, Working paper, 2009-05)Med utgangspunkt i tre teoretiske perspektiver som blir omtalt som brukerne som henholdsvis kunder, borgere og klienter blir det i denne studien undersøkt om brukere som har tilknytning til lokale NAV kontorer vurderer ...