Hilde Bjørnå
Biographic Data
| ID | 1127240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilde Bjørnå |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilde |
| FAMILY NAME | Bjørnå |
| SIGNATURE | BJØRNÅ H |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1091-3896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Does Size Matter for the Relationship Between Politics and Administration
Owing to public administrations' expansion of their roles in policy design and coordination, concerns about bureaucratic power have reemerged across democratic systems. However, little is known concerning how elected politicians experience and interpret administrative influence, particularly in local governments, in which administrative capacity often rivals political authority. This study examined how local politicians perceive administrative in…
Navigating turbulence: Adaptive local governance responses to the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the Norwegian Arctic
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine profoundly disrupted Arctic governance, challenging the long-standing notion of Arctic exceptionalism and creating enduring turbulence. While scholarly debate has largely focused on geopolitical and institutional consequences, the local-level impacts remain underexamined. This study investigates adaptive governance (AG) responses to the war’s effects in Norway’s northernmost counties, Troms and Finnmark, wh…
Makro-deliberasjon i lokalpolitiske debatter: Macro-deliberation in Local Political Debates
Denne artikkelen setter søkelys på deliberativt demokrati i samfunnsdebatten gjennom å belyse ulike arenaer hvor et lokalt vekst/vern-problem diskuteres i forbindelse med utbyggingen av et større reiselivsanlegg, Arctic Center i Tromsø. Formålet er å finne ut i hvilken grad ulike arenaer ivaretar sentrale deliberative elementer, hvordan arenaene virker i forhold til hverandre, og hvordan de kan påvirke meningsutveksling og meningsdannelse. Vi ser…
Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: A case study from Norway
The focus of this study is the political trust implications of territorial reforms, approaches to territorial reform, and the effects of the mobilisation of political-territorial collective identities. We focus on the political trust effects of political-territorial mobilisation grounded on territorial reforms, and of voluntary and forced structural reforms. The case examined is that of Norway, a country characterised by high levels of trust befo…
Local politicians in the age of new media
This paper discusses the impact of new media on local politics and politicians in a highly digitalised and advanced democracy. Through case studies and interviews of elite representatives in three Norwegian municipalities, the paper's ambition is to gain further understanding of the use of new media at the local political level and how new media influence and shape the role of local political representatives. To this aim we engage with establishe…
From Public to Private Accountability in Norwegian Local Government
This article discusses the consequences of changing views on accountability in democratic decision-making. Trends in Norway indicate that Norwegians are evaluating local democracy increasingly in terms of service performance and output, rather than in terms of political input from citizens. While traditional process evaluation is associated with governmental hierarchies and how voters can make elected representatives accountable for their policie…
The centre–periphery dimension and trust in politicians: The case of Norway
Scholars have often studied social, political and economic factors affecting trust. This paper considers the relationship between spatial location and trust in politicians. It is hypothesized that the centre–periphery framework developed by Stein Rokkan has explanatory value for the study of trust in politicians. By using multilevel regression analysis on a large-N survey on a crucial case (Norway), the paper controls for the urban–rural divide a…
Reputation reform strategies in local government: Investigating Denmark and Norway
This article investigates reputation reform in Norwegian and Danish local government and whether they have the same strategy content depending on the degree of administrative involvement and municipality size. Political and administrative actors are likely to cultivate different types of reputation strategies (place or organisational reputation), which explicitly embrace the potentially diverging interests cultivated by the two types of actors. W…
Formannskapsmodell i redesign – legitimitetsforståelseni Tromsøs nye styringsform
Artikkelen dreier seg om omlegging av lokalpolitisk styringsform. Den tar for seg Tromsø kommune som har hatt formannskapsstyre, så parlamentarisk styre, og går tilbake til formannskapsmodellen. Artikkelen setter søkelys på kommunens handlingsrom og evne til å tilpasse\npolitiske styringsmodeller til lokale erfaringer og utfordringer. Den spør om det er noe av det\nlegitimitetsgrunnlaget som lå i den parlamentariske modellen som dras med inn i de…
Two networks, one city: Democracy and governance networks in urban transformation
Governance networks are increasingly important in urban planning, in policy implementation and in service provision, and are often organized to improve efficiency and innovation in the pursuit of some public purpose. We argue that their democratic merits, in addition to their efficiency and output aspects, must be taken into consideration if they are to be understood as legitimate problem solvers on behalf of a local democratic authority. Here we…
Prefectoral Systems and Central?Local Government Relations in Scandinavia
The centre–periphery dimension and trust in politicians: The case of Norway
Scholars have often studied social, political and economic factors affecting trust. This paper considers the relationship between spatial location and trust in politicians. It is hypothesized that the centre–periphery framework developed by Stein Rokkan has explanatory value for the study of trust in politicians. By using multilevel regression analysis on a large-N survey on a crucial case (Norway), the paper controls for the urban–rural divide a…
Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: A case study from Norway
The focus of this study is the political trust implications of territorial reforms, approaches to territorial reform, and the effects of the mobilisation of political-territorial collective identities. We focus on the political trust effects of political-territorial mobilisation grounded on territorial reforms, and of voluntary and forced structural reforms. The case examined is that of Norway, a country characterised by high levels of trust befo…
Reputation reform strategies in local government: Investigating Denmark and Norway
This article investigates reputation reform in Norwegian and Danish local government and whether they have the same strategy content depending on the degree of administrative involvement and municipality size. Political and administrative actors are likely to cultivate different types of reputation strategies (place or organisational reputation), which explicitly embrace the potentially diverging interests cultivated by the two types of actors. W…
Prefectoral Systems and Central?Local Government Relations in Scandinavia
Two networks, one city: Democracy and governance networks in urban transformation
Governance networks are increasingly important in urban planning, in policy implementation and in service provision, and are often organized to improve efficiency and innovation in the pursuit of some public purpose. We argue that their democratic merits, in addition to their efficiency and output aspects, must be taken into consideration if they are to be understood as legitimate problem solvers on behalf of a local democratic authority. Here we…
Prefectoral Systems and Central?Local Government Relations in Scandinavia
Two networks, one city: Democracy and governance networks in urban transformation
Governance networks are increasingly important in urban planning, in policy implementation and in service provision, and are often organized to improve efficiency and innovation in the pursuit of some public purpose. We argue that their democratic merits, in addition to their efficiency and output aspects, must be taken into consideration if they are to be understood as legitimate problem solvers on behalf of a local democratic authority. Here we…
Formannskapsmodell i redesign – legitimitetsforståelseni Tromsøs nye styringsform
Artikkelen dreier seg om omlegging av lokalpolitisk styringsform. Den tar for seg Tromsø kommune som har hatt formannskapsstyre, så parlamentarisk styre, og går tilbake til formannskapsmodellen. Artikkelen setter søkelys på kommunens handlingsrom og evne til å tilpasse\npolitiske styringsmodeller til lokale erfaringer og utfordringer. Den spør om det er noe av det\nlegitimitetsgrunnlaget som lå i den parlamentariske modellen som dras med inn i de…
The centre–periphery dimension and trust in politicians: The case of Norway
Scholars have often studied social, political and economic factors affecting trust. This paper considers the relationship between spatial location and trust in politicians. It is hypothesized that the centre–periphery framework developed by Stein Rokkan has explanatory value for the study of trust in politicians. By using multilevel regression analysis on a large-N survey on a crucial case (Norway), the paper controls for the urban–rural divide a…
Reputation reform strategies in local government: Investigating Denmark and Norway
This article investigates reputation reform in Norwegian and Danish local government and whether they have the same strategy content depending on the degree of administrative involvement and municipality size. Political and administrative actors are likely to cultivate different types of reputation strategies (place or organisational reputation), which explicitly embrace the potentially diverging interests cultivated by the two types of actors. W…
From Public to Private Accountability in Norwegian Local Government
This article discusses the consequences of changing views on accountability in democratic decision-making. Trends in Norway indicate that Norwegians are evaluating local democracy increasingly in terms of service performance and output, rather than in terms of political input from citizens. While traditional process evaluation is associated with governmental hierarchies and how voters can make elected representatives accountable for their policie…
Local politicians in the age of new media
This paper discusses the impact of new media on local politics and politicians in a highly digitalised and advanced democracy. Through case studies and interviews of elite representatives in three Norwegian municipalities, the paper's ambition is to gain further understanding of the use of new media at the local political level and how new media influence and shape the role of local political representatives. To this aim we engage with establishe…
Territorial reforms, mobilisation, and political trust: A case study from Norway
The focus of this study is the political trust implications of territorial reforms, approaches to territorial reform, and the effects of the mobilisation of political-territorial collective identities. We focus on the political trust effects of political-territorial mobilisation grounded on territorial reforms, and of voluntary and forced structural reforms. The case examined is that of Norway, a country characterised by high levels of trust befo…
Navigating turbulence: Adaptive local governance responses to the consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine in the Norwegian Arctic
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine profoundly disrupted Arctic governance, challenging the long-standing notion of Arctic exceptionalism and creating enduring turbulence. While scholarly debate has largely focused on geopolitical and institutional consequences, the local-level impacts remain underexamined. This study investigates adaptive governance (AG) responses to the war’s effects in Norway’s northernmost counties, Troms and Finnmark, wh…
Makro-deliberasjon i lokalpolitiske debatter: Macro-deliberation in Local Political Debates
Denne artikkelen setter søkelys på deliberativt demokrati i samfunnsdebatten gjennom å belyse ulike arenaer hvor et lokalt vekst/vern-problem diskuteres i forbindelse med utbyggingen av et større reiselivsanlegg, Arctic Center i Tromsø. Formålet er å finne ut i hvilken grad ulike arenaer ivaretar sentrale deliberative elementer, hvordan arenaene virker i forhold til hverandre, og hvordan de kan påvirke meningsutveksling og meningsdannelse. Vi ser…
Does Size Matter for the Relationship Between Politics and Administration
Owing to public administrations' expansion of their roles in policy design and coordination, concerns about bureaucratic power have reemerged across democratic systems. However, little is known concerning how elected politicians experience and interpret administrative influence, particularly in local governments, in which administrative capacity often rivals political authority. This study examined how local politicians perceive administrative in…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Norwegian (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Economics (4 works)