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  • Understanding Place-Based Policy Barriers: Local Government Perspectives on External Rankings in Sweden's Disadvantaged Areas

    Josefina Syssner, Gissur Erlingsson
    41-59
    2025-06-23
  • How Municipalities Can Enhance Citizen Participation? – Exploring the Views of Participants and Non-Participants

    Anni Jäntti, Kaisa Kurkela
    23-42
    2021-03-15
  • Exploring the Acceptance of the Public Consumer in Scandinavian Governance: An Essay About Choice as Both a Right and an Obligation

    Tom S. Karlsson
    1-15
    2024-12-16
  • Knowledge, Influence and Accountability: A Study of Political‒Administrative Relations and Civil Servant Influence on Two Rural Swedish Citizen Dialogues

    Pontus Lund
    1-20
    2024-09-18
  • Investigating Effects of Co-creation on Outcomes of Public Service Innovation – A Comparative Analysis at the National and Local Government Level in Norway

    Stefanie Gesierich
    22-38
    2023-06-15
  • Intended Involvement – How Public Organizations Struggle to Become Co-producers of New Public Values

    Magnus Hoppe, Mattias Berglund, Jacob Annerfors, Victoria Bodén, Emma Mossberg, Malin Sturk, Åsa Sundgren Häggberg, Jonas Welander
    78-98
    2024-03-15
  • The Value of Public Engagement: Do Citizens’ Preferences Really Matter?

    Mikko Värttö
    23-41
    2021-06-15
  • Agencies and transparency in Norwegian local government

    Harald Torsteinsen, Hilde Bjørnå
    5-25
    2012-03-15
  • Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector – New Perspectives on the Role of Citizens?

    Annika Agger, Dorthe Hedensted Lund
    17-37
    2017-09-15
  • Formal institutions versus informal decision-making On parties, delegation and accountability in local government

    Colin Copus, Gissur Ó. Erlingsson
    51-69
    2013-03-15
  • A Democracy of Scale Size and Representative Democracy in Swedish Local Government

    David Karlsson
    7-28
    2013-03-15
  • Ethical Tensions in Municipality Management

    Stefan Tengblad, Margareta Oudhuis
    58-75
    2024-06-14
  • The Role of Citizens’ Suggestions in a Policy Process – A Case Study of Long Power Outages in Finland

    Markku Kinnunen
    83-110
    2019-12-13
  • User Choice – Blessing or Curse? Exploring Democratic Participation in Swedish and Norwegian Local Governments

    Asbjørn Røiseland
    27-51
    2016-12-15
  • A Rapid Feedback App: Possibilities and Pitfalls for Extended Democracy

    Mette Sønderskov, Anne Tortzen, Ulla Higdem
    39-56
    2023-06-15
  • Participation or Satisfaction? Examining Determinant of Trust in Local Government

    Annelin Gustavsen, Jon Pierre, Asbjørn Røiseland
    3-16
    2017-09-15
  • Why Digitalization is NOT on the Local Political Agenda: Findings From Danish Local Governments

    Kenneth Kristensen
    52-68
    2023-12-15
  • Public or Private – Does It Matter? How School Leaders in Public and Private Schools Perceive Their Roles

    Jenny Madestam, Göran Sundström, Göran Bergström
    129-152
    2018-09-15
  • Innovation policy for welfare services in a Swedish context

    Thomas Wihlman, Hélène Sandmark, Magnus Hoppe
    27-48
    2012-12-15
  • Assessing the Democratic Qualities of Programmes and Projects A Case from Finnish Urban Policy

    Kanerva Kuokkanen
    127-146
    2013-06-15
  • Adapting Accountability and Emerging Challenges: Contracting-Out in the Transport Sector in Switzerland, Norway and Sweden

    Eva Lieberherr, Lisa Hansson, Merethe Dotterud Leiren, Jonas Schmid
    57-77
    2019-06-15
  • National Minorities’ Inclusion and Representation in Local Government Policy-Making in Latvia: A Case Study of Riga Municipality

    Sigita Struberga, Aleksandra Kjakste
    53-71
    2018-03-15
  • Broadening Democratic Participation? An exploratory study of e-democracy in 188 Finnish municipalities

    Henrik Serup Christensen
    3-21
    2013-09-15
  • They Talk the Talk – But Do They Walk the Walk?

    Gissur Ó Erlingsson, Emanuel Wittberg
    3-20
    2018-12-15
  • A Municipal Service Center – For What and For Whom? Understanding the political nature of public administration reform

    Ann-Catrin Kristianssen, Jan Olsson
    33-54
    2016-09-15
  • The Territorial Embeddedness of Novel Labour Integration Policy: Something Old, Something New and Something Borrowed

    Patrik Zapata, María José Zapata Campos
    1-21
    2023-06-15
  • Municipal Social Innovation in a Rural Region

    Malin Lindberg, Mikael Sturk, Julia Zeidlitz
    51-69
    2020-12-15
  • The Co-creation Paradox: Small Towns and the Promise and Limits of Collaborative Governance for Low-Carbon, Sustainable Futures

    Trond Vedeld
    45-70
    2022-09-15
  • Crises Management as Strategic Coping

    Kurt Klaudi Klausen
    25-42
    2024-03-15
  • The Kainuu Regional Experiment: Deliberate and unintended effects of scaling local government tasks to the regional level

    Arto Haveri, Jenni Airaksinen, Anni Jäntti
    29-47
    2015-12-15
  • The Scandinavian Regional Model: Accounting for the shift from convergence to divergence

    Jacob Torfing, Anders Lidström, Asbjørn Røiseland
    7-28
    2015-12-15
  • After the Merger: Do Citizens Want Democratic Innovations?

    Krister Lundell, Maija Karjalainen, Henrik Serup Christensen
    3-31
    2016-09-15
  • Norwegian municipalities and reputation building – Agents, agendas, coalitions and outcomes

    Hilde Bjørnå
    39-58
    2016-06-15
  • Negotiating Space in Confined Places – Co-Production of Public Services with Unwilling Users

    Therese Reitan
    61-81
    2019-12-13
  • What Shapes National Responses to EU Public Procurement Policy? The Case of Health and Social Services in Norway, Germany and England

    Signe Bock Segaard, Nadia Brookes, Joachim Benedikt Pahl
    25-48
    2020-03-15
  • When Public Officers Take the Lead in Collaborative Governance

    Anna Zachrisson, Therese Bjärstig, Katarina Eckerberg
    21-44
    2018-12-15
  • Keeping the Discussion Among Civil Servants Alive: 'Platform of Values' as an Emerging Genre Within the Public Sector in Sweden

    Catharina Nyström Höög, Anders Björkvall
    17-38
    2018-09-15
  • Special Issue Introduction: Boundary Spanning in the Age of Collaborative Governance – Insights From Nordic Local Governments

    Andrej Christian Lindholst, Dag Olaf Torjesen
    1-10
    2024-03-15
  • Making Sense of Competing Expectations – Paradoxes in Strategic Spatial Planning

    Lisa Källström, Elin Smith
    1-20
    2023-12-15
  • Taking Deliberation to the Streets: Reflections on Deliberative Walks

    Harri Raisio, Peter Ehrström
    27-51
    2017-12-15
  • Call for Papers: The New Landscape of Public Administration - Trends, Challenges, and Future Pathways

    Johan Berlin, Ylva Norén Bretzer, Björn Brorström, Cemil Eren Fırtın, Vicki Johansson, Patrik Zapata
    2025-03-26
  • Intra-Organisational Trust and Home Care Services: A Study of the Process of Implementing Trust Based Practices in Municipal Eldercare in Sweden

    Magdalena Elmersjö, Elisabeth Sundin
    3-21
    2021-06-15
  • The Sustainability Walk – Combining Nudging and Pragmatism to Facilitate Collective Action and Reflection

    Martin Westin, Sofie Joosse, Fanny Möckel, Joakim Lindmarker, Robert Österbergh
    40-57
    2024-06-14
  • On the Democracy and Relevance of Governance Networks The case of Ostrobothnia, Finland

    Kenneth Nordberg
    23-48
    2014-06-15
  • Multiplicities of Knowledge and Learning: Exploring the Codes of Knowing in Healthcare Governance

    Helena Lagerlöf
    54-72
    2024-12-16
  • Boundary Spanning in Cross-Sector Collaboration: Sensemaking and Framing in a Civil Society Public Partnership Beyond the Crossroads

    Lena Högberg
    60-77
    2024-03-15
  • Privatization and Coercive Isomorphic Pressure in Norwegian Early Childhood Education and Care (1987-2020)

    Anne Sigrid Haugset
    108-124
    2023-09-15
  • We Need to Talk About Knowledge! Rethinking Management and Evidence-Based Practice in Welfare

    Isabella Pistone, Thomas Andersson, Morten Sager
    37-56
    2023-09-15
  • Democratic Values in Evaluation Systems – A Circle That Can Be Squared?

    Malin Benerdal, Magnus Larsson
    63-83
    2021-12-15
  • Benefit Fraud and Policy Alienation Among Civil Servants

    Lene Mosegaard Søbjerg
    109-128
    2018-09-15
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Employee Engagement in Swedish Public Sector Organizations: The Impact of Organizational and Social Factors on Employee Net Promoter Scores
 
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