An organization's social license to operate depends on how it acts according to social
norms, engages with stakeholders, and meets some kind of public interest. As will be …

This article focuses on perceived coordination quality among Norwegian civil servants. It
explains how they assess the quality of coordination in their own field of work along different …

This chapter is a tour of the Scandinavian lobbying landscape providing the state of the art
for research on a contested and necessary activity. We discuss the particular context of the …

Modern societies have become more fragmented, complex and dynamic, making broad
coalitions and public support imperative to achieving lobbying success. Thus, civil …

Political parties and interest groups are alternative intermediaries and both impact public
policy outcomes in democracies (Almond and Powell 1966; Dür and De Bièvre 2007; Klüver …

Frivillige organisasjoner er viktige for demokratiet som kanaler for medborgernes påvirkning
av politiske beslutninger, men de spiller i ulik grad en slik sivilsamfunnsrolle. Tidligere …

A vibrant civil society is important in a democratic system, and society's contact with,
opposition to and control of the political system is crucial for the democratic system to …

Gjennom Samhandlingsreformen som ble iverksatt fra 2012, tok staten i bruk flere
økonomiske insentiver for å oppmuntre kommunene til å overta en større del av ansvaret for …

Identifying a crisis for representative democracy in Western European party systems, this
essential book studies the widening gap between political parties' ideological economic Left …

Efforts to influence the policy process are typically labelled as lobbying (Baumgartner et al.,
2009). Lobbying is undertaken by a host of different actors, including businesses, trade …