Webpages tagged with « public administration»

I dette paperet argumenterer Morten Egeberg for at nasjonale administrasjoner i løpet av de siste ti årene også har blir deler av en felles EU-administrasjon sammen med Europakommisjonen og EU-byråene.

ARENA Working Paper 10/2010 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg

In this essay Johan P. Olsen argues for improved theoretical understanding in the field of EU governance in order to overcome four impediments in the literature: tidying up the conceptual morass, amending the inconclusive evidence, ousting the ghost of “the state” as a major frame of reference, and getting beyond the tyranny of dichotomies.

ARENA Working Paper 10/2008 (pdf)

Johan P. Olsen

In this paper the authors document that agency officials pay significantly less attention to signals from executive politicians than their counterparts within ministerial departments.

ARENA Working Paper 09/2009 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal

This paper sketches an organization theory-based approach to the study of public administrative behavior, institutions and developments in the context of democratic governance.

ARENA Working Paper 01/2007 (pdf)

Johan P. Olsen

In spite of relentless criticism over many years bureaucracies and bureaucrats are possibly experiencing a renaissance. The aim of this paper is to make sense of this puzzle by exploring bureaucracy as a specific way of organizing public administration in democratic societies. Through what processes and under what conditions is administrative organization likely to come close to the Weberian ideal type?

ARENA Working Paper 14/2007 (pdf)

Johan P. Olsen

This paper gives a shorthand account of the approach of new institutionalism, illuminating its view of political institutions as endogenous and self-containing to explain political performance and change.

ARENA Working Paper 11/2005 (pdf)

James G. March & Johan P. Olsen