Welfare Administration Reform Between Coordination and Specialization
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Author
Christensena , Tom & Per Lægreid
Year
2013
Publisher
International Journal of Public Administration Volume 36, Issue 8, 2013
Type of publication:
Tidsskriftsartikkel
Link to publication:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01900692.2013.772628
Link to review:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01900692.2013.772628
Number of pages:
10
ISSN:
0190-0692
Language of publication:
Engelsk
Country of publication:
Norge
NSD-reference:
3033
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2014-05-14 14:00:21.823
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Summary
This article identifies transboundary coordination practices and related modes of specialization in welfare administration reforms. We describe how the 2005 reform of the welfare administration in Norway started as a process of integration involving merger and partnership, but later, following the 2008 reorganization, introduced re-centralization and re-specialization. The main research questions are how we can explain this change of administrative reform? Why was the integrative administrative reform not sustainable and reorganization through re-specialization seen as a better answer to the “wicked issues” of welfare services? To answer these questions we apply a structural-instrumental perspective and a cultural-institutional perspective.