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The Decentralized Path Challenged? Nordic Health Care Reforms in Comparison
(Working paper, Working paper, 2004-01)In this paper we present alternatives for describing and explaining the developments of Nordic health care in general and hospitals in particular. The backdrop is the Norwegian hospital reform of 2002, a reform that seems ... -
Legens doble rolle som advokat og portvakt i Fastlegeordningen. Evaluering av fastlegeordningen
(19-2003, Working paper, 2003-12)The Regular General Practitioner Scheme was introduced June 1st 2001. The aim of this study was to investigate how general practitioners (GPs) assess that the reform has influenced their discretionary decisions as gatekeepers. ... -
Nordic Alcohol Policy and Globalization as a Changing Force
(5-2003, Working paper, 2003-04)Several recent studies argue that the Nordic alcohol policy, based on restrictive measures and aimed at reducing consumption, is changing. This paper discusses the potential impact of globalization on Nordic Alcohol policy ... -
Food Safety at Stake – the Establishment of Food Agencies
(14-2004, Working paper, 2004-11)Food safety regulation has a long history in public policy. It is an essential and valued state responsibility, vital in securing society order. The 1990s BSE-crisis had important political, institutional and economic ... -
Taking Power from Knowledge. A Theoretical Framework for the Study of Two Public Sector Reforms
(22-2003, Working paper, 2003-12)The paper presents a theoretical framework for studying reforms and organizational change; 1) change as the product of reformers’ intentions, 2) change in institutionalized norms and habits and 3) change as a consequence ... -
Regulatory Agencies – the Challenges of Balancing Agency Autonomy and Political Control
(18-2004, Working paper, 2004-12)In this paper we focus on the dynamic interplay between increase in autonomy of regulatory agencies and political control of those agencies. The general research issues are the weak empirical foundations of regulatory ... -
Internationalization at Norwegian Universities and Colleges after the Quality Reform
(6-2004, Working paper, 2004-04)The Quality Reform of Norwegian higher education has been fully implemented since January 2004. One of the major features of the reform is the radical aims it sets for internationalization at institutions of higher education. ... -
The Structural Anatomy of the Norwegian State 1947-2003
(21-2003, Working paper, 2003-12)This paper describes and analyses the development of the Norwegian state apparatus in the post World War II period based on a broad institutional perspective and a comprehensive database. The Norwegian reform context is ... -
Organizing for Homeland Security: The Case of Norway
(12-2004, Working paper, 2004-11)This paper examines the reorganization process in the Norwegian central administration for homeland security. As a central theme it explores why the proposal to radically reorganize the administration by replacing a network ... -
Økonomiske insentiv i arbeidslinjen, virker det? Evaluering av forsøksordning med kvalifiseringsstønad i «Prosjekt Amalie» i Åsane
(11-2004, Working paper, 2004-10)Som en av tretten kommuner fikk Bergen tildelt midler fra Sosialdepartementet i 2001 for å iverksette tiltaket «Aktive arbeidsrettede tiltak for langtids sosialhjelpsmottakere». Den lokale varianten – et tre måneders ... -
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 ... -
Two lectures. Stein Rokkan and the Twentieth Century Social Science. Den sociala rapporteringens tidstypiska förankring
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Politisk styring og institusjonell autonomi – tre illustrasjoner
(10-2003, Working paper, 2003-05)This article is about the problems connected to political governance at the one hand, and institutional autonomy on the other. The assumption is that the relation between the two displays a fundamental contradiction, ... -
The National Patterns of Unemployment Policies in Two Asian Countries: Malaysia and South Korea
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Trust in Government – the Significance of Attitudes Towards Democracy, the Public Sector and Public Sector Reforms
(7-2003, Working paper, 2003-04)This paper examines trust in government along three dimensions: general levels of trust, trust in political bodies and actors and trust in the civil service. In correlating trust in government with citizens’ general attitudes ... -
The Introduction of Choice in Scandinavian Hospital Systems. Arguments and Policy Processes in the Danish and the Norwegian Case
(5-2004, Working paper, 2004-03)This paper describes a comparative study between free choice of hospital in Denmark and Norway. The starting point for the study is that the Scandinavian health care system has historically been dominated by a decentralized ... -
Tilsyn som styringsform i forholdet mellom staten og kommunene
(9-2004, Working paper, 2004-05)This paper focuses on supervision as a governing tool in the relationship between the state and the municipalities. A clarification and discussion of the concept of supervision is made. The specific character of the states ... -
The Impact of Institutional Legacies on Active Ageing Policies: Norway and UK as Contrasting Cases
(18-2003, Working paper, 2003-12)Increasingly international organisations, national governments and social actors all over the Western world have embraced the concept of «active ageing». The associated policy packages are seen as better ways to address ... -
Strukturer og reformer. En kvalitativ analyse av reformen «enhetlig ledelse» sett i lys av sykehusets arbeidsorganisering
(25-2004, Working paper, 2004-12)In 2002 there was a large structural reform in Norwegian healthcare, and also a reform aiming at establishing a new management structure, the so-called unitary management reform (“enhetlig ledelse”). One purpose of the ...