Arild Aurvåg Farsund

• Dr. polit.
• Professor at University of Bergen

Idealet om at politikk skal være kunnskapsbasert står sterkt. Politikken henter kunnskap og forskning fra forskningssystemet, særlig fra instituttsektoren. Denne boka handler om forskningsinstitusjoner og forskningspolitikk, og mest om instituttsektoren. Det er institusjoner utenfor universiteter og høyskoler med forskning og utviklingsarbeid som h...

This study employs complexity theory to elucidate coordination within public policy meta-organizations and explains how changes in the context of a meta-organization affect the complexity of coordination. We offer an analytical framework linking relational and structural attributes of complex systems: self-organisation, multiple systems and interde...

I denne replikken svarer undertegnede på kritikken reist i Lidvard Grønnevets kommentar. Jeg påpeker først og fremst feil og misforståelser i kritikken, men gir Grønnevet rett i at begrepet «kvoter» naturlig nok ikke skulle vært nevnt i forbindelse med medlemskapsforhandlingene i 1972. Jeg roser også Grønnevet for å bringe frem innsikt i spørsmål s...

This article contributes to the Historical Institutionalism literature on stability and change by unpacking how an institution has persisted for more than 70 years despite substantial contextual changes. The overall stability of the institution comes both through changes in policy instruments and their settings, and through the incorporation of dif...

Denne artikkelen retter oppmerksomheten mot utviklingstrekk i landbruks- og fiskeripolitikken i Norge og EU etter iverksettingen av EØS-avtalen i 1994. Det argumenteres for at politikken på begge områder har blitt likere, og dette forklares ut fra at både Norge og EU må forholde seg til de samme internasjonale avtalene, at begge deler mange av de s...

Verdens handelsorganisasjon (WTO) og FNs klimakonvensjon (UNFCCC) representerer to ulike eksempler på organisasjonsutforming i internasjonal politikk. I dette kapitlet videreutvikler vi Ahrne og Brunssons perspektiv på metaorganisasjoner som en bestemt form for besluttet orden. Vi argumenterer for at internasjonale organisasjonene representerer en...

This article analyses how domestic trade policies are adapted to new international framework conditions through strategies of politicization and depoliticization. Empirically, the focus is on how the interests of a globalized seafood industry are assessed in conjunction with the interests of agriculture – an industry traditionally treated as except...

Våren 2012 behandlet Stortinget Stoltenberg II-regjeringens landbruksmelding, og flertallet vedtok å videreføre en politikk der statlige tiltak er avgjørende for utviklingen i naeringen. Vedtaket ble fattet i en periode hvor jordbruket utfordres av WTO-og EØS-avtalene, og det er et tiltagende fokus på for-brukerinteresser fremfor produsentinteresse...

This paper argues that a policy regime based on a paradigm mix may be resilient when challenged by changing power balances and new agendas. Controversies between the actors can be contained within the paradigm mix as it enables them to legitimize different ideational positions. Rather than engaging in conflict over the foundation of the regime, the...

Food security has emerged as a relatively new policy issue in agricultural policy making in developed countries. This policy problem is addressed within an institutional landscape in which agricultural ideas and institutions are well-established. In this article, food security policy making in Australia and Norway is compared. In Australia, agricul...

A contested issue in the international debate on food security is the role of trade in safeguarding food security at the global and national level. This paper explores how the issue of food security and trade has been discursively framed in two international organizations, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the General Agreement on Tra...

This chapter analyzes Norwegian trade policy making, with emphasis on the relations between the interests of agriculture and seafood industries. Empirically, it covers WTO, EFTA free trade agreements, and the EEA agreement with the EU.

This article examines a recently implemented regional reform in Norway and some ongoing regionalization processes in two of the largest city-regions. The point of departure is the assumption that the framing of the regionalization process influences its outcome, and the principal question is to what degree they were aggregative or integrative decis...

In this chapter we adress perspectives on governance and relate it to governance in city-regions by asking: what is governance, what is beeing governed and who governs?

This article focuses on political and everyday interplay and integration between city and hinterland, investigating borders and boundaries in such interplay. Five Norwegian city-regions served as the empirical basis for analysing two empirical fields. In the first field — everyday mobility and flow — institutionalized interactions between the citie...