Nordic Administrative Reforms: Lessons for Public Management

✍ Scribed by Carsten Greve, Per Lægreid, Lise H. Rykkja (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 248
Series: Public Sector Organizations
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 Nordic countries dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, and how the differences and similarities in their approaches can be explained.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: The Nordic Model in Transition....Pages 1-21
Data, Methods, and Some Structural and Individual Characteristics....Pages 23-35
Reform Context and Status....Pages 37-55
Nordic Administrative Heritages and Contemporary Institutional Design....Pages 57-78
Roles, Values, and Motivation....Pages 79-103
Administrative Reform: Processes, Trends, and Content....Pages 105-128
Relevance of Management Instruments....Pages 129-144
Success in Reforming Administration: What Matters?....Pages 145-167
Managing the Financial Crisis....Pages 169-188
The Nordic Model Revisited: Active Reformers and High Performing Public Administrations....Pages 189-212
Back Matter....Pages 213-236

✦ Subjects

Public Administration;Public Administration;European Politics;Comparative Politics

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