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THEORIES OF PUBLIC POLICY MAKING AND THF LOCATION OF NORWEGIAN DISTRICT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
Author(s) -
STAVA PER
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1973.tb01229.x
Subject(s) - norwegian , bureaucracy , scope (computer science) , equity (law) , economic justice , political science , public administration , sociology , positive economics , public relations , economics , law , politics , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , programming language
Four theories for explaining public policy decisions are briefly presented. The theories are applied to the question of the location of Norwegian district colleges and universities (location by county, scope and timing). Eleven operational models provide the link between theory and data. The conclusion is that the legal‐bureaucratic theory best explains the location decisions. This structural theory works better than the three behavioral ones. It is argued that this shows how norms of equity and justice constitute the main constraints on these decision processes.