Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Christensen, Tom"
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Aberbach, Joel D.; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Academic freedom and the autonomy of academic institutions (their freedom from outside interference) are core values in contemporary academic life. This article outlines changes that have taken place in the last few decades ...
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Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Ole Martin; Lægreid, Per (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Based on a survey of civil servants in the Norwegian central government, this article describes perceptions of coordination capacity and examines to what degree the variations in perceived coordinating capacity can be ...
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Xiaolong, Tian; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Purpose Compared with the worldwide reform trend of transcending new public management (NPM) during the past two decades, China's service-oriented government (SOG) reforms are a relatively different reform approach. ...
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Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Abstract This article examines the inquiry reports from the commissions charged with investigating government crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway and Sweden. Such postcrises commissions have been ...
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Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This essay addresses how the Norwegian government has handled the coronavirus pandemic. Compared with many other countries, Norway has performed well in handling the crisis. This must be understood in the context of competent ...
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Tian, Xiaolong; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article examines China’s government reforms over the past 40 years from an instrumental–structural and a cultural–value perspective with the aim of exploring the supposed shift from New Public Management (NPM) to ...
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Christensen, Tom (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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Khan, Tayyeb Ali; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Abstract This article is a study of the challenges of implementing a performance and rewards management system for academics (Tenure Track System - TTS) in Pakistan over the last decade. The main empirical focus is on ...
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Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this article, we examine the units of the central administrations of Chinese universities to ascertain to what extent they reflect Chinese structural and cultural characteristics or global templates, seen through certain ...
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Niva, Golan-Nadir; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Can dissatisfaction with existing policies lead to the co-production of public goods and services? If so, under what conditions could such dissatisfaction lead to the co-production of public goods and services? We posit ...
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The community philanthropic foundation: A new form of independent public service provider in China? Weng, Shihong; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)There have been growing calls for new theories understand public governance with respect to service provision collaboration involving nonprofit and for-profit actors. In this article, we develop a framework for analyzing ...
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Chen, Sicheng; Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)It is well known that public agencies are nearly immortal, but what explains their termination? This article argues that apart from conventional antecedents, political salience defined by top leaders largely shapes government ...
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Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article focuses on perceived coordination quality among Norwegian civil servants. It explains how they assess the quality of coordination in their own field of work along different dimensions. To what degree have such ...
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Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)When responding to crises, a joint approach is often used, which requires coordination among government agencies and other institutions. In this article we combine the vertical and horizontal dimensions to develop a ...
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Wu, Shuai; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Corruption among village and township cadres is a serious problem in China’s governance of rural poverty. Based primarily on government websites, but also newspapers and interviews, the article analyzes categories, types ...
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Kaibing, Zhong; Yihong, Liu; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Based on the existing literature on government policy and crisis management, this article provides an internal-external and vertical-horizontal coordination framework with which to study coordination in a highly centralized ...
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Askim, Jostein; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The article explains how the unprecedented pandemic management decision to lock down the country came about, using the case of Norway and drawing on unique interview material from political and administrative executives. ...
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Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)This chapter examines the Nordic countries crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic by addressing the public health measures. It first outlines the Nordic context and the policy features of the Nordic countries, Denmark, ...
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Christensen, Tom; Lægreid, Per; Rykkja, Lise H. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2018)This article describes and analyzes the decision-making process related to the establishment of Norway's National Police Emergency Response Center (NPERC). Following the July 22, 2011 terrorist attacks, Norway's Inquiry ...
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Samset, Knut Fredrik; Christensen, Tom (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper looks beyond more traditional evaluation activities to focus primarily on evaluation up front. It suggests that the early appraisal of an investment case or a project should apply essentially the same evaluation ...