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  1. Comparing COVID-19 Crisis Management Across the Nordic Societies

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  2. Norway and COVID-19: Governance Capacity and Legitimacy

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  3. Public Perceptions of Creeping Crises: Climate Change and Antimicrobial Resistance

    Article • Risk Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, November 2025, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  4. The agency model and autonomy

    Article • November 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Per Lægreid

  5. Cabinet Turbulence and Political Scandals—Accountability Under Pressure

    Article • Scandinavian Political Studies, July 2025, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  6. Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments?

    Article • Public Administration, March 2025, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  7. Future Directions of Public Administration Research—Addressing Fundamental Issues and Questions

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  8. NPM reconsidered: towards the study of enduring forms of NPM

    Article • Public Management Review, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  9. Reputation management in turmoil—An analysis of the clashing narratives in the introduction of a “salmon tax” in Norway

    Article • Review of Policy Research, May 2024, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  10. Organizational stability and resocialization in public administrations: Theory and evidence from Norwegian civil servants (1986–2016)

    Article • Public Administration, October 2023, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  11. Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of inquiry commission reports in Norway and Sweden

    Article • Policy and Society, August 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Per Lægreid

  12. The impact of terrorism on civil servants: Longitudinal evidence from the July 22, 2011 attack in Norway

    Article • Public Administration Review, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  13. Strategic public management in crises

    Article • April 2023, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Per Lægreid

  14. The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?

    Article • Administration & Society, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid

  15. Crisis Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Nordic Way and Swedish Exceptionalism

    Article • March 2023, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Per Lægreid

  16. Nordic Public Management Reforms Seen from the Top: Adaptive and Agile Governments

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  17. Taking stock: New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM reforms - trends and challenges

    Article • October 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Per Lægreid

  18. The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments

    Article • Regulation & Governance, October 2022, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  19. COVID-19 and Swedish exceptionalism

    Article • August 2022, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Per Lægreid

  20. Scientization Under Pressure—The Problematic Role of Expert Bodies During the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Public Organization Review, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  21. Unpacking Nordic Administrative Reforms: Agile and Adaptive Governments

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  22. Just keep silent… Defensive silence as a reaction to successive structural reforms

    Article • Public Management Review, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Jan Wynen, Professor Per Lægreid

  23. Administrative coordination capacity; does the wickedness of policy areas matter?

    Article • Policy and Society, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  24. Coordination Quality in Central Government – the Case of Norway

    Article • Public Organization Review, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  25. How to Balance Individual Rights and Societal Security? The View of Civil Servants

    Article • Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  26. Introduction: Analysing Organized Interests and Public Opinion Towards Welfare Reforms

    Article • November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Professor Per Lægreid

  27. Getting to Norway – 30 years of public management research

    Article • International Journal of Public Sector Management, August 2017, Emerald

    Professor Per Lægreid

  28. Reforming the Norwegian police between structure and culture: Community police or emergency police

    Article • Public Policy and Administration, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid

  29. Introduction: The Nordic Model in Transition

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  30. Organizing for “wicked problems” – analyzing coordination arrangements in two policy areas

    Article • International Journal of Public Sector Management, August 2015, Emerald

    Professor Per Lægreid

  31. COMPARING COORDINATION STRUCTURES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN SIX COUNTRIES

    Article • Public Administration, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  32. New Coordination Challenges in the Welfare State

    Article • Public Management Review, May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  33. Hybrid Collaborative Arrangements: The welfare administration in Norway – between hierarchy and network

    Article • Public Management Review, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  34. Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid,The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management

    Article • Local Government Studies, May 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  35. Accountability and New Public Management

    Article • May 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Per Lægreid

  36. Performance and Accountability—A Theoretical Discussion and an Empirical Assessment

    Article • Public Organization Review, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  37. The Many Faces of Accountability: Comparing Reforms in Welfare, Hospitals and Migration

    Article • Scandinavian Political Studies, December 2013, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  38. After Oslo and Utøya: A Shift in the Balance Between Security and Liberty in Norway?

    Article • Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  39. Agencification and Corporatization in Norway 1947–2011

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  40. Welfare Administration Reform Between Coordination and Specialization

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, July 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  41. Joined-Up Government for Welfare Administration Reform in Norway

    Article • Public Organization Review, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  42. After a Terrorist Attack: Challenges for Political and Administrative Leadership in Norway

    Article • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  43. Mulig litteratur

    Article • Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, January 2013, Norwegian Medical Association

    Professor Per Lægreid

  44. Introduction : La réforme de l'État-providence et les implications pour l'imputabilité dans une perspective comparative

    Article • Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, January 2013, CAIRN

    Professor Per Lægreid

  45. A System under Stress: The Icelandic Volcano Ash Crisis

    Article • Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, December 2012, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  46. THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT - edited by Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid

    Article • Public Administration, September 2012, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  47. Understanding Organizational Reforms in the Modern State: Specialization and Integration in Norway and France

    Article • Governance, August 2012, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  48. Cross-Border Coordination Activities in Central Government Administration—Combining Organizational Conditions and Individual Features

    Article • Public Organization Review, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  49. Governance And Administrative Reforms

    Article • March 2012

    Professor Per Lægreid

  50. A Special Breed?- A Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Study of Norwegian Budgeting and Financial Civil Servants

    Article • Financial Accountability and Management, January 2012, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  51. Les principes contradictoires de l'organisation des agences : la réorganisation d'une réforme

    Article • Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, January 2012, CAIRN

    Professor Per Lægreid

  52. The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management - By Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid

    Article • Governance, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  53. Explaining the Innovative Culture and Activities of State Agencies

    Article • Organization Studies, September 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid

  54. Attitudes towards anti-terror measures: the role of trust, political orientation and civil liberties support

    Article • Critical Studies on Terrorism, August 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  55. Crisis Management

    Article • Administration & Society, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid

  56. Ethics and Administrative Reforms

    Article • Public Management Review, March 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  57. Democracy and administrative policy: contrasting elements of New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM

    Article • European Political Science Review, February 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Per Lægreid

  58. Chapter 2 Post-NPM Reforms: Whole of Government Approaches as a New Trend

    Article • January 2011, Emerald

    Professor Per Lægreid

  59. Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges

    Article • Public Organization Review, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  60. Change and Continuity in Public Sector Organizations: Essays in Honour of Per Laegreid - Edited by Paul G. Roness and Harald Saetren

    Article • Governance, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  61. Civil Servants' Perceptions Regarding ICT Use in Norwegian Central Government

    Article • Journal of Information Technology & Politics, February 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  62. HOW TO ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM? INVESTIGATING THE ADOPTION AND PRELIMINARY IMPACTS OF THE NORWEGIAN WELFARE ADMINISTRATION REFORM

    Article • Public Administration, January 2010, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  63. Governance of Public Sector Organizations

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  64. Reforms of Welfare Administration and Policy—A Comparison of Complexity and Hybridization: An Introduction

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  65. How to Carry Out Joined-Up Government Reforms: Lessons from the 2001–2006 Norwegian Welfare Reform

    Article • International Journal of Public Administration, October 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  66. Living in the Past? Change and Continuity in the Norwegian Central Civil Service

    Article • Public Administration Review, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  67. Reorganizing the welfare state administration

    Article • Public Management Review, May 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  68. Organising immigration policy: the unstable balance between political control and agency autonomy

    Article • Policy & Politics, April 2009, Policy Press

    Professor Per Lægreid

  69. ORGANIZATION THEORY AND THE PUBLIC SECTOR: INSTRUMENT, CULTURE AND MYTH - by Tom Christensen, Per Laegreid, Paul G. Roness and Kjell Arne Rovik

    Article • Public Administration, March 2009, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  70. TRANSCENDING NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS - Edited by Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid

    Article • Public Administration, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  71. AUTONOMY AND REGULATION: COPING WITH AGENCIES IN THE MODERN STATE - Edited by Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid

    Article • Public Administration, September 2008, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  72. The Challenge of Coordination in Central Government Organizations: The Norwegian Case

    Article • Public Organization Review, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  73. The Governance, Autonomy and Coordination of Public Sector Organizations

    Article • Public Organization Review, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Per Lægreid

  74. Regulation for Safe Food: A Comparison of Five European Countries

    Article • Scandinavian Political Studies, May 2008, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  75. Controlling Regulatory Agencies

    Article • Scandinavian Political Studies, March 2008, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  76. NPM and beyond — structure, culture and demography

    Article • International Review of Administrative Sciences, March 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid

  77. BEYOND NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: AGENCIFICATION AND REGULATORY REFORM IN NORWAY

    Article • Financial Accountability and Management, January 2008, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  78. Le NMP et au-delà : structure, culture et démographie

    Article • Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, January 2008, CAIRN

    Professor Per Lægreid

  79. Organization Theory and the Public Sector

    Article • December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  80. Modern Management Tools in State Agencies: The Case of Norway

    Article • International Public Management Journal, November 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  81. The Whole-of-Government Approach to Public Sector Reform

    Article • Public Administration Review, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  82. Introduction

    Article • International Review of Administrative Sciences, September 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid

  83. Regulatory Agencies?The Challenges of Balancing Agency Autonomy and Political Control

    Article • Governance, July 2007, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  84. Modern Regulatory Policy – Ideals and Practice

    Article • Policy and Society, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Per Lægreid

  85. La coordination des organisations du secteur public à l'ère de la marchéisation et de l'administration décloisonnée

    Article • Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, January 2007, CAIRN

    Professor Per Lægreid

  86. La réforme des administrations de l'emploi et de la protection sociale

    Article • Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, January 2007, CAIRN

    Professor Per Lægreid

  87. Framing the Field of Homeland Security: The Case of Norway

    Article • Journal of Management Studies, September 2006, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  88. Performance Management in Practice: the Norwegian Way

    Article • Financial Accountability and Management, August 2006, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  89. Performance Management and Public Sector Reform: The Norwegian Hospital Reform

    Article • International Public Management Journal, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  90. Public Administration Research in Norway: Organization theory, institutionalism and empirical studies in a democratic context

    Article • Public Administration, August 2004, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  91. Europeanization of Central Government Administration in the Nordic States

    Article • JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, June 2004, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  92. Governmental autonomisation and control: the Norwegian way

    Article • Public Administration and Development, April 2004, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  93. Robust and Flexible States: the Transnationalisation of Nordic Central Administration

    Article • Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften, January 2004, De Gruyter

    Professor Per Lægreid

  94. Coping with Complex Leadership Roles: The Problematic Redefinition of Government-owned Enterprises

    Article • Public Administration, December 2003, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  95. Complex Interactions and Influence Among Political and Administrative Leaders

    Article • International Review of Administrative Sciences, September 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid

  96. Editors' Note

    Article • Scandinavian Political Studies, June 2003, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  97. New Public Management: Puzzles of Democracy and the Influence of Citizens

    Article • Journal of Political Philosophy, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  98. Transforming Administrative Policy

    Article • Public Administration, January 2002, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  99. NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: The effects of contractualism and devolution on political control

    Article • Public Management Review, March 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  100. NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: The effects of contractualism and devolution on political control

    Article • Public Management Review, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Per Lægreid

  101. Top Civil Servants Under Contract

    Article • Public Administration, January 2000, Wiley

    Professor Per Lægreid

  102. New Public Management: Design, Resistance, or Transformation? A Study of How Modern Reforms Are Received in a Civil Service System

    Article • Public Productivity & Management Review, December 1999, JSTOR

    Professor Per Lægreid

  103. New Public Management

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid

  104. Public Management Reform in Norway: Reluctance and Tensions

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Per Lægreid

  105. The New Regulatory Orthodoxy: A Critical Assessment

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Per Lægreid

  106. Contexts and administrative reforms: a transformative approach

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Per Lægreid

  107. Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Per Lægreid