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100			_aChristensen, Tom
245			_aLiving in the past? Change and continuity in the Norwegian central civil service
260			_c2009
300			_ap.951-61.
362			_aSep-Oct
520			_aIn this article, the authors describe the changes that have taken place in the Norwegian civil service over the past 30 years, focusing on demographic changes in education and gender and on changes in civil servants' tasks, attitudes, and contact patterns. The changes are analyzed using tenure, structural, and demographic perspectives. The unique empirical database is provided by surveys conducted every 10 years of civil servants in the ministries since 1976. The main empirical findings are that there has been a combination of robustness and change. The findings show little support for the generational version of a tenure perspective, meaning that civil servants are not living in the past. The structural perspective, illustrated by the importance of formal position, best explains the variations in civil servants' contact patterns and attitudes, followed by the career version of a tenure perspective. Demography, as represented by different educational backgrounds and gender, also has an effect. - Reproduced.
650			_aCivil service
700			_aLaegreid, Per
773			_aPublic Administration Review
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