Nordic administrative reforms : lessons for public management
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Nordic administrative reforms : lessons for public management
(Public sector organizations)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
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  Iwate
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  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-230) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Nordic Model in Transition
- Carsten Greve, Per Laegreid and Lise H. Rykkja.- Chapter 2. Data, methods, and some structural and individual characteristics
- Per Laegreid and Lise H. Rykkja.- Chapter 3. Reform Context and Status
- Carsten Greve and Niels Ejersbo.- Chapter 4. Nordic Administrative Heritages and Contemporary Institutional Design
- Shirin Ahlback OEberg and Helena Wockelberg.- Chapter 5. Roles, Values, and Motivation
- Turo Virtanen.- Chapter 6.Administrative Reform - Processes, Trends, and Content
- Per Laegreid and Lise H. Rykkja.- Chapter 7. Relevance of Management Instruments
- Niels Ejersbo and Carsten Greve.- Chapter 8. Success in Reforming Administration - What Matters?
- Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, Petur Berg Matthiasson and Turo Virtanen.- Chapter 9. Managing the Financial Crisis
- Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson and Petur Berg Matthiasson.- Chapter 10. The Nordic Model Revisited: Active Reformers and High Performing Public Administrations
- Carsten Greve, Per Laegreid, and Lise H. Rykkja.
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