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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Governing the embedded state' integrates governance theory with organization theory and examines how states address social complexity and international embeddedness. Drawing upon extensive empirical research on the Swedish government system, this volume describes a strategy of governance based in a metagovernance model of steering by designing institutional structures. This strategy is supplemented by micro-steering of administrative structures within the path dependencies put in place through metagovernance. Both of these strategies of steering rely on subtle methods of providing political guidance to the public service where norms of loyalty to the government characterize the relationship between politicians and civil servants. By drawing upon this research, the volume will explain how recent developments such as globalization, Europeanization, the expansion of managerial ideas, and the fragmentation of states, have influenced the state's capacity to govern. The result is an account of contemporary governance which shows the societal constraints on government but also the significance of close interaction and cooperation between the political leadership and the senior civil servants in addressing those constraints. |
| Contents |
1. Governing the Embedded State -- The Argument in Brief -- Complexities of Governing -- From Government to Governance -- Stability and Change -- Integrating Governance Theories and Organization Theories -- Sweden as a Case -- Empirical Data -- Outline of the Book -- 2. The Organizational Dimension of Governing -- Dualism -- the Swedish Administrative Model -- States as Organizations -- Challenges to Governing -- Conclusions -- 3. Governing by Organizing -- The Importance of "Setting the Stage" -- Ways of Organizing -- Creating Formal Organizations -- Positioning -- Fostering Competition -- Distancing -- Storytelling -- Conclusions -- 4. Governing by Microsteering -- Anticipation -- Inviting Authority -- Re-politicization -- Modification -- Conclusions -- 5. Governing and Administrative Reform -- Administrative Reform -- Administrative Reform and Governing -- Management by Results -- Supportive Reforms -- Learning from Administrative Reforms -- Conclusions -- 6. Governing Social Complexity: Metagovernance and Microsteering -- Summarizing the Main Empirical Findings -- Trouble in Paradise? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public administration -- Research -- Sweden.
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Public administration -- Research. |
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Sweden. |
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Political science -- Social aspects -- Research.
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Political science -- Social aspects. |
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Research. |
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Political science. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Pierre, Jon, author.
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Sundström, Göran, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pierre, John. Governing the embedded state. The organizational dimension of governance 9780199684168 (OCoLC)884242526 |
| ISBN |
9780191507106 (electronic book) |
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0191507105 (electronic book) |
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9780191764714 |
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019176471X |
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1336015543 |
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9781336015548 |
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9780199684168 |
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0199684162 |
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