Pål Erling Martinussen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1724178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pål Erling Martinussen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pål Erling |
| FAMILY NAME | Martinussen |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINUSSEN P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2280-5152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Somebody get me a doctor
BACKGROUND: The last couple of decades have seen a steady increase in the uptake of voluntary health insurance (VHI) across Europe. So far, very little is known about the impact of VHI on the health of the population and the possible inequalities in health. OBJECTIVE: We examined the relationship between VHI in European countries and the subjective health of its citizens in the period 2002-22, and whether this is contingent upon a person's social…
Mo Money Mo Problems? Economic Freedom and Subjective Happiness in Europe, 2010–2020
It is widely held that economic freedom is fundamental for a society’s prosperity and growth, and neoliberalism has now become the dominant ideology in shaping our world. While a large literature on economic freedom has documented mainly favourable impacts on economic outcomes, only a handful of studies have examined the link between economic freedom and life quality. Building on the most recent data available on European countries, we combined t…
Try a Little Tendering
The motivations behind local government contracting are an area of theoretical and empirical interest that can shed light on the forces shaping decision-making in public organizations. This paper examined the role of policy diffusion, political factors, and fiscal stress for local contracting. We used local government data from Norway in the period 2004–2016 containing information on whether the municipal administration used competition in 15 ser…
Computer World
Although research on the digitalization of public services has focused on many different areas, the role of digital public services (DPS) in shaping citizens’ well-being is a rather under-researched topic. This study investigates how inequalities and internet usage influence the relationship between digital public services (DPS) and individual well-being. Drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the digitalization paradox, and broader th…
OK computer
Recent attention to public service logic (PSL) has resulted in the creation of several theoretical guidelines for value creation. This empirical study applies PSL framework to explore how PSL is fit to and can adapt to the evolving landscape of the digitalization of public services. This research is based on 12 semi-structured interviews with managers of digital health services in Norway. Our results demonstrate that digital technology alters ser…
Don't stand so close to me
Stayin' alive
Our findings indicate that the shift towards intermediate care through the introduction of MAUs has increased performance within the public healthcare sector in Norway. Our findings indicate that the introduction of MAU have had a positive public health impact by lowering the mortality and readmission rates for the oldest population cohort in Norway. Our findings suggests that countries with comparatively similar healthcare systems as Norway coul…
Let's stick together
Previous studies of health system legitimacy have almost exclusively paid attention to patterns of service satisfaction and preference for state involvement. These two dimensions are related to substantial and procedural justice; i.e. the value of a certain policy and the way it is implemented. This study contributes to the research field by focusing on a third dimension that have been little studied so far: the willingness of citizens to contrib…
(I can't get no) satisfaction
European health reforms during the last decades have strengthened patient rights and introduced choice, competition and financial incentives in a sector that has typically been state-directed and centrally controlled. The marketisation of health care has also drawn out profit and introduced private provision. The main argument behind this trend is that market competition will improve service quality and deliver health services more efficiently. S…
Financial incentives and patient selection
This paper uses survey data to analyse physician views on the risk of cream skimming under a system with activity based financing (ABF) for hospital services. We used data from two nation-wide physician surveys. A survey undertaken in 2006 captures views following a large NPM-inspired structural reform in 2002. In contrast, a survey undertaken in 2016 captures views after a period of a higher degree of institutional and financial stability. We fi…
En søppelvogn til begjær
Norske kommuner benytter i varierende grad konkurranse og markedsmekanismer til å organisere renovasjonstjenestene. De vanligste begrunnelsene for å innføre slike reformer er ønsket om å øke effektiviteten og redusere kostnadene. Det finnes imidlertid begrenset litteratur om hvordan kommunal organisering av tjenester påvirker brukertilfredshet, og de få unntakene som eksisterer, har hovedsakelig fokusert på sosialtjenestene. I denne artikkelen un…
Happiness and the role of social protection
The growing literature on individual determinants of subjective well-being has given little attention to political factors. This paper considers the welfare state, and how social expenditure affects individuals’ self-reported life satisfaction. The statistical analysis uses indicators of subjective well-being, reflecting individuals from OECD-countries between 1980 and 2012, with data gathered from the Eurobarometer and the World Values Survey - …
The geography of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Resisting market-inspired reform in healthcare
Self‐interest or Ideology? The Attitude of Norwegian Medical Specialists towards Private Welfare Services
A striking common characteristic in many Western countries at the turn of the millennium is the debate on the role of private actors in public health care systems. Following the long line of Norwegian political scientists paying attention to attitudes towards privatization, this article uses data from 2005 on medical specialists to investigate their preferences for private welfare services, and to uncover the relative role of political ideology a…
Government Performance and Political Accountability at Subnational Level
Under which circumstances do voters turn against governing parties for their performance in office? This question forms the basis of the considerable research field often referred to as the ‘VP‐literature’, which seeks to explain support for governments as a function of economic and political outcomes. After thirty years and more than 200 studies the economic part of the VP‐function still remains much better explored than the political part. In a…
Majority Rule in Consensual Democracies
Norwegian local government has traditionally been strongly rooted in the consensus ideal. When the new Local Government Act of 1992 allowed the municipalities to introduce parliamentary models and abolished the statutory requirement of qualified majority decisions in the councils, this therefore implied a significant change in the local government ideal. Even though the municipalities have been reluctant to formally adopt a parliamentary model, t…
In Search of the Government in Local Government
The politics of European local government is often assumed to take place in a rather depoliticised and non‐partisan environment. This feature is especially apparent in Norway, where local government institutions are designed to create a high degree of consensus and accommodation. No local cabinet takes office, and therefore no formal roles of a majority government and an opposition are offered. This paper tells a different story, however. Followi…
Government Performance and Political Accountability at Subnational Level
Under which circumstances do voters turn against governing parties for their performance in office? This question forms the basis of the considerable research field often referred to as the ‘VP‐literature’, which seeks to explain support for governments as a function of economic and political outcomes. After thirty years and more than 200 studies the economic part of the VP‐function still remains much better explored than the political part. In a…
In Search of the Government in Local Government
The politics of European local government is often assumed to take place in a rather depoliticised and non‐partisan environment. This feature is especially apparent in Norway, where local government institutions are designed to create a high degree of consensus and accommodation. No local cabinet takes office, and therefore no formal roles of a majority government and an opposition are offered. This paper tells a different story, however. Followi…
Resisting market-inspired reform in healthcare
(I can't get no) satisfaction
European health reforms during the last decades have strengthened patient rights and introduced choice, competition and financial incentives in a sector that has typically been state-directed and centrally controlled. The marketisation of health care has also drawn out profit and introduced private provision. The main argument behind this trend is that market competition will improve service quality and deliver health services more efficiently. S…
Happiness and the role of social protection
The growing literature on individual determinants of subjective well-being has given little attention to political factors. This paper considers the welfare state, and how social expenditure affects individuals’ self-reported life satisfaction. The statistical analysis uses indicators of subjective well-being, reflecting individuals from OECD-countries between 1980 and 2012, with data gathered from the Eurobarometer and the World Values Survey - …
Self‐interest or Ideology? The Attitude of Norwegian Medical Specialists towards Private Welfare Services
A striking common characteristic in many Western countries at the turn of the millennium is the debate on the role of private actors in public health care systems. Following the long line of Norwegian political scientists paying attention to attitudes towards privatization, this article uses data from 2005 on medical specialists to investigate their preferences for private welfare services, and to uncover the relative role of political ideology a…
Majority Rule in Consensual Democracies
Norwegian local government has traditionally been strongly rooted in the consensus ideal. When the new Local Government Act of 1992 allowed the municipalities to introduce parliamentary models and abolished the statutory requirement of qualified majority decisions in the councils, this therefore implied a significant change in the local government ideal. Even though the municipalities have been reluctant to formally adopt a parliamentary model, t…
In Search of the Government in Local Government
The politics of European local government is often assumed to take place in a rather depoliticised and non‐partisan environment. This feature is especially apparent in Norway, where local government institutions are designed to create a high degree of consensus and accommodation. No local cabinet takes office, and therefore no formal roles of a majority government and an opposition are offered. This paper tells a different story, however. Followi…
Government Performance and Political Accountability at Subnational Level
Under which circumstances do voters turn against governing parties for their performance in office? This question forms the basis of the considerable research field often referred to as the ‘VP‐literature’, which seeks to explain support for governments as a function of economic and political outcomes. After thirty years and more than 200 studies the economic part of the VP‐function still remains much better explored than the political part. In a…
Majority Rule in Consensual Democracies
Norwegian local government has traditionally been strongly rooted in the consensus ideal. When the new Local Government Act of 1992 allowed the municipalities to introduce parliamentary models and abolished the statutory requirement of qualified majority decisions in the councils, this therefore implied a significant change in the local government ideal. Even though the municipalities have been reluctant to formally adopt a parliamentary model, t…
Self‐interest or Ideology? The Attitude of Norwegian Medical Specialists towards Private Welfare Services
A striking common characteristic in many Western countries at the turn of the millennium is the debate on the role of private actors in public health care systems. Following the long line of Norwegian political scientists paying attention to attitudes towards privatization, this article uses data from 2005 on medical specialists to investigate their preferences for private welfare services, and to uncover the relative role of political ideology a…
Resisting market-inspired reform in healthcare
The geography of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
En søppelvogn til begjær
Norske kommuner benytter i varierende grad konkurranse og markedsmekanismer til å organisere renovasjonstjenestene. De vanligste begrunnelsene for å innføre slike reformer er ønsket om å øke effektiviteten og redusere kostnadene. Det finnes imidlertid begrenset litteratur om hvordan kommunal organisering av tjenester påvirker brukertilfredshet, og de få unntakene som eksisterer, har hovedsakelig fokusert på sosialtjenestene. I denne artikkelen un…
Happiness and the role of social protection
The growing literature on individual determinants of subjective well-being has given little attention to political factors. This paper considers the welfare state, and how social expenditure affects individuals’ self-reported life satisfaction. The statistical analysis uses indicators of subjective well-being, reflecting individuals from OECD-countries between 1980 and 2012, with data gathered from the Eurobarometer and the World Values Survey - …
Financial incentives and patient selection
This paper uses survey data to analyse physician views on the risk of cream skimming under a system with activity based financing (ABF) for hospital services. We used data from two nation-wide physician surveys. A survey undertaken in 2006 captures views following a large NPM-inspired structural reform in 2002. In contrast, a survey undertaken in 2016 captures views after a period of a higher degree of institutional and financial stability. We fi…
Let's stick together
Previous studies of health system legitimacy have almost exclusively paid attention to patterns of service satisfaction and preference for state involvement. These two dimensions are related to substantial and procedural justice; i.e. the value of a certain policy and the way it is implemented. This study contributes to the research field by focusing on a third dimension that have been little studied so far: the willingness of citizens to contrib…
(I can't get no) satisfaction
European health reforms during the last decades have strengthened patient rights and introduced choice, competition and financial incentives in a sector that has typically been state-directed and centrally controlled. The marketisation of health care has also drawn out profit and introduced private provision. The main argument behind this trend is that market competition will improve service quality and deliver health services more efficiently. S…
Don't stand so close to me
Stayin' alive
Our findings indicate that the shift towards intermediate care through the introduction of MAUs has increased performance within the public healthcare sector in Norway. Our findings indicate that the introduction of MAU have had a positive public health impact by lowering the mortality and readmission rates for the oldest population cohort in Norway. Our findings suggests that countries with comparatively similar healthcare systems as Norway coul…
OK computer
Recent attention to public service logic (PSL) has resulted in the creation of several theoretical guidelines for value creation. This empirical study applies PSL framework to explore how PSL is fit to and can adapt to the evolving landscape of the digitalization of public services. This research is based on 12 semi-structured interviews with managers of digital health services in Norway. Our results demonstrate that digital technology alters ser…
Mo Money Mo Problems? Economic Freedom and Subjective Happiness in Europe, 2010–2020
It is widely held that economic freedom is fundamental for a society’s prosperity and growth, and neoliberalism has now become the dominant ideology in shaping our world. While a large literature on economic freedom has documented mainly favourable impacts on economic outcomes, only a handful of studies have examined the link between economic freedom and life quality. Building on the most recent data available on European countries, we combined t…
Try a Little Tendering
The motivations behind local government contracting are an area of theoretical and empirical interest that can shed light on the forces shaping decision-making in public organizations. This paper examined the role of policy diffusion, political factors, and fiscal stress for local contracting. We used local government data from Norway in the period 2004–2016 containing information on whether the municipal administration used competition in 15 ser…
Computer World
Although research on the digitalization of public services has focused on many different areas, the role of digital public services (DPS) in shaping citizens’ well-being is a rather under-researched topic. This study investigates how inequalities and internet usage influence the relationship between digital public services (DPS) and individual well-being. Drawing on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the digitalization paradox, and broader th…
Somebody get me a doctor
BACKGROUND: The last couple of decades have seen a steady increase in the uptake of voluntary health insurance (VHI) across Europe. So far, very little is known about the impact of VHI on the health of the population and the possible inequalities in health. OBJECTIVE: We examined the relationship between VHI in European countries and the subjective health of its citizens in the period 2002-22, and whether this is contingent upon a person's social…
Economics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Public economics (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Global Health Care Issues (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Business (5 works)