Living in the past? Change and continuity in the norwegian central civil service

Public Administration Review

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 951-961

  Christensen, Tom ^a   Lægreid, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249142601     PISSN: 00333352     EISSN: 15406210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.02044.x     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Aberbach, Joel D., and Bert A. Rockman. 2000. In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive. Washington, DC : Brookings Institution Press.
2. Christiansen, Peter Munk, and Hilmar Rommetvedt. 1999. From Corporatism to Lobbyism? Scandinavian Political Studies 22 (3 195 220.
3. Christensen, Tom. 2003. Narrative of Norwegian Governance: Elaborating the Strong State. Public Administration 81 (1 163 190.
4. Christensen, Tom, and Per Lægreid. 1998a. Administrative Reform Policy: The Case of Norway. International Review of Administrative Sciences 64 (3 457 475.
5. Christensen, Tom, and Per Lægreid. 1998b. Den moderne forvaltning The modern civil service Oslo : Tano Aschehoug.
6. Christensen, Tom, and Per Lægreid, eds. 2006. Autonomy and Regulation: Coping with Agencies in the Modern State. Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar.
7. Christensen, Tom, and Per Lægreid. 2007a. The Challenge of Coordination in Central Government Organizations. Presentation to the Study Group on Governance of Public Sector Organizations, EGPA Conference, Madrid, September 19-22.
8. Christensen, Tom, and Per Lægreid. 2007b. NPM and Beyond - Leadership, Culture, and Demography. Paper presented at the Conference on Leading the Future of the Public Sector: The Third Transatlantic Dialogue, Newark, DE, May 31-June 2.
9. Christensen, Tom, Amund Lie, and Per Lægreid. 2007. Still Fragmented or Reassertion of the Centre? In Transcending New Public Management: The Transformation of Public Sector Reforms, edited by Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid, 17 42. Aldershot, UK : Ashgate.
10. Egeberg, Morten. 2003. How Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective. In Handbook of Public Administration, edited by B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre, 116 126. London : Sage.
11. Krasner, Stephen D. 1988. Sovereignty: An Institutional Perspective. Comparative Political Studies 21 (1 66 94.
12. Lægreid, Per. 1995. Feminization of the Central Public Administration. In Women in Nordic Politics: Closing the Gap, edited by Lauri Karvonen and Per Selle, 229 248. Aldershot, UK : Dartmouth.
13. Lægreid, Per, and Johan P. Olsen. 1978. Byråkrati og beslutninger [Bureaucracy and decisions]. Bergen : Universitetsforlaget.
14. Lægreid, Per, and Johan P. Olsen. 1984. Top Civil Servants - Key Actors on Different Teams. In Bureaucrats and Policy Making: A Comparative Overview, edited by Ezra N. Suleiman, 206 241. New York : Holmes & Meier.
15. Lægreid, Per, Vidar W. Rolland, Paul G. Roness, and John-Erik Ågotnes. 2003. The Structural Anatomy of the Norwegian state 1947-2003. Working Paper no. 21/2003, Rokkan Centre.
16. Lægreid, Per, Paul G. Roness, and Kristin Rubecksen. 2006. Performance Management in Practice - The Norwegian Way. Financial Accountability and Management 22 (3 251 270.
17. Lægreid, Per, Paul G. Roness, and Kristin Rubecksen. 2007. Modern Management Tolls in State Agencies: The Case of Norway. International Public Management Review 10 (4 387 413.
18. Lægreid, Per, and Lois R. Wise. 2007. Reforming Human Resource Management in Civil Service Systems: Recruitment, Mobility, and Representativeness. In Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century, edited by Fritz van der Meer, Theo Toonen, and Jos Raadschelders. London : Palgrave.
19. Langhoff, K. 2007. Struktur, demografi og kontaktmønster. Endring og stabilitet i departementene fra 1976 til 2006 [Structure, demography and contact patterns: Change and stability in ministries 1976-2006]. Master's thesis, University of Oslo.
20. Light, Paul C. 1998. The Tides of Reform: Making Government Work, 1945-1995. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press.
21. March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. 1983. Organizing Political Life: What Administrative Reorganization Tells Us about Government. American Political Science Review 77 (2 281 297.
22. March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. 1989. Rediscovering Institutions: The Organizational Basis of Politics. New York : Free Press.
23. Meier, Kenneth J. 1973. Representative Bureaucracy. An Empirical Analysis. American Political Science Review 69 (2 526 542.
24. Olsen, Johan P. 1983. Organized Democracy. Bergen : Scandinavian University Press.
25. Olsen, Johan P. 1996. Norway - Slow Learner or another Triumph of the Tortoise? In Lessons from Experience, edited by Johan P. Olsen and B. Guy Peters, 189 213. Oslo : Scandinavian University Press.
26. Orren, Karen, and Stephen Skowronek. 1994. Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a "New" Institutionalism. In The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations, edited by Lawrence C. Dodd and Calvin Jillson, 311 330. Boulder, CO : Westview Press.
27. Pfeffer, Jeffrey. 1983. Organizational Demography. In Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 5, edited by L. L. Cummings and Barry M. Staw, 299 357. Greenwich, CT : JAI Press.
28. Pierson, Paul. 2004. Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Social Analysis. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press.
29. Pollitt, Christopher, and Geert Bouckaert. 2004. Public Management Reform: A Comparative Analysis. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
30. Rhodes, R. A. W. and Patrick Weller, eds. 2001. The Changing World of Top Officials: Mandarins or Valets? Buckingham, UK : Open University Press.
31. Selznick, Philip. 1957. Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation. New York : Harper & Row.
32. Simon, Herbert A. 1957. Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision Making Processes in Administrative Organization. New York : Macmillan.
33. Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 1965. Social Structure and Organizations. In Handbook of Organizations, edited by James G. March, 142 193. Chicago : Rand McNally.
34. Streeck, Wolfgang, and Kathleen Theelen. 2005. Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
35. Tsui, Anne S., and Barbara A. Gutek. 1999. Demographic Differences in Organizations. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books.