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Increasing Parliamentary Control of the Executive? New Instruments and Emerging Effects.

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Author
Christensen, Tom & Per Lægreid, Paul G. Roness.

Year
2001

Publisher
Bergen: LOS-senteret. Notat 0121

Type of publication:
Notat

Link to publication:
http://los.rokkan.uib.no/losforsk/PDF/2001/Notat/N0121.pdf

Link to review:
http://los.rokkan.uib.no/DiaInfo.cfm?info=2418

Number of pages:
26

ISSN:
0802-3646

Language of publication:
Engelsk

Country of publication:
Norge

NSD-reference:
1832

This page was last updated:
2007-09-12 14:43:42.36

Affiliations related to this publication
  • Storting
  • Regjering
  • Stat
  • Departement
  • Sentraladministrative organ (direktorat m.m.)
  • Forvaltningsorgan med særskilte fullmakter
  • Forvaltningsbedrift
  • Andre ordinære forvaltningsorgan
  • Heleide statsaksjeselskap
  • Særlovsselskap
  • Statsforetak
  • Statsaksjeselskap (deleigd; majoritet)
Land som er gjenstand for studien
  • Norge
  • EU
Verkemiddel i den konstituerande styringa
  • 1.1 Organisering generelt
  • 1.2 Endring i tilknytningsform
Verkemiddel i den operative styringa av ststlege verksemder
  • 2.1 Formell styringsdialog
Studieoppdrag
  • Forskning
Studietype
  • Effektstudie/implikasjoner/resultater
Type effekt
  • Samfunnseffektivitet
  • Strukturelle og styringsmessige effektar
  • Verdimessige effektar
Sektor (cofog)
  • Utøvande og lovgivande myndigheiter K
  • Staten generelt

Summary
This article primarily describes and analyses the effects of the revitalised control
activities of the Norwegian parliament on the relationship between the legislature and
the executive and on the internal workings of the executive. Secondly, it discusses
whether these effects are constrained by modern New Public Management-oriented
reforms in the civil service and of Norway’s adaptation to the EU. The theoretical
frame of reference consists of three perspectives – a hierarchical, a negotiation and a
cultural-institutional one. The analysis is based on elite interviews with political and
administrative leaders, state company directors and respondents from the Office of the
Auditor General. The main conclusion is that the Parliament has got more control over
less – a more intense control focus over a narrower sphere.