In this article, we develop a theoretical framework for investigating how organizational culture relates to the roles of elected representatives. Based on Douglas's grid and group logic, our framework evaluates two cultural ...

This article explores how personal experience in the form of human interest stories has become a road to visibility, legitimacy, and impact for organizational actors and interest groups. Focusing on news media representations ...

Family policies in the Nordic countries gain international attention.1 An important reason for this is that they appear to produce good results: the Nordic countries combine comparatively high levels of fertility with high ...

In many countries – including Norway – concerns about the persistent gender gap in pensions have led to the introduction of child credits that compensate mothers for losing accrued pension rights while they care for small ...

Existing scholarship on contemporary antisemitism tends to sacrifice breadth for depth, typically focusing on a specific dimension of the phenomenon or a single national or ideological context. This nearsightedness threatens ...

I internasjonal sammenheng har Norge en meget høy sysselsettingsrate. I følge den komparative studien Employment Options of the Future, som ble gjennomført i 16 europeiske land i 1998, er sysselsettingsraten (for personer ...

Fra 1. januar 2017 har alle kommuner vært pålagt å innføre aktivitetsplikt til alle brukere av økonomisk sosialhjelp som er under 30 år. Tidligere var det mulig å stille vilkår om aktivitet, men det var opp til den enkelte ...

The article investigates the relationship between Norwegian MPs and their home constituency. The approach is based on the concept of constituency representation, which combines representational focus and constituency ...

Emotions, such as anger and fear, have been shown to influence people’s political behavior. However, few studies link emotions specifically to how people debate political issues and seek political information online. In ...