The Administration Survey (Ministry and Directorate) 2016

In 2016, an electronic questionnaire was sent out to case officers and managers with at least one year's service in the ministry and directorate and other central administration on features of working methods, personnel and decision processes. The study is a continuation of similar surveys in 1976, 1986, 1996 and 2006. Principal investigators are Professor Per Lægreid, University of Bergen and Rokkan Centre, Professors Tom Christensen and Morten Egeberg, University of Oslo, and Professor Jarle Trondal, University of Agder. All the researchers have been central as project staff and principal investigators in the previous central administration surveys.

About the Central Administration Surveys 2016
The survey represents a follow-up of four previous surveys that cover the entire Norwegian central administration. The survey started with "Maktutredningens departementsstudie i 1976" with Professor Johan P. Olsen as principal investigator. Ten years later, a closely related survey was conducted under the auspices of the Research Council's focus area "management, organization and management system" (LOS). In 1996 and 2006, the third and fourth equivalent survey was carried out, then under the auspices of ARENA, the University of Oslo, in collaboration with the Department of Political Science, the University of Oslo and the University of Bergen. Since the last survey, a new decade has passed and one wanted to follow up many of the same topics again. The survey in 2016 was carried out and financed by the University of Oslo in collaboration with the University of Agder and the University of Bergen. The technical execution was handled by NSD - the Norwegian Center for Research Data, which also safeguards privacy concerns in the data collection. The result of the surveys is that one gets - in an international context - unique insight into development features with regard to the administration's working methods, staff composition and value alignment over a 40-year period. One goal is that the survey will contribute significantly to the administration's self-understanding, society's understanding of it, and thus to the work of maintaining and creating good governance.

In addition to questions about time use, work routines and decision-making processes, the questionnaire also contains some questions that have been specifically prepared for the government-appointed law committee that will go through the Public Administration Act, led by Professor Inge Lorange Backer, appointed by Royal Decree 23.11 2015.

2016年，研究团队向挪威中央部委、局级单位及其他中央行政部门任职满一年的案件专员与管理人员发放了电子问卷，调研内容涵盖工作方法、人员配置与决策流程等维度。本研究是1976年、1986年、1996年及2006年同类调研的延续。本项目的首席研究员包括卑尔根大学与罗坎研究中心（Rokkan Centre）的佩尔·勒格雷德（Per Lægreid）教授，奥斯陆大学的汤姆·克里斯滕森（Tom Christensen）教授、莫滕·埃格伯格（Morten Egeberg）教授，以及阿格德大学的约尔勒·特龙达尔（Jarle Trondal）教授。所有研究员均曾作为核心项目成员与首席研究员参与过此前的中央行政部门调研。

2016年中央行政部门调研概况
本次调研是覆盖挪威全境中央行政部门的四次既往调研的追踪延续。首次调研为1976年开展的『Maktutredningens departementsstudie i 1976』，首席研究员为约翰·P·奥尔森（Johan P. Olsen）教授。十年后，依托挪威研究理事会‘管理、组织与治理系统’（LOS）重点研究领域，开展了一项密切相关的调研。1996年与2006年，第三、第四次同类调研先后开展，由奥斯陆大学阿雷纳研究中心（ARENA）主办，联合奥斯陆大学政治科学系与卑尔根大学共同完成。自上一次调研至今已过去十年，研究团队希望再次对诸多相同主题进行追踪调研。2016年的调研由奥斯陆大学联合阿格德大学与卑尔根大学开展并资助，技术执行工作由挪威研究数据中心（NSD - Norwegian Center for Research Data）负责，该中心同时承担调研数据收集中的隐私保护职责。本次调研的成果使得学界能够在国际视野下，深入洞察40年跨度内挪威中央行政部门在工作方法、人员构成与价值共识方面的发展特征。本次调研的目标之一，是助力行政部门深化自我认知，增进社会对行政部门的了解，进而为维护并构建优良治理体系贡献力量。

除涵盖时间使用、工作常规与决策流程相关问题外，本次问卷还包含专门为政府指定法律委员会设计的问题——该委员会将审议由英厄·洛朗格·巴克（Inge Lorange Backer）教授牵头修订的《公共行政法》，英厄·洛朗格·巴克教授系2015年11月23日皇家法令任命。