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Are Vegard Haug

Are Vegard Haug

Job title
  • Senior Researcher
Visiting address
  • Stensberggata 26, 0170 Oslo
  • Office number: X253
Phone
  • Mobile: +47 464 10 537
  • Office: +47 672 36 406
E-mail
  • are.haug@oslomet.no
Affiliation

About

Are Vegard Haug is a political scientist (PhD) and former Research Director at NOVA and Associate Professor at Department of Law and Governance, BI. He was previously head of the Department of Political Science and management at the University of Agder. His research interests are local government and regional development, welfare states, political economy, innovation, organization and management, democracy and law. Recent research projects include organizational models and management in Public Sector, governance, welfare models, media, culture, Nordic regional development, organization and management of ICT-inspired innovations, privacy and security. Haug also has extensive teaching and lecturing experience.

Field of study

Democracy   Political Economy   Multicultural societies   Local administration and policy   Minicipality   Information and communication technology   Nordic welfare states

Administrative field of work

Project management   Staffing   Management development   Equal opportunity   Employee participation   Reorganisation   Organisational development   Staff policy   Recruitment   Welfare

Research groups

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

Completed research projects

Publications and research

Scientific publications

Sefton, Therese ; Haug, Are Vegard (2025). The Price of Safety: Assessing the Acceptance of COVID-19 Measures in Nordic Countries. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration (SPJA).
https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.34399

Baldersheim, Harald; Haug, Are Vegard ; Hye, Linda; Øgård, Morten (2024). Norway: decentralised crisis management. Haug, Are Vegard (Ed.). Crisis Management, Governance and COVID-19 : Pandemic Policy and Local Government in the Nordic Countries. p. 86-96. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336531.00019

Haug, Are Vegard (2024). Crisis Management, Governance and COVID-19 : Pandemic Policy and Local Government in the Nordic Countries. ISBN: 9781035336524. 272 p. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336531

Haug, Are Vegard ; Baldersheim, Harald; Sefton, Therese (2024). How (un)reasonable were the pandemic measures according to citizens?. Haug, Are Vegard (Ed.). Crisis Management, Governance and COVID-19 : Pandemic Policy and Local Government in the Nordic Countries. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336531

Haug, Are Vegard (2022). Collaborative Management in Norwegian Municipalities: Do Middle Managers Make a Difference?. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration (SPJA). Vol. 26.
https://doi.org/10.58235/sjpa.v26i2.7024

Baldersheim, Harald; Øgård, Morten; Haug, Are Vegard ; Hye, Linda (2021). Den kommunale mellomlederen - selvstendig lagspiller. ISBN: 9788245035612. 249 p. Fagbokforlaget.

Haug, Are Vegard (2018). Innovation and network leadership: The bureaucracy strikes back?. Information Polity. Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-170052

Haug, Are Vegard ; Salte, Hilde (2016). Medias dekning av tilreisende romfolk i Norge: En kamp om sannhet?. Alm, Kristian; Brown, Richard Mark; Røyseng, Sigrid (Ed.). p. 329-360. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.

Haug, Are Vegard ; Jenssen, Julie Bodd (2016). Kommune-Norge AS: Skilsmissen, oppgjøret og nye ekteskap. Anderssen, Harald B; Bråthen, Tore (Ed.). Moderne Forretningsjus III. p. 229-242. Fagbokforlaget.

Haug, Are Vegard (2014). Innovasjonsteori og framveksten av digital forvaltning – hvorfor noen kommuner går foran og andre kommer etter. Baldersheim, Harald; Rose, Lawrence E (Ed.). Det kommunale laboratorium: Teoretiske perspektiver på lokal politikk og organisering, 3. utgave. p. 153-175. Fagbokforlaget.



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Textbooks

Haug, Are Vegard (2007). Mot den virtuelle kommunen. Studier i e-demokrati og e-forvaltning. ISBN: 9788245007244. 279 p. Fagbokforlaget.

Baldersheim, Harald; Haug, Are Vegard ; Øgård, Morten (2007). Mot den virtuelle kommunen. Studier i e-demokrati og e-forvaltning. ISBN: 9788245007244. 280 p. Fagbokforlaget.

Haug, Are Vegard (2006). Rettslige reguleringer av Informasjonssikkerhet. ISBN: 9788272260964. 278 p. Unipub forlag.



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Research reports

Vedeler, Janikke Solstad ; Evensen, Miriam; Ugreninov, Elisabeth ; Haug, Are Vegard (2018). Arbeidsgiveres inkluderingspraksiser Hva kjennetegner arbeidsgivere som ønsker å rekruttere unge med psykiske helseproblemer og «hull i CV-en»?. ISBN: 9788278946480. 55 p. NOVA, OsloMet.
http://www.hioa.no/content/download/148804/4143207

Engebrigtsen, Ada I.; Haug, Are Vegard (2018). Evaluering av tilskuddsordningen for humanitære tiltak til tilreisende EØS-borgere som tigger. ISBN: 9788278946558. 57 p. NOVA, OsloMet.
http://www.hioa.no/content/download/145836/4099082

Haug, Are Vegard (2009). Lokaldemokratiet på nett og i nett. 265 p. Unipub forlag.

Haug, Are Vegard ; Øgård, Morten; Baldersheim, Harald (2009). The rise of the networking region: The challenges of regional collaboration in a globalized world. 250 p. Nordisk ministerråd.

Haug, Are Vegard (2006). Elektronisk stemmegivning ? Utfordringer og muligheter (Offentlig utredning ledet av Bernt Aardal). 200 p. Kommunal- og regionaldepartementet.

Haug, Are Vegard (2006). Schartum, Dag Wiese; Eriksen, Amund; Haug, Are Vegard; Hagevik, Margrethe. Regelverk og informasjonssikkerhet, forprosjektrapport til KIS: http://www.kunnskapsnettverk.no 2005. 66 s. 66 p. Forprosjektrapport til Koordineringsutvalg for informasjonssikkerhet (KIS): http://www.kunnskapsnettverk.no 2005. 66 s..

Schartum, Dag Wiese; Eriksen, Amund; Haug, Are Vegard ; Hagevik, Margrethe (2005). Regelverk og informasjonssikkerhet, forprosjektrapport til KIS. 66 p. http://www.kunnskapsnettverk.no.
http://www.kunnskapsnettverk.no/sites/kisarbeidsro

Haug, Are Vegard (2004). Innsyn for ungdom med IKT - Erfaringer med et pedagogisk opplegg omkring personvern og IKT for ungdomsskolen. Universitetet i Oslo.

Haug, Are Vegard (2004). INNSYN FOR UNGDOM MED IKT - Erfaringer med et pedagogisk opplegg omkring personvern og IKT for ungdomsskolen. 95 p. Universitetet i Oslo.

Haug, Are Vegard (2002). e-Demokrati. 20 p. Universitetet i Oslo.



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Dissemination

Haug, Are Vegard (2025). Hvordan opplevde innbyggerne lokaldemokratiet og lokal krisehåndtering?. Pandemien i de nordiske landene: Overlevde den nordiske modellen?. OsloMet.

Haug, Are Vegard (2025). Veikart digitale innbyggertjenester Hvordan jobbe sammen i nettverk?. Digi Agder og Kristiansand kommune . Digi Agder og Kristiansand kommune .

Haug, Are Vegard (2025). Innledning: sluttkonferansen for POLYGOV-prosjektet. Pandemien i de nordiske landene: Overlevde den nordiske modellen?. OsloMet.

Sefton, Therese ; Haug, Are Vegard (2024). Nordic citizens' perception on pandemic regulations: Principles or pragmatism?. NoPSA 2024 XX Nordic Political Science Congress. The Nordic Political Science Association (NoPSA).

Baldersheim, Harald; Haug, Are Vegard (2024). COVID pandemic and the Nordic model of local governance - high stakes, high risks. Haug, Are Vegard (Ed.). Crisis Management, Governance and COVID-19 : Pandemic Policy and Local Government in the Nordic Countries. p. 3-16. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336531

Baldersheim, Harald; Haug, Are Vegard (2024). Multi-level governance - a helping hand from the state, or centralisation of crisis responses?. Haug, Are Vegard (Ed.). Crisis Management, Governance and COVID-19 : Pandemic Policy and Local Government in the Nordic Countries. p. 153-163. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336531

Haug, Are Vegard (2024). The covid-19 pandemic. OASV4700 Perspectives on Crisis, Change and Reform in Public Sector (Master Program). Handelshøyskolen, OsloMet.

Haug, Are Vegard (2024). Den kommunale mellomlederen– selvstendig lagspiller. Lederforum. Bodø kommune.

Haug, Are Vegard ; Baldersheim, Harald (2024). Conclusions and implications. Haug, Are Vegard (Ed.). Crisis Management, Governance and COVID-19 : Pandemic Policy and Local Government in the Nordic Countries. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336531

Baldersheim, Harald; Haug, Are Vegard ; Eythorsson, Gretar Thor (2024). Citizen trust in local government in the Nordic Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Haug, Are Vegard (Ed.). Crisis Management, Governance and COVID-19 : Pandemic Policy and Local Government in the Nordic Countries. Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035336531



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