Courses Taught
Background
- Director of the Institute for Social Research 1986-2007
- Member of the research group for the Power and Democracy Study 1998-2003
- Member of the Executive Committee for The Oslo Summer School in Comparative Studies 1992-
- Member of the Norwegian Parliament’s salaries commission 1996-
- Visiting Wigeland Professor, University of Chicago, fall 1996
- Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, fall 2006.
Tags:
Sociology
Publications
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Trygstad, Sissel Charlotte; Ødegård, Anne Mette & Engelstad, Fredrik
(2026).
Do Institutional Arrangements Matter for a More Friendly Whistleblowing Environment?
In Lewis, David; Trygstad, Sissel C. & Vandekerckhove, Wim (Ed.),
Whistleblowing and Freedom of Expression in Working Life.
Emerald Publishing Limited.
ISSN 9781806868858.
p. 49–74.
doi:
10.1108/s0195-631020260000038004.
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Abstract This chapter investigates how employers and managers protect whistleblowers and assess the impact of whistleblowing on their organisations, drawing on survey data from Denmark, England, Ireland and Norway. All four countries included in this study have legislation protecting whistleblowers. Norway and Denmark belong to so-called inclusive employment regimes, while England and Ireland have more market-based employment regimes. Factors that may contribute to fostering a more whistleblower-friendly environment are identified, and the authors examine how institutional arrangements and employment regimes shape these dynamics. The findings suggest that institutional arrangements and employment regimes play a certain role in promoting environments conducive to whistleblowing, but the findings are not conclusive. However, neither collective agreements nor whistleblowing procedures do affect managerial attitudes towards whistleblowing. This suggests that other factors, beyond institutional frameworks, such as personal experiences and interests, organisational culture or sector-specific dynamics, influence how managers perceive and respond to whistleblowing.1
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Engelstad, Fredrik & Trygstad, Sissel Charlotte
(2024).
Whistleblowing – an extension of working life democracy? The case of Norway.
Economic and Industrial Democracy: an international journal.
ISSN 0143-831X.
doi:
10.1177/0143831X241265901.
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Working life relations are in a continuous state of change. So are the institutions of working life democracy. In Norway, three well-established components of working life democracy have been in place since the 1960s and 1970s, developing along different institutional tracks: collective bargaining at the national level, employee representation on the boards, and employee participation in protection of health and safety in the work environment. From 2007, legal protection of whistleblowing was included in the Working Environment Act (WEA), anchored in specific institutional arrangements. Before the turn of the century, a common assumption was that whistleblowing mainly targets irregular, even criminal, dispositions of the enterprise. After the inclusion in the WEA, data from Norway from the years 2016 to 2022 demonstrate that to a large extent, psycho-social problems have become the object of whistleblowing. However, institutional specificities limit the handling of social interaction problems by the traditional work environment arrangements. Against the background of its separate institutions for the handling of grievances, it is argued that whistleblowing, along with freedom of expression, are parts of a fourth track of democratization. Even though the institutional setup of whistleblowing has been revised twice since 2007, the findings indicate that additional revisions are still desirable.
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Engelstad, Fredrik & Larsen, Håkon
(2019).
Nordic civil spheres and pro-civil states.
In Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Lund, Anna & Voyer, Andrea (Ed.),
The Nordic Civil Sphere.
Polity Press.
ISSN 9781509538843.
p. 39–63.
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The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state. Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity – the feeling of being connected with every other person in the collectivity. The utopian ideals of democratic solidarity shape every modern society, even if they are often compromised by the messy realities of social life.
This volume uses the theory of the civil sphere to shed new light on Nordic societies, while at the same time drawing on the distinctive experiences of the Nordic nations to reflect on and advance the theory of the civil sphere. Nordic societies have long been admired for creating a distinctive form of social democracy, but this admirable achievement has not been well conceptualized theoretically. Most attempts to explain Nordic social democracy focus on material and organizational factors. This volume, by contrast, emphasizes the cultural foundations and characteristics of social democracy, demonstrating how civil sensibilities are necessary for the creation of an egalitarian and democratic state. Nordic civil spheres, however, are not only pro-civil but also white in color, European in ethnicity, secular in character and gender-equal in a subtly restrictive manner. Such primordialization of state civility is vividly on display in the sometime tense relationships that develop among natives and “foreigners” in Nordic countries, relationships that expose the primordial undersides of the social democratic codes and civil values that constitute the Nordic civil sphere.
A major contribution to the theory of the civil sphere and to our understanding of the cultural and normative underpinnings of social and political life, this volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars of sociology and politics.
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Mangset, Marte; Engelstad, Fredrik; Teigen, Mari & Gulbrandsen, Trygve Jens
(2019).
The Populist Elite Paradox: Using Elite Theory to Elucidate the Shapes and Stakes of Populist Elite Critiques.
In Engelstad, Fredrik; Gulbrandsen, Trygve Jens; Mangset, Marte & Teigen, Mari (Ed.),
Elites and people: Challenges to democracy.
Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
ISSN 9781838679163.
p. 203–222.
doi:
10.1108/s0195-631020190000034010.
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Critiques of elites define populism, which conceives of power relations as a unified, conspiring elite exploiting the good people. Yet, populism itself is inherently elitist, calling for a strong leader to take power and channel the will of the people. Elite theory, surprisingly overlooked in scholarship on populism, can clarify this apparent paradox and elucidate the dimensions of populism and its risk of authoritarianism in new ways. In contrast to populist ideological conceptions of power relations in society, elite theory points to the possibility that several elites with diverging voices and interests exist. Furthermore, elite theorists argue that such elite pluralism is a necessary component of a well-functioning democracy. Much scholarship on populism, often aiming to understand its causes and focussing on Western Europe and North America, points to the similarities of populist movements. The focus on similarities strengthens the understanding of populism as a uniform phenomenon and populist elite critiques as homogeneous. However, broader comparative studies show that different populist movements target a range of various elite groups. Indeed, the empirical reality of populist elite critiques targeting diverse elite groups is more in line with elite theory than populist ideological conceptions of power relations in society. A key to grasping the democratic challenges posed by the power relations between elites and masses in both populist critiques and populist solutions is an understanding of the institutional conditions for elite integration versus elite pluralism. This central discussion in both classical and modern elite theory is applied to analyse populism in this contribution.
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Engelstad, Fredrik; Holst, Cathrine & Aakvaag, Gunnar C.
(2018).
Introduction: Democracy, Institutional Compatibility and Change.
In Engelstad, Fredrik; Holst, Cathrine & Aakvaag, Gunnar C. (Ed.),
Democratic State and Democratic Society.
De Gruyter Open.
ISSN 9783110634075.
p. 1–21.
doi:
10.1515/9783110634082-002.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2018).
Models of elite integration.
In Best, Heinrich & Higley, John (Ed.),
The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites.
Palgrave Macmillan.
ISSN 9781137519030.
p. 439–457.
doi:
10.1057/978-1-137-51904-7_28.
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In this chapter, elites are associated with the possession of decisive political power that gives them disproportionate influence on political and social outcomes. Two opposing views of elite power in democracies are found in the literature. One is of a coalescent power structure or “power elite” and the other is of a pluralistic power structure consisting of elite groups located in diverse economic, governmental, military, media, scientific, and other sectors. The accuracy of these two conflicting views of elite power is treated as an empirical question and takes the pluralist view as the point of departure without, however, ruling out the coalescent view.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2018).
CHEF/Chief.
In Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan (Ed.),
Living Together – Roland Barthes, the Individual and the Community.
Transcript Verlag.
ISSN 9783837644319.
p. 125–134.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2017).
A power elite in the cultural field. A story of Norwegian neo-corporatism.
International Journal of Cultural Policy.
ISSN 1028-6632.
23(5),
p. 527–544.
doi:
10.1080/10286632.2015.1084297.
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The organizational culture elite is studied as a new elite group emerging within a stable neo-corporatist state. Does this new elite adopt existing modes of operation or place itself at bay from the more established elite groups? The emergence of and changes in the culture elite are discussed from a historical perspective in terms of social background, recruitment processes, occupational careers, gender composition, political outlooks, lobbying, and media strategies. The culture elite is systematically compared to two other elites: the university elite, the most similar among the elites, and the economic elite, assumedly representing the greatest contrast. Despite special characteristics in the social situations and political views of the culture elite, it is concluded that the mode of operation of this group indicates a high degree of adaptability to the general system of elites. A main reason is assumed to be the integrative power and liberal quality of the state in a neo-corporatist regime.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2017).
Strategic Communication and Institutional Change.
In Engelstad, Fredrik; Larsen, Håkon; Rogstad, Jon & Steen-Johnsen, Kari (Ed.),
Institutional Change in the Public Sphere: Views on the Nordic Model.
De Gruyter Open.
ISSN 9783110546330.
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The main focus of the book is institutional change in the Scandinavian model, with special emphasis on Norway. There are many reasons to pay closer attention to the Norwegian case when it comes to analyses of changes in the public sphere. In the country’s political history, the arts and the media played a particular role in the processes towards sovereignty at the beginning of the 20th century. On a par with the other Scandinavian countries, Norway is in the forefront in the world in the distribution and uses of Internet technology. As an extreme case, the most corporatist society within the family of the “Nordic Model”, it offers an opportunity both for intriguing case studies and for challenging and refining existing theory on processes of institutional change in media policy and cultural policy. It supplements two recent, important books on political economy in Scandinavia: Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Kathleen Thelen, 2014), and The Political Construction of Business Interests (Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank, 2013).
There are further reasons to pay particular attention to the Scandinavian, and more specifically the Norwegian cases: (i) They are to varying degrees neo-corporatist societies, characterized by ongoing bargaining over social and political reform processes. From a theoretical perspective this invites reflections which, to some extent, are at odds with the dominant conceptions of institutional change. Neither models of path dependency nor models of aggregate, incremental change focus on the continuous social bargaining over institutional change. (ii) Despite recent processes of liberalization, common to the Western world as a whole, corporatism implies a close connection between state, public sphere, cultural life, and religion. This also means that institutions are closely bundled, in an even stronger way than assumed for example in the Varieties of Capitalism literature. Furthermore, we only have scarce insight in the way the different spheres of corporatism are connected and interact.
In the proposed edited volume we have collected historical-institutional case studies from a broad set of social fields (a detailed outline of contents and contributors is attached):
• Critical assessments of Jürgen Habermas’ theory of the public sphere
• Can the public sphere be considered an institution?
• The central position of the public sphere in social and political change in Norway
• Digital transformations and effects of the growing PR industry on the public sphere
• Institutionalization of social media in local politics and voluntary organizations
• Legitimation work in the public sphere
• freedom of expression and warning in the workplace
• “Return of religion” to the public sphere, and its effects.
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Engelstad, Fredrik; Larsen, Håkon; Rogstad, Jon & Steen-Johnsen, Kari
(2017).
Introduction: The Public Sphere in Change. Institutional Perspectives on Neo-corporatist Society.
In Engelstad, Fredrik; Larsen, Håkon; Rogstad, Jon & Steen-Johnsen, Kari (Ed.),
Institutional Change in the Public Sphere: Views on the Nordic Model.
De Gruyter Open.
ISSN 9783110546330.
p. 1–21.
doi:
10.1515/9783110546330-002.
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The last two decades have seen far-reaching structural transformations in the public sphere. Few topics have attracted more attention, wild guesses, and misinterpretation, than the prospective effects of ongoing changes in information and communication technology. What even the close future will look like, is highly uncertain. Technology, however, is but one element in the broader social processes of change. Its effects on the public sphere emerge in interaction with cultural and institutional patterns, and thereby citizens’ social and political participation. In order to study these transformations three strands of research are brought together in this volume: research on the public sphere, research on institutional change, and research on the Nordic model.
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Engelstad, Fredrik; Larsen, Håkon & Rogstad, Jon
(2017).
The Public Sphere in the Nordic Model.
In Engelstad, Fredrik; Larsen, Håkon; Rogstad, Jon & Steen-Johnsen, Kari (Ed.),
Institutional Change in the Public Sphere: Views on the Nordic Model.
De Gruyter Open.
ISSN 9783110546330.
p. 46–70.
doi:
10.1515/9783110546330-004.
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Five institutional fields were pinpointed as the main components of a public sphere in the introductory chapter (Engelstad, Larsen, Rogstad & Steen-Johnsen, this volume). They vary significantly in their institutional structure as well as the distribution of power. These variations to a large extent determine how the public sphere as a whole will function. In the present chapter each of the fields are briefly presented, in order to show some of their specificities, while at the same time pointing to their links to politics and political regulation. Even though material from Norway is the most prominent in this book, Norwe-gian society is part of a broader type of social formation. A broader focus on Nordic societies accentuates that the constellation of institutions in one country is not the product of purely random historical processes, but represent more stable institutional clusters. To the degree that there are central commonalities between the Nordic coun-tries also when it comes to the shape of the public sphere, it makes sense to talk of a Nordic model in this respect, not only in the politico-economic sphere, as is most common.There have been and still are controversies over the fruitfulness of the concept of a Nordic model. Hence, the chapter is introduced by a brief discussion of alternative ways of conceiving a ‘model’. Moreover, the discussion is informed by two important works: Comparing Media Systems (Hallin & Mancini, 2004) and The Media Welfare State (Syvertsen, Enli, Mjøs & Moe, 2014). Even though these works are limited to the media field, and thus cover only part of the topic treated here, they give valuable impulses to the understanding of the public sphere as a whole.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2016).
CHEF/Leder.
In Stene-Johansen, Knut; Refsum, Christian & Schimanski, Johan Henrik (Ed.),
Å leve sammen. Roland Barthes, individet og fellesskapet.
Spartacus.
ISSN 9788230401781.
p. 154–166.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2016).
Welfare states - India and Scandinavia. Social Rights, Decommodification, Democracy.
In Törnquist, Olle & Harriss, John (Ed.),
Reinventing Social Democratic Development. Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Comparisons.
NIAS Press.
ISSN 9788776942007.
p. 212–237.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2015).
The enigma of capitalism - Beyond human power II and John Gabriel Borkman. Bjørnstjere Bjørnson and Henrik Ibsen as critics of capitalism.
Nordlit.
ISSN 0809-1668.
34,
p. 115–127.
doi:
10.7557/13.3358.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2015).
Offentlighet og strategisk kommunikasjon.
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS).
ISSN 0040-716X.
p. 387–418.
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Hagelund, Anniken & Engelstad, Fredrik
(2015).
Introduction: Institutional Change in Neo-
Corporatist Society.
In Engelstad, Fredrik & Hagelund, Anniken (Ed.),
Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way : Work, Welfare, and Institutional Change in Scandinavia.
De Gruyter Open.
ISSN 9783110444285.
p. 1–16.
doi:
10.1515/9783110436891-002.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2014).
Kronglete stier - lysning i sikte? Argumenter for en ny-weberiansk maktforståelse.
In Claes, Dag Harald; Heidar, Knut & Holst, Cathrine (Ed.),
Politikk i grenseland - Festskrift til Øyvind Østerud.
Universitetsforlaget.
ISSN 9788215022598.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2014).
Om forholdet mellom politikk og kunnskap.
In Winkelmann, Annette & Johansson, Marit (Ed.),
Kulturrikets tilstand 2013 : konferanserapport.
Telemarksforsking.
ISSN 9788274016828.
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Konferanserapport for Kulturrikets tilstand 2013. Konferansen ble holdt på Litteraturhuset i Oslo 30. oktober 2013.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2013).
Kunstens makt? Tingenes makt? En refleksjon over virkninger av tekster og bilder.
Tidsskrift for kulturforskning.
ISSN 1502-7473.
p. 23–38.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2013).
Forstillelse og forførelse. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons "Èn dag".
In Bliksrud, Liv; D'Amico, Giuliano; Wulfsberg, Marius & Åslund, Arnfinn (Ed.),
Den Engasjerte kosmopolitt : nye Bjørnson-studier.
Novus Forlag.
ISSN 9788270997251.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2012).
The sociology of power.
In Aakvaag, Gunnar Colbjørnsen; Jacobsen, Michael Hviid & Johansson, Thomas (Ed.),
Introduction to Sociology. Scandinavian Sensibilities.
Prentice-Hall.
ISSN 9780273727392.
p. 58–80.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2012).
Likestilling og lønnsomhet: Hva vet vi om økonomiske virkninger av kjønnskvotering til ASA-styrer?
Søkelys på arbeidslivet.
ISSN 1504-8004.
29(3),
p. 258–274.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2012).
Michel Foucault som galskapens arkeolog.
In Gilbert, Sidsel Kari; Stänicke, Erik & Engelstad, Fredrik (Ed.),
Psyke, kultur og samfunn: Perspektiver på indre og ytre virkelighet.
Abstrakt forlag.
ISSN 9788279353324.
p. 229–246.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2011).
Kan kjønnskvotering i næringslivet forsvares? : en normativ analyse.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
ISSN 0809-6341.
35,
p. 120–140.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2010).
Henrik Ibsen: The power of charisma.
In Edling, Christoffer & Rydgren, Jens (Ed.),
Sociological insights of great thinkers. Sociology through literature, philosophy, and science.
Praeger.
ISSN 9780313384707.
p. 95–103.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2010).
Rom med utsikt. Om å studere samfunnets toppsjikt.
In Album, Dag; Hansen, Marianne Nordli & Widerberg, Karin (Ed.),
Metodene våre. Eksempler fra samfunnsvitenskapelig forskning.
Universitetsforlaget.
ISSN 9788215014920.
p. 173–188.
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Boken presenterer sosiologenes metodearsenal i form av fortellinger fra virkeligheten. Erfarne sosiologer skriver om egne erfaringer. Boken behandler ikke samfunnsvitenskapelig metode i generelle, allmenne, abstrakte termer. Den trekker snarere fram hvordan metoder og metodeutfordringer kommer fram i det konkrete. Forskningsspørsmålene står i sentrum, og det går tydelig fram hvordan metoder er midler til å framskaffe kunnskap, og hvordan bestemte metoder og bruken av dem avgjør hva slags svar eller kunnskap som kan bli produsert. Sammen representerer bidragsyterne et bredt spekter av tema og metodologiske innfallsvinkler.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2009).
Børs og katedral.
In Bastiansen, Henrik G.; Hagtvet, Bernt; Hjeltnes, Guri; Lundby, Knut & Rønning, Helge (Ed.),
Det Elegante uromoment : Hans Fredrik Dahl og offentligheten : festskrift på 70-årsdagen.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253032610.
p. 196–210.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2009).
The self-made woman. Om blondiner, kjønn og makt.
Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning.
ISSN 0809-6341.
33(3),
p. 194–209.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2009).
Challenges to democracy: fairness and participation.
In Cherkaoui, Mohamed & Hamilton, Peter (Ed.),
Raymond Boudon: A Life in Sociology. Essays in honour of Raymond Boudon.
Bardwell Press.
ISSN 9781905622184.
p. 329–346.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2009).
Democratic elitism - conflict and consensus.
Comparative Sociology.
ISSN 1569-1322.
8(3),
p. 383–401.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2008).
Social conventions and the dialectics of recognition: Power and culture in Shakesepare and Ibsen.
Journal of Power.
ISSN 1754-0291.
1(2),
p. 143–156.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2007).
Introduction: Social and Political Elites in Modern Democracies.
In Engelstad, Fredrik & Gulbrandsen, Trygve Jens (Ed.),
Comparative Studies of Social and Political Elites.
Elsevier.
ISSN 9780762313792.
p. 1–9.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2006).
Demokratisk kapitalisme - er det mulig?
In Engelstad, Fredrik; Lange, Even; Pharo, Helge & Rudeng, Erik (Ed.),
Demokratisk konservatisme.
Pax Forlag.
ISSN 9788253029092.
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Gulbrandsen, Trygve Jens & Engelstad, Fredrik
(2005).
"Elite consensus on the Norwegian welfare state model".
West European Politics.
ISSN 0140-2382.
28(4),
p. 899–919.
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Engelstad, Fredrik & Østerud, Øyvind
(2004).
Democracy and Power.
In Engelstad, Fredrik & Østerud, Øyvind (Ed.),
Power and Democracy. Critical Interventions.
Ashgate.
ISSN 9780754637677.
p. 1–10.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2004).
Economic Democracy - Does it Make Sense in the 21st Century?
In Engelstad, Fredrik & Østerud, Øyvind (Ed.),
Power and Democracy. Critical Interventions.
Ashgate.
ISSN 9780754637677.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2004).
Er det makt i de lyttende ører? Om brutte dialoger og åpne rom.
In Frønes, Ivar & Wetlesen, Tone Schou (Ed.),
Dialog, selv og samfunn.
Abstrakt forlag.
ISSN 9788279351832.
p. 233–249.
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Engelstad, Fredrik; Meyer, Siri; Selle, Per; Skjeie, Hege & Østerud, Øyvind
(2003).
Makt og demokrati. Sluttrapport fra Makt- og demokratiutredningen.
NOU - Norges offentlige utredninger.
ISSN 0333-2306.
p. 1–100.
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Hansen, Marianne Nordli & Engelstad, Fredrik
(2003).
Samfunnsklasser og klasseteorier,
Det norske samfunn.
p. 154–183.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2003).
National Literature, Collective Identity and Political Power.
Comparative Social Research.
ISSN 0195-6310.
21,
p. 111–145.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2003).
Frihet, adel, livskall. Henrik Ibsen som kritiker av demokratiet.
Sosiologi i dag.
ISSN 0332-6330.
33(3),
p. 33–49.
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Engelstad, Fredrik; Larsen, Håkon; Rogstad, Jon & Steen-Johnsen, Kari
(2017).
Institutional Change in the Public Sphere: Views on the Nordic Model.
De Gruyter Open.
ISBN 9783110546330.
269 p.
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The main focus of the book is institutional change in the Scandinavian model, with special emphasis on Norway. There are many reasons to pay closer attention to the Norwegian case when it comes to analyses of changes in the public sphere. In the country’s political history, the arts and the media played a particular role in the processes towards sovereignty at the beginning of the 20th century. On a par with the other Scandinavian countries, Norway is in the forefront in the world in the distribution and uses of Internet technology. As an extreme case, the most corporatist society within the family of the “Nordic Model”, it offers an opportunity both for intriguing case studies and for challenging and refining existing theory on processes of institutional change in media policy and cultural policy. It supplements two recent, important books on political economy in Scandinavia: Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Kathleen Thelen, 2014), and The Political Construction of Business Interests (Cathie Jo Martin and Duane Swank, 2013).
There are further reasons to pay particular attention to the Scandinavian, and more specifically the Norwegian cases: (i) They are to varying degrees neo-corporatist societies, characterized by ongoing bargaining over social and political reform processes. From a theoretical perspective this invites reflections which, to some extent, are at odds with the dominant conceptions of institutional change. Neither models of path dependency nor models of aggregate, incremental change focus on the continuous social bargaining over institutional change. (ii) Despite recent processes of liberalization, common to the Western world as a whole, corporatism implies a close connection between state, public sphere, cultural life, and religion. This also means that institutions are closely bundled, in an even stronger way than assumed for example in the Varieties of Capitalism literature. Furthermore, we only have scarce insight in the way the different spheres of corporatism are connected and interact.
In the proposed edited volume we have collected historical-institutional case studies from a broad set of social fields (a detailed outline of contents and contributors is attached):
• Critical assessments of Jürgen Habermas’ theory of the public sphere
• Can the public sphere be considered an institution?
• The central position of the public sphere in social and political change in Norway
• Digital transformations and effects of the growing PR industry on the public sphere
• Institutionalization of social media in local politics and voluntary organizations
• Legitimation work in the public sphere
• freedom of expression and warning in the workplace
• “Return of religion” to the public sphere, and its effects.
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Kalleberg, Ragnvald; Malnes, Raino Sverre & Engelstad, Fredrik
(2009).
Samfunnsvitenskapenes oppgaver, arbeidsmåter og grunnlagsproblemer. (Særtrykk av 5 kapitler fra bok publisert i 2005).
Gyldendal Akademisk.
ISBN 9788205396616.
150 p.
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Asgeirsdottir, Kristin; Engelstad, Fredrik & Simonsen, Ditte Maja
(2005).
Demokrati og engagement : paradokser i de nordiske demokratier.
Nordisk Råd.
ISBN 9789289310956.
177 p.
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Engelstad, Fredrik; Grenness, Carl-Erik; Kalleberg, Ragnvald & Malnes, Raino Sverre
(2005).
Introduksjon til samfunnsfag. Vitenskapsteori, argumentasjon og faghistorie.
Gyldendal Akademisk.
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Engelstad, Fredrik & Larsen, Håkon
(2018).
The significance of the state for facilitating a civil sphere in Scandinavia.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2018).
Bokessay om: Olav Korsnes, Johan Heilbron, Johs. Hjellbrekke, Felix Bühlmann, Mike Savage (red.): New Directions in Elite Studies.
Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift.
2(5),
p. 429–433.
doi:
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2013).
Dag Solhjell og Jon Øien: Det norske kunstfeltet. En sosiologisk innføring.
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS).
ISSN 0040-716X.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2013).
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Engelstad, Fredrik; Stänicke, Erik & Gilbert, Sidsel Kari
(2012).
Innledning: Psyke, kultur og samfunn.
In Gilbert, Sidsel Kari; Stänicke, Erik & Engelstad, Fredrik (Ed.),
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2011).
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - samfunnsendring som kunnskapsutvikling.
Årbok / Det norske videnskaps-akademi.
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Engelstad, Fredrik & Steen-Johnsen, Kari
(2010).
Hva er det med hybride organisasjoner?
Nordiske organisasjonsstudier.
ISSN 1501-8237.
12(3),
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2009).
Geir Høgsnes in memoriam.
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS).
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2006).
Demokrati som konflikt - filosofi og politikk hos Chantal Mouffe.
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Engelstad, Fredrik
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Engelstad, Fredrik
(2003).
National regimes of collective bargaining in transformation: Nordic trends in a comparative perspective.
Makt- og demokratiutredningen.
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Dølvik, Jon Erik & Engelstad, Fredrik
(2003).
National regimes of collective bargaining in transformation: Nordic trends in a comparative perspective.
Makt og demokratiutredningen.
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Østerud, Øyvind; Engelstad, Fredrik; Meyer, Siri; Selle, Per & Skjeie, Hege
(2003).
Makt og demokrati. Sluttrapport fra Makt- og Demokratiutredningen.
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