Forfatter

Lægreid, Per, Paul G. Roness & Kristin Rubecksen

Årstall

2008

Utgiver

Scandinavian Political Studies Volume 31, Issue 1, pages 1–26, March 2008

Publikasjonstype:

Tidsskriftsartikkel

Fulltekst:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2008.00193.x/full

Omtale:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2008.00193.x/abstract

Antall sider:

25

ISSN-nummer:

1467-9477

Publiseringsspråk:

Engelsk

Land publikasjonen kommer fra:

Norge

NSD-referanse:

3067

Disse opplysningene er sist endret:

21/5 2014

Sammendrag
This article describes the regulatory agencies in Norway as part of the population of state agencies by focusing on who controls and what is controlled and how. The authors analyze whether regulatory agencies are regulated and controlled to different degrees, by different external actors, and in different ways than other agencies, and on whether this control focuses on different aspects. They also examine whether the variation in regulation and control according to type of agency task is sustained if one controls for structural and cultural features. The empirical basis is a broad survey of Norwegian state agencies carried out in 2004, and the theoretical approaches embrace a task-specific, a structural-instrumental and a cultural-institutional perspective. The authors find that regulatory tasks represent a major activity for state agencies in Norway and that external control by both the executive and the legislative bodies of agencies is rather significant. Moreover, in contrast to what one would expect, given current regulatory orthodoxy, regulatory agencies are controlled to a larger extent than other agencies.