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  • Governing a Dual Executive – Agents and Stewards in the Swedish Management Regime

    Helena Wockelberg, Shirin Ahlbäck Öberg
    1-25
    2025-06-23
  • 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
  • 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
  • Changing accountability regimes in hospital governance Denmark and Norway compared

    Haldor Byrkjeflot, Simon Neby, Karsten Vrangbæk
    3-23
    2011-12-15
  • Agencies and transparency in Norwegian local government

    Harald Torsteinsen, Hilde Bjørnå
    5-25
    2012-03-15
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    Linn Antonsson
    20-40
    2026-03-16
  • Conditions for political leadership in pluricentric Scandinavian regions

    Eva Sørensen, Anders Lidström, Gro Sandkjær Hanssen
    111-130
    2015-12-15
  • Navigating Gender Inequalities in Working Conditions: Accountable Politicians’ Perspectives on Their Work Environment Responsibility in Swedish Municipal Organizations

    Jonas Welander, Caroline Lornudd, Ulrica Schwarz, Sara Göransson
    1-17
    2025-03-17
  • Political leaders and the local constitution

    David Karlsson, Malgorzata Erikson
    3-6
    2013-03-15
  • Transforming the Nordic Welfare Regime – Tracing Friction in Introducing Welfare Technology

    Antti Hämäläinen, Joni Jaakola, Doris Lydahl, Hilde Thygesen, Kristín Bjornsdottir, Niels Christian Mossfeldt Nickelsen
    41-57
    2026-03-16
  • One Scandinavian approach to management by objectives and results?

    Mads Bøge Kristiansen
    45-70
    2016-03-15
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    Cecilia Bjursell, Charlotte Sjödahl, Joel Hedegaard
    24-36
    2023-09-15
  • Crises Management as Strategic Coping

    Kurt Klaudi Klausen
    25-42
    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
  • Not So Logical, After All – Public Managers’ Understandings of Media

    Magnus Fredriksson, Josef Pallas
    21-39
    2024-09-18
  • The Public Administration of Public Art: Situated Practices in Swedish Municipalities

    Jonathan Metzger, Catharina Gabrielsson, Eva Arnqvist, Anna Wignell, Per Hasselberg
    2026-03-11
  • Contested, Impractical, and Easily Forgotten? Analysing National-Level Decision-Makers’ Interpretations of Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic Through a Qualitative Follow-up Study

    Kristiina Janhonen, Marjaana Viita-aho, Henna Paananen, Laura Kihlström, Soila Karreinen, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen
    93-109
    2025-12-19
  • Ethical Tensions in Municipality Management

    Stefan Tengblad, Margareta Oudhuis
    58-75
    2024-06-14
  • Data Transparency as a Tool for Accountability: Norwegian Municipalities’ Approaches to Elderly Care Information, and Broader Implications

    Fabrizio Palumbo, Roy Krøvel
    2026-03-27
  • Resident Participation in an Era of Societal Self- Organisation: The Public Administrative Response in Tøyen

    Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud, Espen Ophaug
    65-87
    2018-06-15
  • Policy Implementation in Military Organizations: The Impact of the Key Characteristics of Military Administration

    Karina Mayland
    16-34
    2024-12-16
  • Challenges in Changing Healthcare Resource Allocation – Separation, Integration, or Diversification of Institutional Logics

    Villy Angelsen, Solrun Holm
    2026-03-26
  • The Contingency of Leadership – A Case Study of Municipal Trajectory Management

    Ole Johan Andersen
    29-44
    2022-03-15
  • Collaborating for Competition? Unpacking Ambiguities and Paradoxes Across the Academic Profession

    Romulo Pinheiro, Kirsi Pulkkinen
    53-73
    2023-03-15
  • Co-Creation in Urban Governance: From Inclusion to Innovation

    Dorthe Hedensted Lund
    3-17
    2018-06-15
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