Browsing Publikasjoner fra CRIStin by Title
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Political and administrative control of expert groups—A mixed‐methods study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Governments face a fundamental dilemma when asking expert groups for advice. Experts possess knowledge that can help governments design effective and legitimate policies. However, they can also propose different policies ... -
Political appointees in executive government: Exploring and explaining roles using a large-N survey in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Political appointees in executive government have received increased scholarly attention in recent years. However, few studies have covered non-Westminster systems, and apart from classifications that systemize variation ... -
Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of welfare providers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article contributes to the knowledge of interest groups’ political power. It examines how interest groups shape political debates and decision-making, and what strategies are most successful to this end, through an ... -
Political Cleavages in Indigenous Representation: The Case of the Norwegian and Swedish Sámediggis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Using Lipset and Rokkan’s cleavage theory in an Indigenous context, the article compares political cleavages in internal Sámi politics in Norway and Sweden. The authors discuss the historical legacies of each country’s ... -
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 ... -
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? -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)In 2015 Europe experienced an almost unprecedented number of asylum arrivals. The result was a revitalization of both the political and academic debates on the relationship between asylum policies and arrivals. In this ...