Bureaucracy and society in transition comparative perspectives / edited by Haldor Byrkjeflot, University of Oslo, Norway; Fredrik Engelstad, University of Oslo, Norway.
| Other author | Byrkjeflot, Haldor. |
| Other author | Engelstad, Fredrik, 1944- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | xv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Comparative social research ; volume 33 Comparative social research ; v. 33. ^A1052210 |
| Contents | Introduction: Bureaucracy in transition / Haldor Byrkjeflot and Fredrik Engelstad -- The impact and interpretation of Weber's bureaucratic ideal type in organisation theory and public administration / Haldor Byrkjeflot -- Building state infrastructural capacities : Sweden and Greece / Apostolis Papakostas -- From neutral competence ot competent neutrality? Revisiting neutral competence as the core normative foundation of Western bureaucracy / Thurid Hustedt and Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen -- Outcome-based performance management systems : experiences from the Danish and Swedish tax agencies / Karen Boll -- Anti-bureaucratic identities among top bureaucrats? Societal norms and professional practices among senior civil servants in Britain, France and Norway / Marte Mangset -- Economists in government bureaucracies / Johan Christensen -- Multiple shades of grey : opening the black box of public sector executives' hybrid role identities / Stephan Leixnering, Andrea Schikowitz, Gerhard Hammerschmid and Renate E. Meyer -- The building of the Scandinavian states : establishing Weberian bureaucracy and curbing corruption from the mid-seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth century / Mette Frisk Jensen -- Nordic bureaucracy beyond new public management / Carsten Greve, Per Lœgreid and Lise H. Rykkja -- A new organisation of public administration : from internatl to external control / Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud, Thomas Carrington, Kim Klarskov Jeppesen and Külli Taro -- Street-level bureaucracy and crosscutting cleavages in municipal worlds / Halvard Vike -- Codification and ethos of office : contextualising a codex-solution introduced in the Danish central administration / Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth and Anne Roelsgaard Obling. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018420206 |
| ISBN | 178743284X |
| ISBN | 9781787432840 |
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