Administrative strategies of our time / Noralv Veggeland, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Veggeland, Noralv, 1941- editor.

Series:

European political, economic and security issues series.

European political, economic, and security issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Strategic planning.

Public administration--Norway.

Strategic planning--Norway.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages).

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publisher's, Incorporated, [2017]

Summary:

Author/Editor Biography:Noralv Veggeland is a Professor of Public Policy, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. Lillehammer, Norway. He is a former Rector of his University, Managing and Research Director of Eastern Norway Research Institute, and Managing and Research Director of Nordic Regional Research Institute (NordREFO), Copenhagen.Book Description:This book advances innovative arguments and presents original evidence to shed light on the Western diversity of administrative strategies of our time. In an excellent way, it presents an original account of national governance politics. The authors demonstrate persuasively that the strengthening of strategic thinking has had important consequences for the domestic strategies of collaboration and mobilization for redistribution, counteracting negative globalization effects. For its thoughtful arguments and rich empirical basis, this book deserves to become a key reference in the literature on diversified administrative strategies and governance in a world of change. What about the survival of New Public Management (NPM) governance? What about democracy?The book contributes to the political economy of administrative strategies and governance processes in the realm of the Nordic welfare state model, with a specific focus on the states of Norway and Sweden as contributors to the subject. Beyond that, the chapter authors have already made their mark through joint and individual works. In this volume, they take their thinking one-step further, inquiring into theory and the manner in which the adjudication of disputes can be a catalyst for democracy and agreements in partnerships and national governments. The book further presents a number of highly insightful case studies to tease out the projected linkages. This thought-provoking book is a must-read for all theoreticians and practitioners in the field of political and social sciences.Target Audience:BA, Ma and PhD, Students, Civil servents and politicients - and interesting ordinary people.

Contents:

Strategic management : the modern policy religion / Jan-Evert Nilsson

Regulatory governance strategies : what about democracy? / Noralv Veggeland

Innovation and the creation of public value / Rolf Rønning

Dimensions of collaborative administrative strategies and policy innovation / Ulla Higdem

The adventurous state and the valley of death : a comparative study of state and venture capital strategies in Norway and Sweden / Tor Helge Pedersen

Societal governing efficiency : problem relevance or system dependency? : the case of Norway / Per Kristen Mydske

Automatic stabilization and the active state / Håvard Teigen

Management by objectives as an administrative strategy in Norwegian schools : interpretations and judgments in contrived liberation / Yngve Nordkvelle and Lene Nyhus

Foreign policy strategies : Norway and the high north / Geir Hønneland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5361-1924-5