Andreas Eriksen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Eriksen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Eriksen |
| SIGNATURE | ERIKSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7229-6902 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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Multilevel Reasoning: Conciliation and Deference in Complex Administrative Orders
How to assess the agency of administrative bodies in systems of complex interdependence? The article develops a concept of multilevel reasoning that is constituted by two attitudes towards inter-institutional challenges: constructive conciliation and well-placed deference. The article explains how this concept helps us interpret the evaluations of two scandals of welfare administration in Norway and the Netherlands. These cases exemplify why lack…
Symposium: Professional Complexity and the Future Study of Professions
Polyphonic agency as precondition for teachers’ research literacy
This article provides a conceptual clarification of the complementary relationship between teachers’ research literacy and their role-based agency. In many countries, teachers are increasingly expected to actively use and develop research. However, without taking account of teachers’ distinct conditions of agency, this expectation may weaken rather than strengthen the profession. Top-down mechanisms that push teachers to follow rigid evidence-bas…
Educational Research Literacy: Philosophical Foundations and Empirical Applications
The paper offers a novel philosophical perspective on how research literacy should be conceptualised in the educational domain. Standard accounts of teacher research literacy consider it merely a subset of the skills of an educational researcher. Therefore, the accounts largely ignore the need to anchor or embed the mode of engagement with research in the particular demands of the professional role. By contrast, we argue that a virtue-based accou…
Accountability through mutual attunement: How can parliamentary hearings connect the elected and the unelected
The increased authority delegated to independent agencies raises questions about the conditions of politically accountable governance, and specifically parliament’s role as a representative institution. Focusing on committee hearings as an accountability mechanism, we ask: How can a parliament employ hearings to ensure that the ends pursued by agencies have a democratic foundation? We propose a model of “mutual attunement” where accountability re…
The Research Literacy of Professionals: Reconciling Evidence-Based Practice and Practical Wisdom
There is widespread agreement that the art/science dichotomy is obsolete; professional practice must accommodate both experience-based judgment and evidence-based tools. However, there is little agreement on what this reconciliation entails, partly because we lack a conceptualization of the professional agency involved. What kind of intellectual ability is needed for the translation of research into practice? This article argues that we need a ne…
Political values in independent agencies
Despite that independent agencies are typically justified in terms of technical efficiency, they inevitably have to make political judgments. How can political reasoning be legitimate in such institutions? This paper starts by investigating the merits of two prominent models. The “avoidance model” asks agency reasoning to stick to empirical facts and as far as possible stay clear of political values. By contrast, the “specification model” recogni…
Accountability and the Multidimensional Mandate
Public organizations are subject to many kinds of control mechanisms and analysts worry that they often suffer from an “accountability overload.” This article argues that such diagnoses are typically set without an adequate demarcation criterion for identifying accountability practices and separating them from other kinds of interaction, such as strategic pursuit of power or reputational standing. In response, the suggestion is that accountabilit…
The Political Literacy of Experts
Expert agencies are entrusted with public authority in virtue of their technical competence. Areas such as environmental protection, food safety, or market stability are regulated with the backing of professional judgments regarding complex technical matters. But there is a clear political dimension to the work; regulation involves particular ways of framing problems and solutions. The very practice of regulation is bound up with evaluative conce…
Welfare reform and public justification
This paper investigates the conditions of political argument with regard to welfare legislation. It connects to the discussion on the role of ideas in political change but develops a new approach by investigating arguments in light of theories of public justification in a democratic society. The paper uses a recent Norwegian law as the case for studying how politicians frame their arguments for “mandatory activation,” meaning the policy that requ…
Reclaiming Responsibility: The Case of Welfare-to-Work Policy
Welfare-to-work programmes have a contested normative foundation. Critics argue that 'citizen responsibility' is being promoted to the sacrifice of more important social values, such as solidarity and fairness. This paper seeks to recapture what is valuable in citizen responsibility and to challenge the idea that the concept is intrinsically bound up with detrimental policy strategies. The paper develops a view of the responsible citizen as an ap…
Rune Ervik, Nanna Kildal & EvenNilssen (red.): New Contractualism in European Welfare State Policies
Should Eudaimonia Structure Professional Virtue: Professional Virtue
This article develops a eudaimonistic account of professional virtue. Using the case of teaching, the article argues that professional virtue requires that role holders care about the ends of their work. Care is understood in terms of an investment of the self. Virtuous role holders are invested in their practice in a way that makes professional excellence part of their own good. Failure to care about the ends of professional practice reveals a l…
Political values in independent agencies
Despite that independent agencies are typically justified in terms of technical efficiency, they inevitably have to make political judgments. How can political reasoning be legitimate in such institutions? This paper starts by investigating the merits of two prominent models. The “avoidance model” asks agency reasoning to stick to empirical facts and as far as possible stay clear of political values. By contrast, the “specification model” recogni…
Welfare reform and public justification
This paper investigates the conditions of political argument with regard to welfare legislation. It connects to the discussion on the role of ideas in political change but develops a new approach by investigating arguments in light of theories of public justification in a democratic society. The paper uses a recent Norwegian law as the case for studying how politicians frame their arguments for “mandatory activation,” meaning the policy that requ…
Accountability and the Multidimensional Mandate
Public organizations are subject to many kinds of control mechanisms and analysts worry that they often suffer from an “accountability overload.” This article argues that such diagnoses are typically set without an adequate demarcation criterion for identifying accountability practices and separating them from other kinds of interaction, such as strategic pursuit of power or reputational standing. In response, the suggestion is that accountabilit…
Reclaiming Responsibility: The Case of Welfare-to-Work Policy
Welfare-to-work programmes have a contested normative foundation. Critics argue that 'citizen responsibility' is being promoted to the sacrifice of more important social values, such as solidarity and fairness. This paper seeks to recapture what is valuable in citizen responsibility and to challenge the idea that the concept is intrinsically bound up with detrimental policy strategies. The paper develops a view of the responsible citizen as an ap…
Accountability through mutual attunement: How can parliamentary hearings connect the elected and the unelected
The increased authority delegated to independent agencies raises questions about the conditions of politically accountable governance, and specifically parliament’s role as a representative institution. Focusing on committee hearings as an accountability mechanism, we ask: How can a parliament employ hearings to ensure that the ends pursued by agencies have a democratic foundation? We propose a model of “mutual attunement” where accountability re…
Should Eudaimonia Structure Professional Virtue: Professional Virtue
This article develops a eudaimonistic account of professional virtue. Using the case of teaching, the article argues that professional virtue requires that role holders care about the ends of their work. Care is understood in terms of an investment of the self. Virtuous role holders are invested in their practice in a way that makes professional excellence part of their own good. Failure to care about the ends of professional practice reveals a l…
Should Eudaimonia Structure Professional Virtue: Professional Virtue
This article develops a eudaimonistic account of professional virtue. Using the case of teaching, the article argues that professional virtue requires that role holders care about the ends of their work. Care is understood in terms of an investment of the self. Virtuous role holders are invested in their practice in a way that makes professional excellence part of their own good. Failure to care about the ends of professional practice reveals a l…
Rune Ervik, Nanna Kildal & EvenNilssen (red.): New Contractualism in European Welfare State Policies
Welfare reform and public justification
This paper investigates the conditions of political argument with regard to welfare legislation. It connects to the discussion on the role of ideas in political change but develops a new approach by investigating arguments in light of theories of public justification in a democratic society. The paper uses a recent Norwegian law as the case for studying how politicians frame their arguments for “mandatory activation,” meaning the policy that requ…
Reclaiming Responsibility: The Case of Welfare-to-Work Policy
Welfare-to-work programmes have a contested normative foundation. Critics argue that 'citizen responsibility' is being promoted to the sacrifice of more important social values, such as solidarity and fairness. This paper seeks to recapture what is valuable in citizen responsibility and to challenge the idea that the concept is intrinsically bound up with detrimental policy strategies. The paper develops a view of the responsible citizen as an ap…
The Political Literacy of Experts
Expert agencies are entrusted with public authority in virtue of their technical competence. Areas such as environmental protection, food safety, or market stability are regulated with the backing of professional judgments regarding complex technical matters. But there is a clear political dimension to the work; regulation involves particular ways of framing problems and solutions. The very practice of regulation is bound up with evaluative conce…
Political values in independent agencies
Despite that independent agencies are typically justified in terms of technical efficiency, they inevitably have to make political judgments. How can political reasoning be legitimate in such institutions? This paper starts by investigating the merits of two prominent models. The “avoidance model” asks agency reasoning to stick to empirical facts and as far as possible stay clear of political values. By contrast, the “specification model” recogni…
Accountability and the Multidimensional Mandate
Public organizations are subject to many kinds of control mechanisms and analysts worry that they often suffer from an “accountability overload.” This article argues that such diagnoses are typically set without an adequate demarcation criterion for identifying accountability practices and separating them from other kinds of interaction, such as strategic pursuit of power or reputational standing. In response, the suggestion is that accountabilit…
The Research Literacy of Professionals: Reconciling Evidence-Based Practice and Practical Wisdom
There is widespread agreement that the art/science dichotomy is obsolete; professional practice must accommodate both experience-based judgment and evidence-based tools. However, there is little agreement on what this reconciliation entails, partly because we lack a conceptualization of the professional agency involved. What kind of intellectual ability is needed for the translation of research into practice? This article argues that we need a ne…
Educational Research Literacy: Philosophical Foundations and Empirical Applications
The paper offers a novel philosophical perspective on how research literacy should be conceptualised in the educational domain. Standard accounts of teacher research literacy consider it merely a subset of the skills of an educational researcher. Therefore, the accounts largely ignore the need to anchor or embed the mode of engagement with research in the particular demands of the professional role. By contrast, we argue that a virtue-based accou…
Accountability through mutual attunement: How can parliamentary hearings connect the elected and the unelected
The increased authority delegated to independent agencies raises questions about the conditions of politically accountable governance, and specifically parliament’s role as a representative institution. Focusing on committee hearings as an accountability mechanism, we ask: How can a parliament employ hearings to ensure that the ends pursued by agencies have a democratic foundation? We propose a model of “mutual attunement” where accountability re…
Polyphonic agency as precondition for teachers’ research literacy
This article provides a conceptual clarification of the complementary relationship between teachers’ research literacy and their role-based agency. In many countries, teachers are increasingly expected to actively use and develop research. However, without taking account of teachers’ distinct conditions of agency, this expectation may weaken rather than strengthen the profession. Top-down mechanisms that push teachers to follow rigid evidence-bas…
Multilevel Reasoning: Conciliation and Deference in Complex Administrative Orders
How to assess the agency of administrative bodies in systems of complex interdependence? The article develops a concept of multilevel reasoning that is constituted by two attitudes towards inter-institutional challenges: constructive conciliation and well-placed deference. The article explains how this concept helps us interpret the evaluations of two scandals of welfare administration in Norway and the Netherlands. These cases exemplify why lack…
Symposium: Professional Complexity and the Future Study of Professions
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Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law and economics (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Economics (4 works)