Per Lægreid

Per Lægreid's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Per Lægreid

Political Science

#2980

World Rank

#3492

Historical Rank

political-science Degrees

Download Badge

Political Science

Why Is Per Lægreid Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

(See a Problem?)

Per Lægreid's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

The Whole‐of‐Government Approach to Public Sector Reform (2007) (843)
TRUST IN GOVERNMENT: The Relative Importance of Service Satisfaction, Political Factors, and Demography (2005) (543)
New public management : the transformation of ideas and practice (2001) (388)
Transcending New Public Management: The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms (2013) (353)
Complexity and Hybrid Public Administration—Theoretical and Empirical Challenges (2011) (318)
Autonomy and regulation : coping with agencies in the modern state (2006) (290)
Organizing for Crisis Management: Building Governance Capacity and Legitimacy (2016) (251)
Government agencies : practices and lessons from 30 countries (2012) (244)
The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management (2010) (242)
Balancing Governance Capacity and Legitimacy: How the Norwegian Government Handled the COVID‐19 Crisis as a High Performer (2020) (216)
Organization Theory and the Public Sector: Instrument, Culture and Myth (2020) (181)
Regulatory Agencies—The Challenges of Balancing Agency Autonomy and Political Control (2007) (171)
New Public Management: Puzzles of Democracy and the Influence of Citizens (2002) (170)
NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: The effects of contractualism and devolution on political control (2001) (169)
The Challenge of Coordination in Central Government Organizations: The Norwegian Case (2007) (157)
Performance Management in Practice: the Norwegian Way (2006) (153)
New Public Management: Design, Resistance, or Transformation? A Study of How Modern Reforms Are Received in a Civil Service System (1999) (132)
COMPARING COORDINATION STRUCTURES FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT IN SIX COUNTRIES (2016) (120)
Transforming Administrative Policy (2002) (114)
Performance and Accountability—A Theoretical Discussion and an Empirical Assessment (2015) (112)
Reform of the employment and welfare administrations — the challenges of co-coordinating diverse public organizations (2007) (110)
Democracy and administrative policy: contrasting elements of New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM (2011) (103)
Performance Management and Public Sector Reform: The Norwegian Hospital Reform (2006) (102)
NPM and beyond — structure, culture and demography (2008) (97)
Europeanization and Transnational States: Comparing Nordic Central Governments (2003) (92)
Governance of Public Sector Organizations (2010) (90)
Autonomy and Regulation (2006) (89)
Governance of Public Sector Organizations: Proliferation, Autonomy and Performance (2010) (88)
Reorganizing the welfare state administration (2009) (84)
Explaining the Innovative Culture and Activities of State Agencies (2011) (83)
Autonomy and Control in the Norwegian Civil Service: Does Agency Form Matter? (2005) (77)
Administrative Reform Policy: The Challenges of Turning Symbols into Practice (2003) (75)
The Whole-of-Government Approach – Regulation, Performance, and Public-Sector Reform (2006) (74)
Europeanization of Central Government Administration in the Nordic States (2004) (72)
Beyond New Public Management: Agencification and Regulatory Reform in Norway (2008) (69)
Joined-Up Government for Welfare Administration Reform in Norway (2014) (66)
Coping with Complex Leadership Roles: The Problematic Redefinition of Government-owned Enterprises (2003) (63)
Changing Government Control in Norway: High Civil Service, Universities and Prisons (2003) (60)
Nordic Administrative Reforms: Lessons for Public Management (2016) (59)
HOW TO ASSESS ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM? INVESTIGATING THE ADOPTION AND PRELIMINARY IMPACTS OF THE NORWEGIAN WELFARE ADMINISTRATION REFORM (2010) (59)
The Structural Anatomy of the Norwegian State 1947-2003 (2003) (54)
Trust in Government – the Significance of Attitudes Towards Democracy, the Public Sector and Public Sector Reforms (2003) (52)
The coronavirus crisis—crisis communication, meaning-making, and reputation management (2020) (52)
The Many Faces of Accountability: Comparing Reforms in Welfare, Hospitals and Migration (2014) (51)
Governmental autonomisation and control: the Norwegian way (2004) (50)
Beyond NPM? Some Development Features (2010) (48)
The challenges of coordination in national security management – the case of the terrorist attack in Norway (2015) (47)
Competing principles of agency organization – the reorganization of a reform (2012) (46)
Living in the Past? Change and Continuity in the Norwegian Central Civil Service (2009) (46)
Controlling Regulatory Agencies (2008) (46)
Organizing for Coordination in the Public Sector (2014) (45)
Modern Management Tools in State Agencies: The Case of Norway (2007) (45)
New Coordination Challenges in the Welfare State (2015) (44)
Specialization and Coordination: Implications for Integration and Autonomy in a Multi-Level System (2005) (43)
After a Terrorist Attack: Challenges for Political and Administrative Leadership in Norway (2013) (42)
The Governance, Autonomy and Coordination of Public Sector Organizations (2008) (42)
*Framing the Field of Homeland Security: The Case of Norway (2006) (42)
Increasing Parliamentary Control of the Executive? New Instruments and Emerging Effects (2002) (40)
How to Carry Out Joined-Up Government Reforms: Lessons from the 2001–2006 Norwegian Welfare Reform (2009) (40)
After Oslo and Utøya: A Shift in the Balance Between Security and Liberty in Norway? (2013) (40)
Europeanization of Public Administration: Effects of the EU on the Central Administration in the Nordic States (2002) (39)
Understanding Organizational Reforms in the Modern State: Specialization and Integration in Norway and France (2013) (37)
Increased Complexity in Public Organizations — the Challenges of Combining NPM and Post-NPM (2010) (37)
Attitudes towards anti-terror measures: the role of trust, political orientation and civil liberties support (2011) (36)
Top Civil Servants Under Contract (2000) (36)
The Fragmented State – the Challenges of Combining Efficiency, Institutional Norms and Democracy (2004) (35)
Accountability and New Public Management (2014) (34)
Performance Information and Performance Steering: Integrated System or Loose Coupling? (2008) (33)
Organization Theory and the Public Sector (2020) (33)
Unpacking Nordic Administrative Reforms: Agile and Adaptive Governments (2020) (30)
The Routledge Handbook to Accountability and Welfare State Reforms in Europe (2016) (29)
The Structural Anatomy of the Norwegian State: Increased Specialization or a Pendulum Shift? (2010) (28)
Administrative coordination capacity; does the wickedness of policy areas matter? (2019) (27)
Complex Patterns of Interaction and Influence Among Political and Administrative Leaders (2002) (27)
Organizing Public Sector Agencies: Challenges and Reflections (2010) (23)
Regulatory Reforms and Agencification (2005) (22)
Crisis Management (2011) (21)
Democracy and administrative policy: Contrasting elements of NPM and post-NPM (2009) (21)
NPM and beyond - leadership, culture, and demography (2007) (20)
Ethics and Administrative Reforms (2011) (20)
Agencification and Corporatization in Norway 1947–2011 (2013) (19)
Just keep silent… Defensive silence as a reaction to successive structural reforms (2020) (19)
Reforming the Norwegian police between structure and culture: Community police or emergency police (2018) (19)
Gaming, Accountability and Trust: DRGs and Activity‐Based Funding in Norway (2016) (19)
Introduction: Reforming Public Sector Organizations (2010) (19)
Societal Security and Crisis Management: Governance Capacity and Legitimacy (2018) (18)
An Organization Approach to Public Administration (2018) (18)
Bending the Rules to Play the Game: Accountability, DRG and Waiting List Scandals in Norway and Germany (2015) (17)
Chapter 2 Post-NPM Reforms: Whole of Government Approaches as a New Trend (2011) (16)
New Public Management (2017) (16)
Reforms of Welfare Administration and Policy—A Comparison of Complexity and Hybridization: An Introduction (2009) (16)
Introduction – Theoretical Approach and Research Questions (2017) (16)
Introduction: Reforming the welfare state and the implications for accountability in a comparative perspective (2013) (16)
Organizing for Internal Security and Safety in Norway (2011) (16)
Modern Management Tools in Norwegian State Agencies: Regulation Inside Government or Shopping Basket? (2006) (16)
Hybrid Collaborative Arrangements: The welfare administration in Norway – between hierarchy and network (2015) (16)
Performance Management and Accountability: The Welfare Administration Reform in Norway and Germany (2015) (16)
Coordination challenges and administrative reforms (2016) (16)
Administrative Reforms in Western Democracies (2012) (15)
Contexts and administrative reforms: a transformative approach (2013) (15)
Organizing political institutions : essays for Johan P. Olsen (1999) (15)
A Transformative Perspective (2016) (15)
Civil Servants' Perceptions Regarding ICT Use in Norwegian Central Government (2010) (15)
Transitions in Civil Service Systems: Robustness and Flexibility in Human Resource Management (2015) (15)
Organising immigration policy: the unstable balance between political control and agency autonomy (2009) (15)
Coordination Quality in Central Government – the Case of Norway (2020) (14)
Emerging coordination practices of European central governments (2015) (13)
The Nordic Model Revisited: Active Reformers and High Performing Public Administrations (2016) (13)
New Public Management - are politicians losing control? (1999) (13)
Lessons Learned and Policy Implications (2014) (13)
Governance And Administrative Reforms (2012) (13)
Welfare Administration Reform Between Coordination and Specialization (2013) (12)
TRUST, QUALITY MEASUREMENT MODELS, AND VALUE CHAIN MONITORING: Introduction (2005) (12)
Regulating Regulatory Organizations: Controlling Norwegian Civil Service Organizations (2005) (12)
Living in the past? - tenure, roles and attitudes in the central civil service (2008) (12)
Public Management Reform in Norway: Reluctance and Tensions (2009) (12)
Crisis Management – The Case of Internal Security in Norway (2007) (11)
Ambiguities of Accountability and Attention – Analyzing the Failure of a Preventive Security Project (2016) (11)
Nordic administrative traditions (2017) (11)
Cross-Border Coordination Activities in Central Government Administration—Combining Organizational Conditions and Individual Features (2012) (10)
A System Under Stress: The Icelandic Volcano Ash Crisis (2013) (10)
Introduction: The Nordic Model in Transition (2016) (10)
THE GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL COHESION: INNOVATIVE COORDINATION PRACTICES IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT (2013) (10)
Modern Regulatory Agencies - Professional and Judicial Objectivity or Increased Complexity in Decision-Making? (2006) (10)
Accountability and Performance Management: The Norwegian Hospital, Welfare, and Immigration Administration (2015) (10)
GOVERNANCE FOR COMPLEXITY - HOW TO ORGANIZE FOR THE HANDLING OF 'WICKED ISSUES'? The case of internal security and the welfare administration in Norway (2014) (9)
Effects and implications (2007) (9)
Public Administration Research in Norway: Organization theory, institutionalism and empirical studies in a democratic context (2004) (9)
Organization theory for the public sector (2007) (9)
Regulation for Safe Food: A Comparison of Five European Countries (2008) (9)
22. juli kommisjonen. Organisering, styring og ansvar [The 22. July Commission. Organization, steering and accountability]. (2012) (9)
Europeanization of Nordic Central Governments: Towards a Transnational Regulatory State? (2005) (8)
Joined-up-government: Reform challenges, experiences and accountability relations (2012) (8)
Governing Public Agencies in the 21st Century. International lessons and policy recommendations by the COST Action IS0601 on ‘Comparative Research into Current Trends in Public Sector Organization CRIPO/COBRA' (2011) (7)
Implementation of Merger: Lessons from the Norwegian Welfare Bureaucracy (2008) (7)
Reputation Management in Times of Crisis: How the Police Handled the Norwegian Terrorist Attack in 2011 (2014) (7)
Administrative Reforms and Competence in Central Government Organizations (2008) (7)
Reforming the Welfare State: Accountability, Management, and Performance (2015) (7)
Trust quality measurement models, and value chain monitoring: symposium introduction (2005) (7)
Challenges and effects of administrative reform - Reorganizing the Norwegian welfare administration (2008) (7)
Accountability and performance in welfare administration reform. Comparing Norway and Germany (2014) (7)
HOW TO COPE WITH A TERRORIST ATTACK? - A CHALLENGE FOR THE POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP (2012) (6)
State organizations and agencies: A description of the Norwegian survey on organizational autonomy, steering and control (2004) (6)
Transforming states : continuity and change in the europeanisation of the Nordic central governments (2001) (6)
Keeping a watchful eye in times of turmoil? How repeated structural reform leads to more attention to political signals (2020) (6)
Welfare reform and «wicked issues» – from coupling to de-coupling? (2012) (6)
Gaming the system and accountability relations: Negative side-effects of activity-based funding in the Norwegian hospital system (2012) (6)
A Special Breed?– a Longitudinal and Cross‐Sectional Study of Norwegian Budgeting and Financial Civil Servants (2012) (5)
Norway: managerialism, incrementalism and collaboration (2016) (5)
Administrative Reform: Processes, Trends, and Content (2016) (5)
Changing accountability relations - the forgotten side of public sector reforms (2011) (5)
Accountability Relations in Unsettled Situations (2016) (5)
Scientization Under Pressure—The Problematic Role of Expert Bodies During the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (5)
Accountability and inter-organizational collaboration within the state (2021) (5)
Performance and Accountability—A Theoretical Discussion and an Empirical Assessment (2014) (5)
Coordination practice COORDINATING NORWEGIAN WELFARE : THE NAV REFORM (2013) (5)
Crisis Management Organization: Building Governance Capacity and Legitimacy (2014) (4)
Robust and Flexible States: The Transnationalisation of Nordic Central Administration (2004) (4)
Europeanization and transnational networks. A study of the Norwegian Competition Authority (2010) (4)
A Government that Worked Better and Cost Less? by Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon. Oxford: Oxford University, 2015. 256 pp. $50 (cloth). (2016) (4)
Christopher Hood, “A Public Management for All Seasons?” (2015) (4)
Changing accountability relations in a welfare state – an assessment based on a study of welfare reforms (2011) (4)
Public Administration Theories: Instrumental and Value Rationality (2016) (4)
The Demise of an Agency Director – A Puzzling Saga of Political Control and Professional Autonomy (2020) (4)
The Governance of Wicked Issues: A European Cross-Country Analysis of Coordination for Societal Security (2014) (4)
The New Regulatory Orthodoxy: A Critical Assessment (2011) (4)
Comparing governance, agencies and accountability in seven countries : CPA Survey Report (2018) (4)
Complex Interactions and Influence Among Political and Administrative Leaders (2003) (4)
Post New Public Management Reforms-Exploring the “Whole-of-Governmenty” Approach to Public Reform (2007) (3)
How to Balance Individual Rights and Societal Security? The View of Civil Servants (2019) (3)
The Co-evolution of Reputation Management, Governance Capacity, Legitimacy and Accountability in Crisis Management (2018) (3)
Nordic Administrative Collaboration: Scope, Predictors and Effects on Policy Design and Administrative Reform Measures (2020) (3)
Organization Theory: The Scandinavian Way (2007) (3)
Organizing Immigration – a Comparison of New Zealand and Norway (2017) (3)
ICT Use in Central Government: Scope, Predictors and Effects on Coordination Quality (2020) (3)
Changing accountability relations in welfare state reforms: Lessons from Norway (2012) (3)
Referees for the Journal of European Integration (2019) (2)
Reforming public sector organizations (2010) (2)
Agencification in Europe and Beyond: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward (2012) (2)
Accountability in Multilevel Health Care Services: The Case of Norway (2016) (2)
Coordination and hybrid governance – theoretical and empirical challenges (2009) (2)
The Whole-of-Government Approach to Modernisation (2007) (2)
Working across boundaries: Collegial administration in central government – scope, variation and effects (2010) (2)
Getting to Norway – 30 years of public management research: Theoretical, empirical and practical challenges (2017) (2)
Nordic Bureaucracy beyond New Public Management (2018) (2)
Accountability Relations in Unsettled Situations: Administrative Reforms and Crises (2015) (2)
Establishing a National Police Emergency Response Center: How Urgency Led to Delay (2018) (2)
Post New Public Management Reforms Empirical Tendencies and Scholarly Challenges (2007) (2)
The Regulatory Orthodoxy in Practice (2007) (2)
Performance management and accountability of welfare state agencies. The cases of Norwegian hospital, welfare and immigration administration (2014) (2)
Organizing for Societal Security and Crisis Management in Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK (2018) (2)
Organizational Innovations and Multiple Forms of Accountability in the Post-New Public Management Era (2016) (2)
Changes in the Norwegian Central Crisis Management After the Terrorist Attacks in 2011 (2018) (2)
Special Issue on The Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (2)
Public Administration Research in Norway: (2020) (2)
Reform and change (2007) (1)
Ethics, NPM and post-NPM. A study of patterns and tensions in the central civil service (2009) (1)
Welfare Reform And ‘wicked Issues’ - From Coupling To De-coupling? (Working Paper 5) (2012) (1)
The Challenge of Administrative Capacity and Transboundary Coordination. The Case of the Norwegian Police and Military (2018) (1)
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments (2022) (1)
Innovation in public management and gaming the system : The case of activity-based funding in Norwegian hospitals (2012) (1)
Designing Organizational Tools (2018) (1)
Reform Waves and the Structure of Government (2018) (1)
Anti-terrortiltak mellom personvern og samfunnsvern (2011) (1)
Democratic Accountability, Political Order, and Change. Johan P. Olsen. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2017. 240 pp. $82.50 (cloth) (2018) (1)
A Review of: "Transcending New Public Management: The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms edited by (2008) (1)
Governance Coordination Capacity and Quality. Does Wicked Policy Areas Matter (2018) (1)
Frå stabilitet til turbulens. 70 år med organisasjonsendringar i departementa – politisk design eller institusjonell tilpasning? (2017) (1)
Data, Methods, and Some Structural and Individual Characteristics (2016) (1)
The role of trust, religion and political affiliation in attitudes to anti-terror measures (2009) (1)
CHAPTER 3 in Change and Continuity in Public Sector Organizations : Essays in Honour of (2009) (0)
Author Correction: Special Issue on The Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (0)
Administrative reforms and accountability relations in the welfare states. Comparing health and labour administration in Norway, Denmark and Germany (2014) (0)
The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture? (2023) (0)
Effects, learning and implications (2020) (0)
Appendix: Institutional Arrangements Within the Field of Societal Security and Crisis Management in Germany, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands and the UK. 2018 (2018) (0)
Review of Liseng Dong: Public Administration Theories: Instrumental and Values Rationality (2016) (0)
Goals, values and motivation (2020) (0)
Political Control or Professional Autonomy? A Case of Agency Director Resignation (2020) (0)
A Norwegian tradition of studying public administration Bounded rationality and institutional features combined (2015) (0)
Goals and values (2007) (0)
Understanding and design (2007) (0)
Nyinstitusjonalisme, aktørar og autonomi innafor statsvitskap (2008) (0)
Governance Capacity and Legitimacy Revisited (2018) (0)
The challenge of transboundary coordination: The case of the Norwegian police and military (2019) (0)
Agencification as a global phenomenon. Introduction (2012) (0)
LaegreidWiseChaptTransitionsinCivilServiceIN Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century (2015) (0)
Same cheat, different wrapping: DRG scandals and accountability in Germany and Norway (2013) (0)
Introduction to the Symposium on coordination of public sector organisations in the era of marketization and joined-up government (2007) (0)
Performance Management (2021) (0)
ICT tools in central government (2008) (0)
ICT Tools in Central Government: Scope, Predictors and Effect on Coordination Quality (2020) (0)
HYBRID COLLABORATIVE ARRANGEMENTS (2015) (0)
An instrumental perspective (2007) (0)
Leadership and steering (2007) (0)
Coordination Quality in Central Government – the Case of Norway (2019) (0)
The Logic of Appropriateness – A Central Concept in Institutional Theory (2021) (0)
A cultural perspective (2007) (0)
Coordination Quality: Perceptions and Drivers Among Civil Servants (2019) (0)
Author Correction: Special Issue on The Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (0)
Reorganizing the Modern State in Comparative Perspective: Specialization and Integration in Norway and France (2010) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
Welfare Reforms, Accountability and Performance (2016) (0)
Cross-Border Coordination Activities in Central Government Administration—Combining Organizational Conditions and Individual Features (2012) (0)
A myth perspective (2007) (0)
Crisis Management Capacity in Central Government: The Perceptions of Civil Servants in Norway (2018) (0)
A Case of Agency Director Resignation (2020) (0)
Joined-Up Government for Welfare Administration Reform in Norway (2013) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

What Schools Are Affiliated With Per Lægreid?

Per Lægreid is affiliated with the following schools:

University of Bergen

Per Lægreid's Academic­Influence.com Rankings

Why Is Per Lægreid Influential?

Per Lægreid's Published Works

Published Works

What Schools Are Affiliated With Per Lægreid?

Per Lægreid's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings