000			01741nam a22001457a 4500
999			_c524345 _d524345
008			231110b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
100			_aTrondal, Jarle _945940
245			_a“Let's organize”: The organizational basis for stable public governance
260			_aPublic Administration: An International Quarterly
300			_a10(1), Mar, 2023: p.201-220
520			_aThis study carries two distinct contributions to extant literature. Theoretically, it introduces an organizational approach to the study of public governance. Empirically, it demonstrates how the organizational architecture of government represents a stable and systemic capacity for public governance across time. The study establishes how stability serves as an enduring feature of public governance and how this is anchored in the organizational architecture of government systems. Moreover, structured flexibility is illustrated by how the civil service adapts to both international organizations and societal stakeholders. Theorizing the organizational dimension of public governance, this study also introduces a design tool that may be useful for deliberately (re)structuring public governance. Empirically, these arguments are probed by a sizable dataset with 13,173 observations across 40 years, consisting of nine surveys of civil servants at ministry and agency levels. The data enables a long-term perspective on government civil servants over nearly half a century, thus allowing for a comprehensive study of the organizational basis for public governance. – Reproduced https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padm.12858
773			_aPublic Administration: An International Quarterly
906			_aPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
942			_cAR