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Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Editat de Irvine Lapsley, Hans Knutsson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2019
As policymakers and scholars evaluate possible ways forward in the reform and renewal of public services by governments caught up in a recessionary environment, this book aims to offer something different – a comprehensive analysis of the development of the ‘Scandinavian’ way of modernizing public-sector management. No book has yet provided an inside view of the development and character of New Public Management (NPM) in Scandinavia. Although there is a general perception that there is a clear-cut ‘Scandinavian’ model of public policy and management, this book offers a more nuanced interpretation, illuminating subtle distinctions in political, social and economic context which are significant in identifying receptive contexts for the adoption of modernization policies.


Organized into three main themes in the modernization of the welfare state – management, governance and marketization – the contents revolve around unique empirical accounts, revealing distinctive Scandinavian characteristics of reform initiatives. The received wisdom may be a hesitant follower of the UK and the USA. But this book offers an alternative interpretation, revealing an edginess in certain Scandinavian settings, particularly in Sweden, which is a largely unrecognized.


Without compromising the welfare state, it may be a bold frontrunner in the development of New Public Management.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367878535
ISBN-10: 0367878534
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Making Sense of Public Sector Reforms: Scandinavian Perspectives


Irvine Lapsley


2. New Public Management in a Scandinavian Context


Hans Knutsson, Ola Mattisson, Salme Nasi, Kari Nyland & Peter Skarbak




Part 1: Management


3. Shaping NPM: Social Democratic Values at Work


Tom S. Karlsson


4. Challenging the Myth of NPM in Denmark – An Argument from the Health System


Nikolaj Kure and Margit Malmmose


5. Process-orientation and Management Control in Health Care Organizations


Gert Paulsson


6. The Welfare Sate that Wanted to Keep Track of its Citizens: Personal Identity


Numbers as Administrative Technology


Alexander Paulsson




Part 2: Governance


7. The Unfolding of Agency Autonomy over Time: The Swedish Social Insurance


Agency 2003-2015


Louise Bringselius


8. Audit in a Trusting Climate


Age Johnsen, Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud, Thomas Carrington, and Kim Klarskov


Jeppesen


9. Local Government Cooperation – A Better Way to Respond to Conditions?


Ola Mattisson


10. What About the Boards? Issues of Transparency and Accountability in Board


Composition


Anna Thomasson


11. Leadership and Strategy in a Transforming Academic Field.


Christine Blomqvist




Part 3: Marketization


12. Market Solutions


Fredrik Andersson


13. Introducing Quasi-markets in Primary Care: The Swedish Experience


Anna Hager Glenngard & Anders Anell


14. Managing Profits and Professionalism in the Swedish School System


Robert Wenglen


15. Welfare Choices: A Story of Market Forces and Social Progress



Notă biografică

Irvine Lapsley is director of the Institute of Public Sector Accounting Research at the University of Edinburgh Business School, UK.


Hans Knutsson is a senior lecturer at the School of Economics and Management at Lund University, Sweden.

Recenzii

It is a common mistake to equate ‘New Public Management’ with the ideas and practices of the Anglo-American world. This book provides a valuable corrective to that view by analysing the development of New Public Management from a Scandinavian perspective. It brings out the Scandinavian historical roots of some important ideas about modern public service management, traces their dynamics and brings out the special social context that shapes their outcomes. Anyone interested in how to make public services work effectively should read this book.
Professor Christopher Hood, Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK

Descriere

As policy makers evaluate options in the reform and renewal of public services, this book offers an in-depth analysis of the development of the "Scandic" way of modernizing the public sector management. Organised into themes of management, governance and marketization, the contents revolve around empirical accounts, revealing distinctive Scandic