Norwegian School of Economics

Correcting for Nonignorable Nonresponse Bias in Ordinal Observational Survey Data

Abstract Many political surveys rely on post-stratification, raking or related weighting adjustments to align respondents with the target population. But when respondents differ from nonrespondents on the outcome itself (nonignorable nonresponse), these adjustments can fail, intr...

“Trust but not blind trust”: accounting controls and level-specific budget decoupling in a public-sector organization

Purpose This paper aims to examine how a beyond budgeting (BB)-inspired reconfiguration of accounting controls supports trust-based management practices in a public-sector organization operating under annual budget constraints. While BB advocates replacing traditional annual budg...

Civil Servants and Democratic Backsliding: The Role of Managerial Signals

Abstract Political efforts to weaken democratic institutions place civil servants in a dilemma between political responsiveness and protecting democratic values. As civil servants are embedded in the political-administrative hierarchy, we argue that signals from their direct hier...