Carsten Greve, Per Lægreid, Lise H. Rykkja (2016):
Nordic Administrative Reforms Lessons for Public Management
London: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Type of publication:
Bok
Link to publication:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-56363-7
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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-56363-7
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DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56363-7
Innhold:
1 Introduction: The Nordic Model in Transition
Carsten Greve, Per Lægreid, and Lise H. Rykkja
2 Data, Methods, and Some Structural and Individual Characteristics
Per Lægreid and Lise H. Rykkja
3 Reform Context and Status
Carsten Greve and Niels Ejersbo
4 Nordic Administrative Heritages and Contemporary Institutional Design
Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg and Helena Wockelberg
5 Roles, Values, and Motivation
Turo Virtanen
6 Administrative Reform: Processes, Trends, and Content
Per Lægreid and Lise H. Rykkja
7 Relevance of Management Instruments
Niels Ejersbo and Carsten Greve
8 Success in Reforming Administration: What Matters?
Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, Pétur Berg Matthíasson, and Turo Virtanen
9 Managing the Financial Crisis
Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson and Pétur Berg Matthíasson
10 The Nordic Model Revisited: Active Reformers and High Performing Public Administrations
Carsten Greve, Per Lægreid, and Lise H. Rykkja
Number of pages:
252
ISBN:
978-1-137-56362-0
Language of publication:
Engelsk
NSD-reference:
4891
This page was last updated:
26/6 2024
Affiliations related to this publication:
- Departement
- Sentraladministrative organ (direktorat m.m.)
- Forvaltningsorgan med særskilte fullmakter
- Forvaltningsbedrift
- Andre ordinære forvaltningsorgan
Summary:
This book is based on a unique data set and assesses in comparative terms the public management reforms in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Based on the assessments of administrative executives, the book compares the Nordic countries with the Anglo-Saxon, the Germanic, the Napoleonic and the East European group of countries. The book addresses the following questions: What reform trends are relevant in the public administrations of the Nordic countries? What institutional features characterize the state authorities in these countries? What characterizes the role identity, self-understanding, dominant values, and motivation of administrative executive in the Nordic countries? What characterizes reform processes, trends and content, what is the relevance of different types of management instruments, and what are their perceived effects and the perceived performance of the public administration? The book also examines how the different Nordiccountries dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, and how the differences and similarities in their approaches can be explained.