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Department of Social Sciences tom.christensen@uit.no Tromsø

Tom Christensen



  • Suzan M.A. AlQurashi, Afnan M. Alshehri, Tom Christensen :
    Examining the Effects of the New Public Service Model (NPS) and New Public Management Model (NPM) on Organizational Efficiency in the Saudi Ground Services Company
    Public Organization Review 01. January 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Rui Mu, Sicheng Chen, Tom Christensen :
    Reputation signals, individual characteristics and citizens’ coproduction willingness
    Public Management Review 01. January 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Shuai Qin, Tom Christensen :
    Reforming a Public Personnel System – A Bounded Rational Layering Development in China, 1979–2019
    Public Organization Review 01. December 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    The agency model and autonomy
    04. November 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Future Challenges of Public Administration
    Public Performance and Management Review 05. September 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Cabinet Turbulence and Political Scandals— Accountability Under Pressure
    Scandinavian Political Studies 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Meng Quingguo, Cheng Xiaoyang, Chen Sicheng, Tom Christensen :
    Reputation management and communication under political control: The case of China’s central bank
    International Public Management Journal 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tian Xiaolong, Liang Ma, Tom Christensen :
    Why did China persist with a zero-COVID policy? A cultural interpretation of Confucianism
    Public Policy and Administration 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Ma Liang, Bin Chen, Tom Christensen, Weixing Liu :
    The evolution of mandated coordination in policy implementation: Evidence from China's central government agencies
    Review of Policy Research 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Reversing Government Reforms: Radical Change or Adaptive Adjustments?
    Public Administration 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Xiong Wei, Wang Feng, Tom Christensen, Casady Carter :
    Bureaucratic redundancy and administrative burden: Evidence from private-public partnerships (PPPs) in China.
    Public Administration 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Future Directions of Public Administration Research—Addressing Fundamental Issues and Questions
    International Journal of Public Administration 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Liang Ma, Weixing Liu, Sicheng Chen, Tom Christensen :
    Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination
    Public Administration 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Liang Ma, Weixing Liu, Sicheng Chen, Tom Christensen :
    Where you are matters: Network position, designed network, and central government agency termination.
    Public Administration 2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Reputation management in turmoil—An analysis of the clashing narratives in the introduction of a “salmon tax” in Norway
    Review of Policy Research 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Wang Chengwei, Ma Liang, Tom Christensen :
    Does leadership gender representativeness improve policy outcomes? Evidence from local governments in China
    Public Administration 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Wei Xiong, Fang Wang, Tom Christensen, Carter B. Casady :
    Bureaucratic redundancy and administrative burden: Evidence from public-private partnerships (PPPs) in China
    Public Administration 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen :
    Tjenestedesign i offentlig forvaltning - perspektiver og utfordringer
    2024 ARKIV
  • Yang Yan, Tom Christensen, Zhusong Yang :
    Personnel Control and Local Officials’ Attention to Economic Development: Evidence from China
    Administration & Society 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Academic freedom and freedom of speech. Translating travelling ideas
    2024 ARKIV
  • Sicheng Chen, Tom Christensen, Liang Ma :
    Written directives and ministerial tenure in China: a novel gauge for political performance?
    Journal of Asian Public Policy (JAPP) 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Complexity in Public Policy
    2024 DOI / ARKIV
  • Xiaolong Tian, Tom Christensen :
    Traditional bureaucracy and newly-revived leading groups: The Chinese government’s organizational responses to COVID-19
    International Public Management Journal 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Qun Cui, Lisheng Dong, Tom Christensen :
    How to encourage more public participation in marine disaster risk management: Evidence from a survey experiment in China
    Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development 2024 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Crisis Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Nordic Way and the Swedish Exceptionalism
    2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?
    Administration & Society 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Golan-Nadir Niva, Tom Christensen :
    Collective action and co-production of public services as alternative politics: The case of public transportation in Israel
    Australian Journal of Public Administration 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Jonas Lund-Tønnesen, Tom Christensen :
    Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications from Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
    Public Organization Review 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tao Peng, Tom Christensen, Liu Yihong, Chun Chun :
    Power Structure, Issue Priorities and Attention Dynamics of Leaders from 2001 to 2017 in China
    Public Organization Review 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic: a study of inquiry commission reports in Norway and Sweden
    Policy and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Policy Research 2023 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Mads Dagnis Jensen, Michael Kluth, Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, Kennet Lynggaard, Per Lægreid et al.:
    The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments
    Regulation & Governance 02. October 2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Jostein Askim, Tom Christensen :
    Crisis decision-making inside the core executive: Rationality, bureaucratic politics, standard procedures and the COVID-19 lockdown
    Public Policy and Administration 2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Scientization under pressure—The problematic role of expert bodies during the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic
    Public Organization Review 21. April 2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Jonas Lund-Tønnesen, Tom Christensen :
    The dynamics of governance capacity and legitimacy: the case of a digital tracing technology during the COVID-19 pandemic
    International Public Management Journal 2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Special Issue on The Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Public Organization Review 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Tayyeb Ali Khan, Nasira Jabeen, Tom Christensen :
    Rewarding academics: Experiences of the Tenure Track System in Pakistan
    Higher Education Quarterly 2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Sicheng Chen, Tom Christensen, Man Liang :
    Reputation Management and Administrative Reorganization: How Different Media Reputation Dimensions Matter for Agency Termination
    Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (JPART) 2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Norway: A Pragmatic, Collaborative, and Legitimate Response
    2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Qun Cui, Lisheng Dong, Tom Christensen :
    Strong capacity and high trust: perceptions of crisis management and increased nationalism among Chinese civil servants.
    2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Tian Xiaolong, Tom Christensen :
    Leading groups: public sector reform with Chinese characteristics in a post-NPM era
    International Public Management Journal 2022 DOI / ARKIV / ARKIV
  • Inga Margrete Ydersbond, Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit, Tom Christensen, Askill Harkjerr Halse :
    Topp-politikeres bruk av beslutningsgrunnlaget for store statlige investeringer
    Ex ante akademisk forlag 2023 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Inga Margrete Ydersbond, Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit, Tom Christensen, Askill Harkjerr Halse :
    Topp-politikernes bruk av beslutningsgrunnlaget for store, statlige investeringer
    26. November 2025 ARKIV
  • Inga Margrete Ydersbond, Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit, Askill Harkjerr Halse, Tom Christensen :
    Topp-politikeres bruk av beslutningsgrunnlaget i store, statlige investeringsprosesser
    2024 ARKIV
  • Inga Margrete Ydersbond, Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit, Askill Harkjerr Halse, Tom Christensen :
    Top politicians’ use of decision-making premises in major public projects.
    2024 ARKIV
  • Inga Margrete Ydersbond, Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit, Askill Harkjerr Halse, Tom Christensen :
    Top politicians’ use of decision-making premises in major public projects - presentasjon for Transportudvalget i det danske Folketinget
    2024 ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen :
    Reversing government reforms: radical change or agile and adaptive adjustments?
    2024 ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen :
    Cabinet turbulence – accountability and appropriateness under stress
    2024 ARKIV
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Author Correction: Special Issue on The Scientization of Public Decision-Making Processes – the Relevance for the Handling of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Public Organization Review, (2022), 22, 2, (215-221), 10.1007/s11115-022-00632-x)
    Public Organization Review 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Gary Schwarz, Tom Christensen, Xufeng Zhu :
    Bounded Rationality, Satisficing, Artificial Intelligence, and Decision-Making in Public Organizations: The Contributions of Herbert Simon
    Public Administration Review 2022 DOI / ARKIV
  • Martine J van den Heuvel-Greve, Lis Lindal Jørgensen, Sei-Ichi Seito, Mario Aquarone, Paul Arthur Berkman, Bodil Bluhm et al.:
    ICES/PICES/PAME WORKING GROUP ON INTEGRATED ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT (IEA) FOR THE CENTRAL ARCTIC OCEAN (WGICA; outcomes from 2021 meeting)
    International Council for the Exploration of the Seas 2022 ARKIV

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