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100			_aBogason, Peter
245			_aIntroduction: networks in public administration
260			_c1998
300			_ap.205-27
362			_aSummer
520			_aIn the introductory article to the special issue on Comparing Networks, the editors discuss the meaning of the concept of networks in relation to other recent conceptual developments in public administration such as (neo)institutional and (neo)managerial analysis. They trace the broadly understood historical development of network analysis back to the late 1960s and early 1970s and highlight some important factors in its development up to the present-day demands placed on public administration by both globalization and decentralization. The result is organizational fragmentation. Network analysis makes it clear that people working in government and administration will have to learn to think of organization as an external, not internal activity. The prospect is that hierarchical control will be replaced by continuing processes of bargaining among interested parties within most fields of public administration. - Reproduced
650			_aPublic administration
700			_aToonen, Theo A.J.
773			_aPublic Administration
909			_a38759
999			_c38759 _d38759