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100 1 _aCHRISTENSEN, Jorgen Gronnegard
_939780
245 1 0 _aInterpreting administrative change :
_bbureaucratic self-interest and institutional inheritance in government
260 _aMalden :
_bWiley-Blackwell,
_cApril 1997
520 3 _aBetween 1946 and 1995, Danish central government had been subject to numerous reorganization initiatives. Based on the assumption of self]interest motivated and risk]averse bureaucrats, these initiatives are analyzed in a long]term historical perspective. It is argued that civil servants both feel a strong incentive to and have good chances of defending the existing organization. This creates a historical bias in favor of whatever organizations were created in the past. Still, the mutual dependence between political executives and their civil servants opens up for bargaining dynamics allowing for mostly incremental change. While ideology has been unimportant in the development of central government organization, broadly shared ideas about reform may account for some instances of radical reform, consistently opposed by Danish civil servants.
773 0 8 _tGovernance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration
_g10, 2, p. 143-174
_dMalden : Wiley-Blackwell, April 1997
_xISSN 09521895
_w
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_cDaiane
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_b1713^b
_cCarolina
999 _aConvertido do Formato PHL
_bPHL2MARC21 1.1
_c32741
_d32741
041 _aeng