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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Christensen, Tom |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Transforming administrative policy |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2002 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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p.153-78. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Administrative policies and practices may evolve and change slowly and incrementally or they may be transformed intentionally. Intentional efforts to change administrative policy by transforming the structure, processes, or personnel of public sector organizations define an active administrative policy. Ideally, an active administrative policy takes as given that the organizational form to be used is open to choice, that administrative goals are clear, that a tight coupling exists between ends and means, that different organizational forms have different effects, and that there are criteria that may be used to assess those effects. This article focuses on the fulfilment of these preconditions in the three national contexts - Norway, Sweden and the United States of America - in order to determine the relevance of a transformative perspective for understanding the process of administrative change. We examine what impact constraints like polity features, historical-institutional traditions and external pressure, particularly through popular international administrative doctrines like New Public Management ideas and financial crises, have on the possibilities to enhance an active national administrative policy. - Reproduced. |
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Public administration |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Wise, Lois |
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Laegrid, Per |
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Public Administration |
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