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Deweyan Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Action Research

2019

This article aims to establish a line of continuity between John Dewey's democratic and educational ideals and the practice of action research, to justify that the latter affords an adequate means to enact Dewey's ideals against the destructive challenges that neoliberalism poses to democracy today. This aim involves three ideas that will be developed in three corresponding sections. After the Introduction, the first section analyzes at length the main tenets of Dewey's thoughts about democracy by emphasizing the role of the educational dimension. The article then approaches neoliberalism by focusing on one of its variants, New Public Management, and explains why the latter implies a direct…

Suuret liikelaitokset – uuden julkisen hallinnon muurinmurtajat?

2020

Politisk styring i markedsorienterte kommuner

2006

Masteroppgave i offentlig politikk og ledelse 2006 - Høgskolen i Agder, Kristiansand Reformer tar sikte på å fornye offentlig sektor. Allerede fra slutten av 1970-tallet og frem til i dag, har offentlig sektor blitt utsatt for reformer. Inn under slike reformer hører virkemidler som konkurranseutsetting. Hovedhensikten i denne oppgaven er å se hvilken effekt konkurranseutsetting får på politisk styring. Det interessante å se er om eventuelle endringer medfører svekket eller styrket politisk styring. Det er utarbeidet to hypoteser: Hypotesene har sitt utgangspunkt fra to teoretiske retninger som mener å kunne si noe om hva som skjer i kommuner som innfører markedstenkning. For å kunne ha en …

Three Models of Public Administration Reform and the Legitimacy of Civil Service

2018

Public administration is subject to permanent reforms, adapting its organization, tasks, approach to the needs and ideas of the modern world. At the same time, looking for the elements and forms that legitimize its functioning. Introduced reforms change the role and position of the civil service, affecting its legitimacy. Executive Management Model NPM affects the range of public benefits, and thus, indirectly, acceptance of a new model of public service. NPG model strengthens the position of the citizen in the process of setting public purpose, forces civil service to the negotiations, consensual activities while defining the public interest. In this way, a citizen deciding together with t…

Ny arbeids- og velferdsforvaltning : oppretting av NAV-kontorer i kommunene : rapport fra en pilotstudie høsten 2006

2006

1.juli 2006 ble den Nye Arbeids- og Velferdsforvaltning opprettet. Det er den største omorganisering som er skjedd innen velferdstjenesteområdet i Norge noen gang. 16000 ansatte er involvert og alle landets kommuner blir engasjert i denne. For å få en oversikt over reformen og over området som endres ble denne rapporten laget. Rapporten er derfor en beskrivende rapport både når det gjelder fortid om hvordan de tidligere etatene ble til og fungerte og når det gjelder nåsituasjonen for reformen. Fortiden beskrives i en gjennomgang av historien bak, mens nåsituasjonen beskrives dels ved en gjennomgang av reformens ulike dokumenter og ved svarene som fremkom i en intervjurunde foretatt i forhol…

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND POSSIBILITIES OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC SECTOR

2014

One of the important parts of Human Resource Management (HRM) is knowledge management and professional development of employees of each organisation. There are no doubts that it is vital for general organisations development and sustainability. Professional development of public sector employees is necessary for developing environment. There should be training programmes especially for public sector institutions’ employees from new European Union countries. For this study authors make the assumption that public sector employees are all officials, civil servants, staff and employees engaged in public sector organisation activities and employed by these organisations. The problem outlined in …

Apposition, contradiction, conflict and domination

2014

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to qualitatively describe and explain the contemporary Finnish discourse of municipal managers. The emphasis within is on analyzing the encounters of the public sector management discourse and the private sector management discourse, and the effects that these encounters have on the construction and representation of municipal management. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a three-phase discourse analysis, proceeding from the textual and linguistic level through interpretive analysis to critical analysis. This analysis is based on the proceedings and presentations of a seminar of municipal leadership and management, arranged in 2013 i…

Public Financial Management Reforms: The Role of Ipsas in Latin-America

2016

Summary During the last 30 years, many public administration reforms promoted by New Public Management have been undertaken. These reforms have spread to Latin-American countries and include changes in governmental accounting systems, where the implementation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs) has been a stimulus for modernization. This article aims to clarify the situation of IPSASs implementation in the Latin-American context as well as the stimuli for and effects of their implementation. The analysis shows that there is an emerging international trend to adopt IPSASs in Latin-American countries although at the same time, there are evident obstacles to achieving …

Using System Dynamics to Assess a Web 2.0 Governance Model for Public Service Delivery

2011

In the last decade Public Administrations (PA) have introduced new governance models to design, implement and deliver public services to citizens. Such models have been also driven by the New Public Management (NPM) movement, which contributed to increase the pressure on PA, of both central governments and communities, to design more citizen-centric oriented services aimed to improve PA outcomes, efficiency and accountability. A key-lever on which PA can act on to reach the above goals is the use of WEB 2.0 technologies, which can enhance a fruitful collaboration between citizens and PA, not only in an ex-post analysis, but also, and in particular, in an ex-ante phase, letting the final use…

The Reform and Innovation as Rhetoric and Method

2018

We start from an observation from a well-known Swedish organisational analyst, Nils Brunsson, which reads like irony but feels like reality: the only guaranteed outcome of (organisational) reform is the next reform. What Brunsson calls ‘the reform of reform’ will be – all too – familiar to many readers, particularly those working in the public sector. Given repeated exposure to permanent reorganization – brought in under the mantel of reform and innovation – it is tempting to ascribe this permanent revolution to one or both of two causes: the failure of previous reform attempts and/or the need of senior managers to demonstrate their ‘transformative’ effects upon their organization in order …