Tore Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tore Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tore |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Growing Regional Administration
This article discusses the growth in the number of state regions in Norway in relation to two alternative theoretical perspectives on multi-level governance: a federal perspective and a club theoretical perspective. While the multi-functional and federal part of Norwegian regional government has been weakened over recent years, there has been a significant growth in the number of single-purpose regions and where the various regional divisions see…
Bokomtaler
Local Elections and Local Government Performance
Over the past couple of decades, the level of turnout in Norwegian local elections has shown a steady d. This decline is paralleled by a greater range of variation in turnout across Norwegian municipalities. Arguing from the perspective of rational utility‐maximizing voters, the article examines to what extent such variations in the level of turnout may be accounted for by the policy performance of local authorities – in addition to certain struc…
Voluntary Organisations and Community Politics
The study reported in this article compares local political activity of voluntary organizations in a Norwegian and an English city — Tromsø and Birmingham. The two cities display rather striking structural similarities with respect to the relative number of organizations as well as to organizational membership. The relative distribution of major types of organizations is also rather similar, although there is a greater degree of organizational sp…
Urban Hierarchies and Municipal Finances
The article examines how and to what extent municipal finances are affected by a city's position in an urban hierarchy. A distinction is made between collective and individual services on the one hand, and job‐ and residence‐related services on the other. It is hypothesized that job‐related collective services are more affected by a city's centrality than other services, and that residence‐related individual services are least affected. By and la…
The Politics of Local Planning in Norway
The aim of this article is to assess the political conditions for an efficient local planning, giving first an outline of the current planning system in Norway and turning then to the relationship between planning and local politics. The perceptions and attitudes of local concillors in relation to planning are presented on the basis of data from a questionnaire survey, which included about 400 local councillors in 16 Norwegian municipalities. The…
Central Controls and Local Budgeting Behaviour
Despite the increasing awareness among students of urban and local policy-making of the importance of central controls and regulations in shaping local policies, empirical research in this area still tends to treat local authorities as if they were more or less isolated, self-sufficient decision-making units. Attention has largely been confined to what David Easton calls the intrasocietal part of the system’s environment in searching for determin…
ECPR Joint Sessions, Berlin
Municipal Expenditures in Norway
The purpose of this article is to test some propositions about the effect of local ‘needs’, resources and political variables on municipal expenditures in 460 Norwegian communes. We have made use of a ‘means-end’-model of local autonomy to differentiate between municipal policies. We assume that the range of local discretion will vary along at least two dimensions: (1) the degree of local independence in framing the goals of the municipal activit…
Budgetary Strategies and Success at Multiple Decision Levels in the Norwegian Urban Setting
The purpose of this article is to test a series of propositions about budgetary decision making, in the form of linear decision models, for the municipal government of Oslo, Norway, and to assess the consequences of such strategic choices for the long-term growth of agency activities. Budgetary decisions for forty-seven agencies at each of the four principal decision-making levels over a nineteen-year period serve as the basis for analysis. Resul…
Budgetary Strategies and Success at Multiple Decision Levels in the Norwegian Urban Setting
The purpose of this article is to test a series of propositions about budgetary decision making, in the form of linear decision models, for the municipal government of Oslo, Norway, and to assess the consequences of such strategic choices for the long-term growth of agency activities. Budgetary decisions for forty-seven agencies at each of the four principal decision-making levels over a nineteen-year period serve as the basis for analysis. Resul…
Local Elections and Local Government Performance
Over the past couple of decades, the level of turnout in Norwegian local elections has shown a steady d. This decline is paralleled by a greater range of variation in turnout across Norwegian municipalities. Arguing from the perspective of rational utility‐maximizing voters, the article examines to what extent such variations in the level of turnout may be accounted for by the policy performance of local authorities – in addition to certain struc…
Municipal Expenditures in Norway
The purpose of this article is to test some propositions about the effect of local ‘needs’, resources and political variables on municipal expenditures in 460 Norwegian communes. We have made use of a ‘means-end’-model of local autonomy to differentiate between municipal policies. We assume that the range of local discretion will vary along at least two dimensions: (1) the degree of local independence in framing the goals of the municipal activit…
Voluntary Organisations and Community Politics
The study reported in this article compares local political activity of voluntary organizations in a Norwegian and an English city — Tromsø and Birmingham. The two cities display rather striking structural similarities with respect to the relative number of organizations as well as to organizational membership. The relative distribution of major types of organizations is also rather similar, although there is a greater degree of organizational sp…
Urban Hierarchies and Municipal Finances
The article examines how and to what extent municipal finances are affected by a city's position in an urban hierarchy. A distinction is made between collective and individual services on the one hand, and job‐ and residence‐related services on the other. It is hypothesized that job‐related collective services are more affected by a city's centrality than other services, and that residence‐related individual services are least affected. By and la…
The Politics of Local Planning in Norway
The aim of this article is to assess the political conditions for an efficient local planning, giving first an outline of the current planning system in Norway and turning then to the relationship between planning and local politics. The perceptions and attitudes of local concillors in relation to planning are presented on the basis of data from a questionnaire survey, which included about 400 local councillors in 16 Norwegian municipalities. The…
Central Controls and Local Budgeting Behaviour
Despite the increasing awareness among students of urban and local policy-making of the importance of central controls and regulations in shaping local policies, empirical research in this area still tends to treat local authorities as if they were more or less isolated, self-sufficient decision-making units. Attention has largely been confined to what David Easton calls the intrasocietal part of the system’s environment in searching for determin…
Budgetary Strategies and Success at Multiple Decision Levels in the Norwegian Urban Setting
The purpose of this article is to test a series of propositions about budgetary decision making, in the form of linear decision models, for the municipal government of Oslo, Norway, and to assess the consequences of such strategic choices for the long-term growth of agency activities. Budgetary decisions for forty-seven agencies at each of the four principal decision-making levels over a nineteen-year period serve as the basis for analysis. Resul…
Municipal Expenditures in Norway
The purpose of this article is to test some propositions about the effect of local ‘needs’, resources and political variables on municipal expenditures in 460 Norwegian communes. We have made use of a ‘means-end’-model of local autonomy to differentiate between municipal policies. We assume that the range of local discretion will vary along at least two dimensions: (1) the degree of local independence in framing the goals of the municipal activit…
ECPR Joint Sessions, Berlin
Central Controls and Local Budgeting Behaviour
Despite the increasing awareness among students of urban and local policy-making of the importance of central controls and regulations in shaping local policies, empirical research in this area still tends to treat local authorities as if they were more or less isolated, self-sufficient decision-making units. Attention has largely been confined to what David Easton calls the intrasocietal part of the system’s environment in searching for determin…
The Politics of Local Planning in Norway
The aim of this article is to assess the political conditions for an efficient local planning, giving first an outline of the current planning system in Norway and turning then to the relationship between planning and local politics. The perceptions and attitudes of local concillors in relation to planning are presented on the basis of data from a questionnaire survey, which included about 400 local councillors in 16 Norwegian municipalities. The…
Urban Hierarchies and Municipal Finances
The article examines how and to what extent municipal finances are affected by a city's position in an urban hierarchy. A distinction is made between collective and individual services on the one hand, and job‐ and residence‐related services on the other. It is hypothesized that job‐related collective services are more affected by a city's centrality than other services, and that residence‐related individual services are least affected. By and la…
Voluntary Organisations and Community Politics
The study reported in this article compares local political activity of voluntary organizations in a Norwegian and an English city — Tromsø and Birmingham. The two cities display rather striking structural similarities with respect to the relative number of organizations as well as to organizational membership. The relative distribution of major types of organizations is also rather similar, although there is a greater degree of organizational sp…
Local Elections and Local Government Performance
Over the past couple of decades, the level of turnout in Norwegian local elections has shown a steady d. This decline is paralleled by a greater range of variation in turnout across Norwegian municipalities. Arguing from the perspective of rational utility‐maximizing voters, the article examines to what extent such variations in the level of turnout may be accounted for by the policy performance of local authorities – in addition to certain struc…
Bokomtaler
The Growing Regional Administration
This article discusses the growth in the number of state regions in Norway in relation to two alternative theoretical perspectives on multi-level governance: a federal perspective and a club theoretical perspective. While the multi-functional and federal part of Norwegian regional government has been weakened over recent years, there has been a significant growth in the number of single-purpose regions and where the various regional divisions see…
Political science (8 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Local government (5 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (5 works) · Norwegian (5 works) · Politics (5 works)