The NPM portfolio offers several solutions to improve organisational performance and . One of the most crucial of them is to split up integrated organisations into more autonomous operational units. The idea of arm’s length government is gaining ground in Norwegian local government and has materialised itself through the proliferation of agencies, especially in the shape of different forms of local ...

Denne artikkelen handler om forholdet mellom politikk og administrasjon i små politisk-administrative systemer. Den er eksplorerende og setter empirisk fokus på en kommune. Formålet er primært å identifisere noen hypoteser om typiske utfordringer i forholdet mellom politikk og administrasjon, og å få rikere kunnskap om forholdet. Artikkelen gir innblikk i litteratur om administrativ makt og kommenterer ...

This article discusses the consequences of changing views on accountability in democratic decision-making. Trends in Norway indicate that Norwegians are evaluating local democracy increasingly in terms of service performance and output, rather than in terms of political input from citizens. While traditional process evaluation is associated with governmental hierarchies and how voters can make elected ...

This paper discusses the impact of new media on local politics and politicians in a highly digitalised and advanced democracy. Through case studies and interviews of elite representatives in three Norwegian municipalities, the paper’s ambition is to gain further understanding of the use of new media at the local political level and how new media influence and shape the role of local political ...

This paper seeks to convey a broader understanding of policy transfers between different sectors, focusing on transfers from the for-profit sector to local government. Specifically, we study the reasoning in a transfer process of branding and reputation management policy. Our case is a rural Norwegian municipality struggling to combat depopulation. This study is longitudinal. We discover that some ...

In political games, a good reputation is an invaluable asset. Hence, this research intends to expand the current understanding of the determinants of success imperative for the reputation of local political leaders. This article reviews the literature on reputation management, as well as empirical cases, to elucidate the reputational success factors of political leaders. Empirically, this study ...

Sosiale media har gjort sitt inntog i lokalpolitikken og er en viktig påvirkningskanal i valget. For lokalpolitikerne selv er sosiale media også en del av hverdagen. Hverdagsytringer på sosiale medier gjør at de kan komme nærmere borgernes meninger, få innspill til politikken og delta i politiske diskusjoner om saker de brenner for. Men engasjement på sosiale media har også en rekke ulemper. Vi ...

The article is based on a study of a local council in Australia where women representatives hold a majority of the seats. How do these representatives understand their role in this context? What is their preferred style of doing politics, and what can explain their political aims and behaviour? What we find is that these women representatives are oriented toward green politics and prefer ...