3rd edition. — W.W. Norton & Company, 2012. — 408 p. Policy making is a political struggle over values and ideas. By exposing the paradoxes that underlie even seemingly straightforward policy decisions, Policy Paradox shows students that politics cannot be cleansed from the process in favor of “rationality.” Author Deborah Stone has fully revised and updated this popular text,...
Article: Research Policy - 2003 - No. 32 - P. 789-808. Theories on project management are dominated by a perspective on singular projects, treating the unit of analysis as a lonely phenomenon. Anchored in a comparative case study, this paper discusses how the interior processes of a project are influenced by its historical and organizational context. The paper illustrates how...
Article: The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal - 20212 - Volume 17(1) - article 4 - P. 1-25. There is nothing inherently new in the idea of cross-cutting collaboration, 'joined-up government' and 'networked governance' (Pollitt, 2003; Hartley, 2005; Mulgan, 2009). However, in the last decade, new forms of internal units have been set up within public...
Article: Political Research Quarterly - 2011. - No. 4 - P. 1-13 Comparative studies of corruption focus on the selection and incentives of policymakers. With few exceptions, actors who are in charge of implementing policies have been neglected. This article analyzes an original data set on the bureaucratic features and its effects on corruption in fifty-two countries. Two...
Article - 12 p. Publication details not specified. It is widely recognized that public innovation is the intelligent alternative to blind across-the-board-cuts in times of shrinking budgets, and that innovation may help to break policy deadlocks and adjust welfare services to new and changing demands. At the same time, there is growing evidence that multi-actor collaboration in...
Article: Published in The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management, edited by Per Lagreid and Tom Christensen. Ashgate Publishing: Burlington, 2010 - pp. 407-419. This chapter starts from recent research results showing that the state, by virtue of its legality, impartiality, and accountability, is critical to producing macro-level social trust in society Such trust,...
Article: SAJEMS Special Issue - 2014 No. 17 - P. 7-21. In this article, we argue that an increased focus on the processes of projectification would be beneficial to project research. By introducing a distinction between narrow and broad conceptualisations of projectification, we extend this research area from its current concern with the increased primacy of projects in...
Publication details not specified. - 15 p. The outcomes of applying New Public Management (NPM) principles in Western countries' public administration have been analyzed quite a lot, but the particular situation in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries has received less attention. Similarly, Neo-Weberian State (NWS) - although being a relatively new concept - has not...
Article: Public Management Review - 2014 - No. 4 - P. 2-28. This article reviews the New Public Management (NPM) literature in central and eastern Europe (CEE) with the aim of assessing whether reforms have 'worked'. Increasingly, academics have tended to argue against the suitability of NPM instruments in this region. To understand the impact of this much-debated policy, we...
Publication details not specified. In modern representative democracies, such as the Swedish one, the demands put on governments to govern are high. They are responsible and accountable not only for state activities, but also for what is happening in the entire society. And therefore they should have the tools and resources required to govern.
Article: Journal of Democracy - 2005 - Volume 16 - Number 3, July 2005- P. 20-34. Steven Levitsky is assistant professor of government at Harvard University. Lucan Way, assistant professor of political science at Temple University, is a visiting scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. They are currently coauthoring a book on post-Cold War competitive...
Article: International Review of Administrative Sciences - 212 - No. 78(1) - P. 3-9. Government transparency has become 'hot' since President Barack Obama put transparency high on his agenda for change in government. He emphasized that openness is needed to restore the trust of citizens in government. President Obama is certainly not the only nor the first political leader to...
Article: International Journal of Project Management - 2015. j.ijproman.2015.03.010. - P. 1-12. Projects are increasingly cross-cultural and complex, both technically and relationally. The diversity of participants enhances differences in perceptions and understanding of meaning of the variety of signals (such as drawings and messages); often, the consequence is reduced...
Article: Public Management Review - Feb., 2007 - P. 21-53. This article focuses specifically on how and why managers might go about using stakeholder identification and analysis techniques in order to help their organizations meet their mandates, fulfill their missions and create public value. A range of stakeholder identification and analysis techniques is reviewed. The...
Article: Public Administration Review - December, 2006 (Special Issue) - P. 44-55. People who want to tackle tough social problems and achieve beneficial community outcomes are beginning to understand that multiple sectors of a democratic society — business, nonprofits andphilanthropies, the media, the community, and government — must collaborate to deal effectively and...
Article: The American Review of Public Administration - 2012. - No. XX(X) - P. 1-16. This article analyzes the most important issues, concepts, and ideas in collaborative public management research and practice today.The issues, concepts, and ideas are (a) competing definitions of collaboration; (b) changes in the environment of public management that have encouraged the growth...
Article: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory - May, 2011. - P. 1-29. Collaborative governance draws from diverse realms of practice and research in public administration. This article synthesizes and extends a suite of conceptual frameworks, research findings, and practice-based knowledge into an integrative framework for collaborative governance. The framework...
Article: Social Politics - 2011 - Volume 18 - Number 4 - P. 469-489. Despite initial optimism, gender mainstreaming often turns into a formalistic exercise whilst losing sight of its broader goal of promoting gender equality. This article suggests that a problem is gender mainstreaming's largely undefined goal, combined with a rational logic underpinning its implementation. We...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 346 p. This book examines the impact of medical and psychological illness on foreign policy decision making. Illness provides specific, predictable, and recognizable shifts in attention, time perspective, cognitive capacity, judgment, and emotion, which systematically affect impaired leaders. In particular, this book discusses the ways in...