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Nordic Administrative Reforms

Lessons for Public Management

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Carsten Greve

    1. Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

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  2. Per Lægreid

    1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  3. Lise H. Rykkja

    1. Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Bergen, Norway

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  • Presents the largest comparative dataset for European public administrations collected to date
  • Offers an in-depth analysis of administrative executives in the five Nordic countries
  • Explores why the Nordic countries have seemed so successful in their approach to the public sector

Part of the book series: Public Sector Organizations (PSO)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: The Nordic Model in Transition

    • Carsten Greve, Per Lægreid, Lise H. Rykkja
    Pages 1-21

  3. Data, Methods, and Some Structural and Individual Characteristics

    • Per Lægreid, Lise H. Rykkja
    Pages 23-35

  4. Reform Context and Status

    • Carsten Greve, Niels Ejersbo
    Pages 37-55

  5. Nordic Administrative Heritages and Contemporary Institutional Design

    • Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg, Helena Wockelberg
    Pages 57-78

  6. Roles, Values, and Motivation

    • Turo Virtanen
    Pages 79-103

  7. Administrative Reform: Processes, Trends, and Content

    • Per Lægreid, Lise H. Rykkja
    Pages 105-128

  8. Relevance of Management Instruments

    • Niels Ejersbo, Carsten Greve
    Pages 129-144

  9. Success in Reforming Administration: What Matters?

    • Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, Pétur Berg Matthíasson, Turo Virtanen
    Pages 145-167

  10. Managing the Financial Crisis

    • Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, Pétur Berg Matthíasson
    Pages 169-188

  11. The Nordic Model Revisited: Active Reformers and High Performing Public Administrations

    • Carsten Greve, Per Lægreid, Lise H. Rykkja
    Pages 189-212

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-236
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About this book

This book is based on a unique data set and assesses in comparative terms the public management reforms in the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Based on the assessments of administrative executives, the book compares the Nordic countries with the Anglo-Saxon, the Germanic, the Napoleonic and the East European group of countries. The book addresses the following questions: What reform trends are relevant in the public administrations of the Nordic countries? What institutional features characterize the state authorities in these countries?  What characterizes the role identity, self-understanding, dominant values, and motivation of administrative executive in the Nordic countries? What characterizes reform processes, trends and content, what is the relevance of different types of management instruments, and what are their perceived effects and the perceived performance of the public administration? The book also examines how the different Nordiccountries dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, and how the differences and similarities in their approaches can be explained.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Carsten Greve

  • University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Per Lægreid

  • Uni Research Rokkan Centre, Bergen, Norway

    Lise H. Rykkja

About the editors

Carsten Greve is Professor of Public Management and Governance at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He is also Academic Director of the CBS Public Private Platform. His research interests include public management reform and public-private partnerships in an international perspective. He teaches at the executive Master of Public Governance program in Copenhagen.


Per Lægreid is Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen, Norway. He has published extensively on public sector reform, public management and institutional change from a comparative perspective. His latest publications include articles in Governance, Public Administration, International Review of Administrative Science, Public Administration Review and Public Management Review.


Lise H. Rykkja is Senior Researcher at the Uni Research Rokkan Centre,Norway. Her research concentrates on the organization and development of public administration and public policies based in a broad institutional and comparative perspective. Her latest publication includes articles in Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review and International Journal of Public Administration.


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