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100			_aGron, C.H. Opstrup, N. Salomonsen, H.H. and Villadsen, A.R. _950387
245			_aIn unsteady waters: How mayors and chief administrative officers make sense of a public service bargain in disequilibrium
260			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
300			_a90(4), Dec, 2024: p.723-740
520			_aPublic service bargains (PSBs) have become a central heuristic to understand the relationship between politicians and senior bureaucrats. In this article, we add to the existing literature by exploring how both politicians and senior bureaucrats make sense of a PSB in disequilibrium. Based on individual and focus group interviews and six case studies of breakdown in the bargain, we find that bargains may be unstable due to both changing circumstances and differences in interpretations. We add to previous research by demonstrating how the differences in interpretations may manifest themselves along two dimensions, that is, in the balance between the types of competences and rewards that should be included in the bargain as perceived by politicians and senior civil servants, as well as how the competences and rewards agreed upon are interpreted.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00208523231221461
650			_aPublic service bargain, disequilrium, Politicians, Senior civil servants. _950388
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
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