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

Tom Christensen



  • Yang Yan, Tom Christensen, Zhusong Yang :
    Personnel Control and Local Officials’ Attention to Economic Development: Evidence from China
    Administration & Society 2024 DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Academic freedom and freedom of speech. Translating travelling ideas
    Uppsala universitet 2024
  • Wang Chengwei, Ma Liang, Tom Christensen :
    Does leadership gender representativeness improve policy outcomes? Evidence from local governments in China
    Public Administration 2024 DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Crisis Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Nordic Way and the Swedish Exceptionalism
    World Scientific 2023 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    The Politics of Vaccines—How to Determine a Fair Vaccine Allocation: Hierarchy, Negotiations, or Culture?
    Administration & Society 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jonas Lund-Tønnesen, Tom Christensen :
    Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications from Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
    Public Organization Review 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Liang Ma, Tom Christensen, Yueping Zheng :
    Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities
    International Review of Administrative Sciences 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Yihuan Wang, Liang Ma, Tom Christensen :
    The hybridization of policy learning in multilevel regimes: a case study of the long-term care insurance in China
    Journal of Asian Public Policy 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ohemeng Frank, Tom Christensen :
    Guest editorial: Rethinking the state of the administrative state: Is the state back in?
    International Journal of Public Sector Management 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tayyeb Ali Khan, Nasira Jabeen, Tom Christensen :
    Rewarding academics: Experiences of the Tenure Track System in Pakistan
    Higher Education Quarterly 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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 ARKIV / DOI
  • Qun Cui, Lisheng Dong, Tom Christensen :
    Strong capacity and high trust: perceptions of crisis management and increased nationalism among Chinese civil servants.
    Routledge 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Taking stock: New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM reforms - trends and challenges
    Edward Elgar Publishing 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Norway: A Pragmatic, Collaborative, and Legitimate Response
    Palgrave Macmillan 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Zhong Kaibing, Liu Yihong, Tom Christensen :
    Crisis coordination in centralized regimes: Explaining china's strategy for combatting the COVID-19 pandemic
    International Public Management Journal 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ziteng Fan, Tom Christensen, Liang Ma :
    Policy attention and the adoption of public sector innovation
    Public Management Review 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tian Xiaolong, Tom Christensen :
    Leading groups: public sector reform with Chinese characteristics in a post-NPM era
    International Public Management Journal 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    The Logic of Appropriateness . A Central Concept of Institutional Theory
    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2021 DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Performance management: Experiences and challenge
    Routledge 2021
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    REPRESENTATIVE AND RESPONSIBLE BUREAUCRACY: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OVER 40 YEARS OF NORWEGIAN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
    Fagbokforlaget 2021
  • Tom Christensen :
    The Social Policy Response to COVID-19 – The Failure to Help Vulnerable Children and Elderly People
    Public Organization Review 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Bo Cheng, Tom Christensen, Liang Ma, Junli Yu :
    Does public money drive out private? Evidence from government regulations of industrial overcapacity governance in urban China.
    International Review of Economics and Finance 2021 DOI
  • Liu Yihong, Tom Christensen :
    The long-term development of crisis management in China—Continuity, institutional punctuations and reforms
    Review of Policy Research 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Liang Ma :
    Comparing SARS and COVID-19: Challenges of Governance Capacity and Legitimacy
    Public Organization Review 2021 DOI
  • Jan Erling Klausen, Jostein Askim, Tom Christensen :
    Local Government Reform: Compromise Through Cross-Cutting Cleavages
    Political Studies Review 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Ma Liang, Tom Christensen, Zheng Yueping :
    Government technological capacity and public–private partnerships regarding digital service delivery: evidence from Chinese cities
    International Review of Administrative Sciences 2021 DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    The Norwegian Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
    2020 DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    The Demise of an Agency Director – A Puzzling Saga of Political Control and Professional Autonomy.
    International Journal of Public Administration 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Inga Margrete Ydersbond, Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit, Tom Christensen, Askill Harkjerr Halse :
    Topp-politikeres bruk av beslutningsgrunnlaget for store statlige investeringer
    2023 FULLTEKST
  • Tom Christensen, Morten Egeberg, Per Lægreid, Jacob Aars :
    Forvaltning og politikk
    Universitetsforlaget 2021
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid, Kjell Arne Røvik :
    Organisasjonsteori for offenlig sektor
    Universitetsforlaget 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
    2022
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Accountability in unsettled situations: deciding on draconic measures to fight COVID-19
    2022
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Assessing the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic - The Scandinavian way
    2022
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    The politics/administration dichotomy – the challenging role of experts during COVID-19
    2022
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    Political Control or Professional Autonomy? A Case of Agency Director Resignation
    Springer Nature 2022 DOI
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    ICT tools in central government: Scope, predictors and effect on coordination quality
    Springer 2021 DOI
  • Per Lægreid, Tom Christensen :
    Crisis Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Nordic Way
    2021
  • Per Lægreid, Tom Christensen :
    The changing politics of vaccines – main principles and challenges of actual allocation
    2021
  • Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid :
    The Norwegian Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
    2020

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