Christensen, Tom ; Lægreid, Per (2009):
Living in the Past? Change and Continuity in the Norwegian Central Civil Service
Public Administration Review Volume 69, Issue 5, pages 951–961, September/October 2009
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Type of publication:
Tidsskriftsartikkel
Link to publication:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.02044.x/full
Link to review:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.02044.x/abstract
Number of pages:
10
ISSN:
1540-6210
Language of publication:
Engelsk
Country of publication:
Norge
NSD-reference:
3043
This page was last updated:
19/5 2014
Affiliations related to this publication:
- Departement
Summary:
In this article, the authors describe the changes that have taken place in the Norwegian civil service over the past 30 years, focusing on demographic changes in education and gender and on changes in civil servants' tasks, attitudes, and contact patterns. The changes are analyzed using tenure, structural, and demographic perspectives. The unique empirical database is provided by surveys conducted every 10 years of civil servants in the ministries since 1976. The main empirical findings are that there has been a combination of robustness and change. The findings show little support for the generational version of a tenure perspective, meaning that civil servants are not living in the past. The structural perspective, illustrated by the importance of formal position, best explains the variations in civil servants' contact patterns and attitudes, followed by the career version of a tenure perspective. Demography, as represented by different educational backgrounds and gender, also has an effect.