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Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Modernizing the Public Sector Scandinavian Perspectives

Edited By Irvine Lapsley, Hans Knutsson Copyright 2017
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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



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Biography

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.

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

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