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Political Reinforcement: How Rising Inequality Curbs Manifested Welfare Generosity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)We propose a political reinforcement hypothesis, suggesting that rising inequality moves party politics on welfare state issues to the right, strengthening rather than modifying the impact of inequality. We model policy ... -
Political values count but issue ownership decides? How stable and dynamic factors influence party set and vote choice in multiparty systems
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article addresses the relationship between latent predispositions and political campaign communication. We propose that political values are decisive in a voter’s calculation of which parties she may consider voting ... -
Politisk og administrativ rolle- og arbeidsdeling i Norges idrettsforbund og olympiske og paralympiske komité (NIF) : En faktabasert analyse
(Research report, 2009)Denne rapporten bygger på data samlet inn gjennom en elektronisk spørreundersøkelse rettet mot alle politiske og administrative ledere i særforbund og idrettskretser samt politiske ledere i særkretsene. Den overordnede ... -
Politisk tillit, lokaldemokrati og legitimitet : Kunnskapsstatus og utviklingstrekk
(Rapport - Institutt for samfunnsforskning;2020:6, Research report, 2020)Denne rapporten, som er den første rapporten av to i regi av prosjektet Forskning på demokrati og tillit og politisk ulikhet, belyser politisk tillit ut fra en overordnet hensikt om å gi en nærmere teoretisk og empirisk ... -
Poststrukturalisme og kjønnsforskning - slik to sosiologer ser det
(Journal article, 2011)Cathrine Holst og Helene Aarseth spør: Hva har skjedd i relasjonen mellom kjønnsforskningen og sosiologifaget? Hvorfor føler ledende skandinaviske kjønnssosiologer seg som «utypiske» og «usentrale» i møte med kjønnsforskningen? -
Pressefrihetens kår i 2014: ett skritt frem - og to tilbake?
(Research report, 2014)I denne rapporten foretar Jon Wessel-Aas en gjennomgang av rettsutviklingen på noen sentrale felt når det gjelder vilkårene for publisistisk frihet og informasjonsfrihet i Norge, med vekt på perioden fra 1999 til 2014. ... -
Pressing the right button—labour market odds for youth with mental illness
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Mental disorders threaten the chances of finishing secondary school and can hinder the school-to-work transitions of afflicted youths. Earlier onset depression predicts the chronicity, recurrence, and severity of episodes ... -
Pressure without Pain: What Politicians (Don’t) Tell You about Welfare State Change
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)How do political leaders politicise welfare state “reform pressures”, e.g. unemployment, ageing or globalisation, in election campaigns? Competing expectations range from no politicization at all to a clear and unbiased ... -
Privat rengjøringshjelp ‒ en løsning på tidsklemma i barnefasen?
(Notat – Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Research report, 2024)Dette notatet undersøker befolkningens bruk av rengjøringshjelp basert CORE Survey 2022 – Likestillingsundersøkelsen. Vi analyserer foreldre som lever i par og som har minst ett barn under 20 år i husholdningen. Spørsmålet ... -
Private and Public Welfare Providers: What are the Implications for Citizenship Roles?
(Working paper, 2013)Universal social services have been, and are, a hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model. This includes public financing as well as public provision of the services. Public financing of universal services is still an ... -
Private Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the Nordic Countries: Development and governance of the welfare mix
(Rapport – Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Research report, 2021)This report examines the role of private providers of ECEC services in the five Nordic countries: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. For each country, we map the ECEC journey from a selective service at the ... -
Profiting from presenteeism? Effects of an enforced activation policy on firm profits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Activation requirements and graded benefits are strategies for reducing social insurance costs in comprehensive welfare states. In Norway, a policy of issuing graded rather than full time sickness absence certificates, is ... -
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring
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Public, For-Profit, and Nonprofit Welfare Institutions in Norway: Distinctive Goals and Steering Mechanisms or Hybridity in a Dominant State
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Nonprofit, public, and for-profit welfare institutions have different operational logics. The distinctiveness of a nonprofit institution is more prominent in some circumstances than in others. This paper is based on case ... -
Punished and banished: Non-citizen women's experiences in a Danish prison
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The Nordics have employed discourses of gender equality and women's rights and a welfare-oriented approach to punishment as integral parts of inclusive welfare states and their ‘goodness’. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork ... -
Quality differences of public, for-profit and non-profit providers in Scandinavian welfare? User satisfaction in kindergartens
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Research on differences between public, for-profit, and nonprofit providers of welfare services have provided mixed findings, depending on welfare state arrangement, regulation, and service area. This paper’s objective is ... -
Quasi-Market Regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care: Does a Nordic Welfare Dimension Prevail?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Until about 25 years ago, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland used a bureaucratic-professional governance model to reach common welfare goals in ECEC, something that arguably constituted a Nordic dimension. Since ...