Leif E Kårtvedt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5916276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leif E Kårtvedt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leif E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kårtvedt |
| SIGNATURE | KÅRTVEDT L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9772-5416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hallucination in the Bureaucracy
What happens when artificial intelligence (AI) produces authoritative but false information in public decision‐making? This article examines an AI‐induced crisis in a Norwegian municipality where bureaucrats relied on ChatGPT‐generated content in a report to determine whether eight schools were to be permanently closed. The content was presented as legitimate research but was in fact hallucination by the AI technology, leading to an acute crisis …
More Specialization, More Coordination? Evidence From Local Public Service Delivery in Norway
Governments specialize their work by dividing tasks among organizational units. Because specialization creates a demand for coordination among tasks that are interdependent, governments are also expected to provide more coordination when specialization is higher. Although this challenge is pertinent in local service delivery, it is rarely studied systematically. This article examines whether the extent of local governments' coordination practices…
Larger, Not Leaner? Agencification and the Size of the Administrative Overhead in Local Governments
Governments establish agencies to enhance public service efficiency, aiming to improve government performance. However, agencification makes governments' service delivery more complex by putting service providers at arm's length from governments' control. To retain their capacity to support frontline service delivery, governments may expand their central administrative overhead. Conceptually, overhead constitutes resources available to support pr…
Larger, Not Leaner? Agencification and the Size of the Administrative Overhead in Local Governments
Governments establish agencies to enhance public service efficiency, aiming to improve government performance. However, agencification makes governments' service delivery more complex by putting service providers at arm's length from governments' control. To retain their capacity to support frontline service delivery, governments may expand their central administrative overhead. Conceptually, overhead constitutes resources available to support pr…
Larger, Not Leaner? Agencification and the Size of the Administrative Overhead in Local Governments
Governments establish agencies to enhance public service efficiency, aiming to improve government performance. However, agencification makes governments' service delivery more complex by putting service providers at arm's length from governments' control. To retain their capacity to support frontline service delivery, governments may expand their central administrative overhead. Conceptually, overhead constitutes resources available to support pr…
Hallucination in the Bureaucracy
What happens when artificial intelligence (AI) produces authoritative but false information in public decision‐making? This article examines an AI‐induced crisis in a Norwegian municipality where bureaucrats relied on ChatGPT‐generated content in a report to determine whether eight schools were to be permanently closed. The content was presented as legitimate research but was in fact hallucination by the AI technology, leading to an acute crisis …
More Specialization, More Coordination? Evidence From Local Public Service Delivery in Norway
Governments specialize their work by dividing tasks among organizational units. Because specialization creates a demand for coordination among tasks that are interdependent, governments are also expected to provide more coordination when specialization is higher. Although this challenge is pertinent in local service delivery, it is rarely studied systematically. This article examines whether the extent of local governments' coordination practices…
Norwegian (2 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (2 works) · Accountability (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Corporate governance (1 work) · E-Government and Public Services (1 work) · Empirical research (1 work) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (1 work)