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How Regional Authorities Act Under Restricted Decentralization: Evidence from the Norwegian Transport Sector

Krogstad, Julie Runde; Leiren, Merethe Dotterud
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2759325
Date
2019
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Scandinavian journal of public administration. 2019, 23 (2), 79-96.  
Abstract
The literature on decentralization points out that there is a tendency to limit discretion at

the local level by, for example, imposing national standards. It is therefore of interest to

understand how sub-national authorities act under conditions of political decentralization,

which is not followed by a similar delegation of administrative competence. Are sub national authorities able to make policy changes or do they simply follow the same path

as the central state authorities prior to decentralization? Drawing on insights from

organisational perspectives, it might be expected that the shift of organisational locus

affects policy change. Based on qualitative data, we explore the Norwegian Reform of

Government Administration, which transferred the bulk of the national road network to

the regional level in 2010. This was a political decentralization reform. The sub-national

authorities continued to rely on the national road agency’s competence. Although

standards, the professional community in the road agency and limited financial resources

hampered the effect of the reform, we find that the regional authorities were able to

influence the focus of the road agency towards a more sustainable and holistic regional

perspective.
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Goeteborgs Universitet. Foervaltningshoegskolan
Journal
Scandinavian journal of public administration

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