Evaluation of government and public management in the Værnes region

Foto: Ruralis
Foto: Ruralis

Centre for Rural Research in collaboration with Nordlandforskning is to evaluate government and public management in the Værnes region, Norway. The Værnes region is an extensive cooperation between six municipalities. The cooperation is complex: in terms of service character (administrative services and services carrying out civic authority, such as child care services); in terms of kind of municipality (peri-urban with persistent growth, and smaller peripheral municipalities with persistent population decline); and a pletora of liaison committees. The cooperation is organised as partly administrative host municipality cooperation and partly with an elected committee.

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  • Article

2024

A-7/24 Same but different: On continuity and change in agricultural policy reforms

Contributors: Jostein Vik Arild A. Farsund
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Forfattere: Anders M. MelåsJostein Vik og Arild A. Farsund

This article contributes to the Historical Institutionalism literature on stability and change by unpacking how an institution has persisted for more than 70 years despite substantial contextual changes. The overall stability of the institution comes both through changes in policy instruments and their settings, and through the incorporation of differing, but aligned rationales. Ideational multidimensionality yields stability by providing leeway to recondition the institution in response to changing circumstances. This allows for different interests in the coalition to stimulate overall institutional stability by supporting incremental changes in policy instruments whilst avoiding institutional exhaustion and third order changes. This shows that policies initiated under a certain set of circumstances may be better equipped to persist when circumstances change if they are able to incorporate differing, but aligned, rationales and to respond to upcoming issues through policy instrument changes. The theoretical arguments are exemplified through a case study analysis of Norwegian agricultural policy.

Scand Political Stud. 2024;1–22, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12269

  • Note

2023

N-6/23 Holdninger til nye fôringredienser i jordbruk og norsk oppdrettsnæring, og muligheter for samarbeid på tvers av jordbruk og oppdrett. En kartlegging

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