Research Groups
The Department has four research groups. These groups organise research seminars, student seminars, guest lectures and other activities within their thematic fields:
- Politics, Governance and Innovation
- Knowledge, Politics and Organizations
- Political Organization and Multilevel Governance
- Globalization and Development
Reforming the welfare state
The project Reforming the welfare state: Accountability, democracy and management will run from 2011 and throughout 2014, and is located at the Uni Rokkan Centre in Bergen. The project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council through the VAM programme, and it is headed by Professor Per Lægreid.
COCOPS
The COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future) seeks to comparatively and quantitatively assess the impact of New Public Management-style reforms in European countries, drawing on a team of European public administration scholars from 11 universities in 10 countries.
Politics-Administration-Organization
Administration and Organization Theory is the comparative analysis of politics, administration, and organization. The field is political science and it is founded on political and social theories. Emphasis is placed on developing insight and knowledge in a) the relationship between organization and individual, and b) the relationship between organization and environment.
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Understanding Organizational Reforms in the Modern State: Specialization and Integration in Norway and France
New article from Philippe Bezes, Anne Lise Fimreite, Patrick Le Lide and Per Lægreid.
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The Global University
New book chapter by Ivar Bleiklie: “Collegiality and Hierarchy: coordinating Principles in Higher Education” in Adam Nelson and Ian P. Wei (eds.) The Global University – Past, present and future perspectives.
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Workshop on Institutional Analysis 2012
PhD Workshop on Institutional Analysis to be held at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, August 27 to 31, 2012.
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New Steering Concepts in Public Management
This new volume in the series Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management is edited by Sandra Groeneveld and Steven Van De Walle. Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid have contributed with the second chapter named "Post-NPM Reforms: Whole of Government Approaches as a New Trend".
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Asian – Norwegian partnerships at a crossroads
The NOMA and NUFU programmes are coming to an end. Norwegian and Asian project participants met in Bangladesh to discuss achievements, challenges and the way ahead.
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- Professor David Kirp besøker Instituttet (21.05.2012)
- New PhD course at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory (02.04.2012)
- Workshop on Institutional Analysis 2012 (02.03.2012)
- Challenges of Coordination in Implementing Urban Policy (11.05.2011)
- Citizens' Trust in Public and Political Institutions in Nepal (24.01.2011)