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| Title: | NPM and beyond : leadership, culture, and demography |
| Authors: | Christensen, Tom
Lægreid, Per |
| Issue Date: | Jun-2007 |
| Publisher: | Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies |
| Series/Report no.: | Working Paper 3 - 2007 |
| Abstract: | In this paper we ask what happens to NPM and post-NPM reform elements when they
encounter the realities of the Norwegian civil service. The empirical data used in the
analysis are taken mainly from surveys of civil servants in the Norwegian ministries
conducted in 1996 and 2006. Main research questions are if the administrative culture
has changed over the past decade towards a greater NPM emphasis; to what degree
NPM-related reforms have been put into practice; what have been the most significant
reform elements; and how to explain the variation in the use of different administrative
reform tools? How important is leadership relative to other structural factors and to
demographic and cultural features? A general finding is that cultural features make a
significant difference, but having a leadership position and task structure also have
explanatory power. Generally we face a combination of robustness and amenability to
administrative policy reforms. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1956/2464 |
| ISSN: | 1503-0946 (Print ISSN) |
| Appears in Collections: | Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies - Working Papers
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