Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management) - Hardcover

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9781138675940: Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives (Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management)
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ISBN 10: 1138675946 ISBN 13: 9781138675940
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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 Public Management (NPM) in Scandinavia. Although there is a general perception that there is a clear-cut ‘Scandinavian’ model of public policy and management, this book offers a more nuanced interpretation, illuminating subtle distinctions in political, social and economic context which are significant in identifying receptive contexts for the adoption of modernization policies.

Organized into three main themes in the modernization of the welfare state – management, governance and marketization – the contents revolve around unique empirical accounts, revealing distinctive Scandinavian characteristics of reform initiatives. The received wisdom may be a hesitant follower of the UK and the USA. But this book offers an alternative interpretation, revealing an edginess in certain Scandinavian settings, particularly in Sweden, which is a largely unrecognized.

Without compromising the welfare state, it may be a bold frontrunner in the development of New Public Management.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138675946
ISBN 13 
9781138675940
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
278
Editor
Lapsley Irvine, Knutsson Hans

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