Geografisk konflikt i det politiske landskapet: En fortelling om to dimensjoner

Eidheim, Marta Rekdal; Fimreite, Anne Lise

doi:10.18261/issn.1504-2936-2020-02-02

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“…Betydningen av de geografiske skillelinjene for å forklare holdninger og vedtak har variert over tid (Berglund, 2011;Knudsen, 2019). Etter at Erna Solbergs Høyre-Fremskrittsparti-regjering tiltrådte i 2013 viste imidlertid spørsmål og saker med geografisk tilsnitt seg å ha stor innvirkning i det norske politiske landskapet (Eidheim & Fimreite, 2020;Stein, 2019;Jenssen, 2020). Senterpartiets vekst i oppslutning i perioden fra 2013 til 2021 og økt folkelig motstand mot regjeringens mange reforminitiativ, reformer og politiske enkeltvedtak med (oppfattet) territoriell betydning, trekkes fram som sentrale uttrykk for det som blir omtalt som «geografiens tilbakekomst i norsk politikk» (Almås et.al., 2020;Eidheim & Fimreite, 2020;Jenssen, 2020;Knudsen, 2019;Stein et al, 2021a).…”

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“…Det finnes også en velkommunisert opplevelse mange steder av å ikke bli satset på når omstillings-og nedleggelsesspøkelse melder seg, og av at det innovative og fremtidsrettede skjer «andre steder» (Knudsen, 2019;Stein, 2019;Jenssen, 2020). I denne konteksten ble Solbergs-regjeringens kommune-og regionreform, naerpolitireformen, domstolsreformen og strukturreformen innenfor høyere utdanning realiteter ila få år (Eidheim & Fimreite 2020;Jenssen 2020;Skiple et al 2022). I Nord-Norge opplevde man i tillegg store omstillinger innen forsvaret (Stein 2019).…”

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Geografisk bevissthet hos velgere, lokalpolitikere og forvaltningsansatte

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Eidheim³

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Geografiske skillelinjer ble igjen sentrale for norske velgere under Solberg-regjeringen. Slike politiske spenninger kan komme til uttrykk gjennom det vi kaller en geografisk bevissthet -et syn på geografisk fordeling av makt og ressurser, og verdien av å bo et sted. Ved å analysere unike surveydata, viser vi at velgerne og (lokal-) politikerne mer enn forvaltningsansatte har en rural geografisk bevissthet som inkluderer en oppfatning av maktasymmetri mellom sentrum og periferi, ønske om mer ressurser til distriktene i form av flere og mindre offentlige tjenestesteder og verdsettelse av at barn vokser opp i mer landlige omgivelser. Resultatene viser at det å bo mer sentralt og ha høyere utdanning reduserer sannsynligheten for å ha en rural geografisk bevissthet noe som forklarer en del av forskjellen vi ser mellom forvaltningsansatte og de to andre gruppene. Forvaltningsansattes lojalitet til regjeringen, sosialisering til rollen og endringer i kontaktmønsteret mellom forvaltningsnivåene kan vaere med å forklare den avstanden vi observerer. Med utgangspunkt i våre teoretiske diskusjoner og empiriske funn presenteres forslag til videre forskning på feltet.

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“…To make the reform more successful, the initial reform coalition at the central level needed to be more persistent throughout the process. The local support for the reforms was fragile, and the NLGR could easily have been affected much more by the growing political discontent with the government's alleged "centralism" after 2014 Eidheim and Fimreite, 2020).…”

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“…This not only had to do with the parliamentary situation after 2013, and the Government's need for legitimacy and a broad political settlement (e.g., to minimize local party-based resistance towards the reform), but also with a combination of basic structural and historical premises. In a Scandinavian comparison, Norway sticks out with its politically potent periphery Eidheim and Fimreite, 2020), and its tradition for a de facto local power to "decide on municipal boundaries", dating back to the 19th Century. The reputation -after the only large municipal amalgamation reform in Norwegian history, during the first half of the 1960s -was that this was a "forced reform", in the sense that it violated the very principle of local self-government.…”

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Organising and Governing Governmental Institutions

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Torjesen³

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This volume examines three interconnected themes in political science: the nuts and bolts of government, the complex and evolving relationship between politics and administration, and continuity and change in government. Government ministries and agencies are vital components of the executive branch of government that play fundamental roles in the democratic governing of modern societies. Contemporary public administration is conventionally portrayed as being based on a series of dichotomies: politics versus administration, coordination versus fragmentation, integration versus disintegration, trust versus distrust, etc. As an alternative, this volume, which is composed of a series of case studies from the Nordics and beyond, conceptualises and empirically demonstrates how government bodies at different levels of governance are driven by pragmatism characterised by the co-existence of multiple decision-making premises. To account for the composite aspect of government, this volume illustrates how institutional and organisational factors can structure elements in the policymaking process and how these elements are powerful tools available to purposeful design.

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“…In this context, the periphery refers to northern Norway. For example, political scientists Marta Rekdal Eidheim and Anne Lise Fimreite wrote an article titled 'Geographical conflict in the political landscape,' 20 where they argue that geography still influences Norwegian voting behaviour, 21 and thus indirectly influences policy-making. I agree with Eidheim and Fimreite, and suggest further that municipal and county council representatives, as well as representatives from commercial interests in northern Norway, also influence policy-making by directly lobbying government ministers.…”

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Why Active State Measures Have Dominated Regional Policies in Norway by Governments of all Colours: A Historical Review and Comparison with Sweden

Tufte

2023

Arctic Review

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This article compares regional policies in Norway to regional policies in Sweden. The article suggests that geographical and geopolitical factors are the main factors that have influenced regional policies. The article points out that the government in Sweden, immediately following WW2, also assumed the role of the active state. However, in contrast to Norway, its policies were disadvantageous to northern Sweden. Later, Swedish governments also implemented policies aimed at strengthening the economic and social conditions in the north. The article demonstrates that even bourgeois governments, who are traditionally ‘less-state-more-market’ oriented than social democratic governments, have used active state measures in their regional policies in Norway. The article points out that geographical and geopolitical factors represent interests that are shared by Norway’s centre and periphery and argues that these factors work as political guidelines that fundamentally influence the continuous use of active state policies by bourgeois governments. It concludes that this influence is stronger than bourgeois governments’ ideological foundations, Keynesian economics and the bureaucracy. Northern Sweden, in comparison, lacks the geographical and geopolitical factors of northern Norway, which explains why fewer active state measures have been used by governments in Sweden than in Norway.

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Geografisk konflikt i det politiske landskapet: En fortelling om to dimensjoner

Abstract: Vitenskapelig publikasjon Geografisk konflikt i det politiske landskapet: En fortelling om to dimensjoner Geographical conflict in the political landscape. A tale of two dimensions.

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Geografisk bevissthet hos velgere, lokalpolitikere og forvaltningsansatte

Geografisk bevissthet hos velgere, lokalpolitikere og forvaltningsansatte

Organising and Governing Governmental Institutions

Why Active State Measures Have Dominated Regional Policies in Norway by Governments of all Colours: A Historical Review and Comparison with Sweden

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