Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books and compendiums can be bought in Akademika bookstore at Blindern campus. You will need a valid semester card to buy compendiums.

Compendium

Bach, Tobias, and Kai Wegrich. 2018. "Blind spots, biased attention, and the politics of non-coordination." In The blind spots of public bureaucracy and the politics of non-coordination, ed. T. Bach and K. Wegrich. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (in press)

Boston, Jonathan, John Martin, June Pallot, and Pat Walsh. 1996. Public Management: the New Zealand Model. Auckland: Oxford University Press. Chapter 2 (27 pages)

Bouckaert, Geert, B. Guy Peters, and Koen Verhoest. 2010. The coordination of public sector organizations: Shifting patterns of public management. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 1: The main argument – specialization without coordination is centrifugal (10 pages)

Bouckaert, Geert, B. Guy Peters, and Koen Verhoest. 2010. The coordination of public sector organizations: Shifting patterns of public management. Basingstoke, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 2: Coordination: What it is and why we should have it (20 pages)

Brunsson, Nils, and Johan P. Olsen. 1993. The reforming organization. London; New York: Routledge. Chapter 1 (14 pages)

Egeberg, Morten, Åse Gornitzka, and Jarle Trondal. 2016. "Organization Theory." In Handbook on Theories of Governance, edited by Jacob Torfing and Christopher K. Ansell, 32-45. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (14 pages)

Hood, Christopher. 2011. The Blame Game: spin, bureaucracy, and self-preservation in government. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press. (Chapter 1)

Lodge, Martin, and Kai Wegrich. 2012. Managing Regulation. Regulatory Analysis, Politics and Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 8: Regulating Infrastructure Industries (22 pages)

Pollitt, Christopher, and Geert Bouckaert. 2011. Public management reform: A comparative analysis. 3rd ed ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1: Comparative public management reform: an introduction to the key debates (30 pages)

Pollitt, Christopher, and Geert Bouckaert. 2011. Public management reform: A comparative analysis. 3rd ed ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 6: Politics and management (21 pages)

Talbot, Colin. 2004. "The Agency idea." In Unbundled Government. A critical analysis of the global trend to agencies, quangos and contractualisation, edited by Christopher Pollitt and Colin Talbot, 3-21. London, New York: Routledge. (19 pages)

Thelen, Kathleen. 2003. "How institutions evolve. Insights from comparative historical analysis." In Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences, edited by James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, 208-240. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (32 pages)

Wegrich, Kai, and Vid Štimac. 2014. "Coordination Capacity." In The Problem-solving Capacity of the Modern State, ed. M. Lodge and K. Wegrich. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Online articles

Bach, T. (2016). Administrative Autonomy of Public Organizations. In A. Farazmand (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration,

Public Policy, and Governance (pp. 1-9). Cham: Springer International Publishing. (advance online publication)

Busuioc, E. Madalina. 2016. "Friend or fore? Inter-agency cooperation, organizational reputation, and turf."  Public Administration 94 (1):40-56. doi: 10.1111/padm.12160. (17 pages)

Carpenter, Daniel P. 2010. "Institutional Strangulation: Bureaucratic Politics and Financial Reform in the Obama Administration."  Perspectives on Politics 8 (3):825-846. doi: 10.1017/S1537592710002070. (22 pages)

Christensen, Jørgen Grønnegaard. 2010. Public interest regulation reconsidered: From capture to credible commitment: Jerusalem Papers in Regulation & Governance No. 19. (34 pages)

Christensen, Tom, and Per Lægreid. 2007. "Regulatory agencies – the challenge of balancing agency autonomy and political control."  Governance 20:497-519. (23 pages)

Christensen, T., Lægreid, P., & Wise, L. R. (2002). Transforming administrative policy. Public Administration, 80(1), 153-178.

Dahlberg, Stefan, and Sören Holmberg. 2014. "Democracy and Bureaucracy: How their Quality Matters for Popular Satisfaction." West European Politics 37 (3):515-37.

Egeberg, Morten. 1995. "Bureaucrats as Public Policy-Makers and Their Self-Interests."  Journal of Theoretical Politics 7 (2):157-167. doi: 10.1177/0951692895007002003. (11 pages)

Egeberg, Morten. 2012. "How Bureaucratic Structure Matters: An Organizational Perspective." In The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration, edited by Jon Pierre and B. Guy Peters, 157-167. Los Angeles: Sage. (online) (10 pages)

Egeberg, Morten, and Jarle Trondal. 2009. "Political Leadership and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Effects of Agencification."  Governance-an International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions 22 (4):673-688. (15 pages)

Gains, Francesca, and Peter John. 2010. "What Do Bureaucrats Like Doing? Bureaucratic Preferences in Response to Institutional Reform."  Public Administration Review 70 (3):455-463. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02159.x. (9 pages)

Hammond, Thomas H. 1990. "IN DEFENCE OF LUTHER GULICK'S‘NOTES ON THE THEORY OF ORGANIZATION."  Public Administration 68 (2):143-173. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1990.tb00752.x. (30 pages)

Holmgren, M. (2018). Partisan Politics and Institutional Choice in Public Bureaucracies: Evidence from Sweden. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muy010

Hood, Christopher. 1991. "A Public Management for All Seasons?"  Public Administration 69 (1):3–19. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00779.x. (17 pages)

Hood, Christopher, and Ruth Dixon. 2016. "Not What It Said on the Tin? Reflections on Three Decades of UK Public Management Reform."  Financial Accountability & Management 32 (4):409-428. doi: 10.1111/faam.12095. (20 pages)

James, Oliver, Nicolai Petrovsky, Alice Moseley, and George A. Boyne. 2016. "The Politics of Agency Death: Ministers and the Survival of Government Agencies in a Parliamentary System."   46 (4):763-784. doi: 10.1017/S0007123414000477. (22 pages)

Jann, W. (2015). Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, and Johan P. Olsen, “A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice”. In M. Lodge, E. C. Page, & S. J. Balla (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration (pp. 300-315). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kuipers, S., Yesilkagit, K., & Carroll, B. (2018). Coming to Terms with Termination of Public Organizations. Public Organization Review, 18(2), 263-278.

Lodge, Martin, and Derek Gill. 2011. "Toward a New Era of Administrative Reform? The Myth of Post-NPM in New Zealand."  Governance 24 (1):141–166. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2010.01508.x. (26 pages)

MacCarthaigh, M. (2014). AGENCY TERMINATION IN IRELAND: CULLS AND BONFIRES, OR LIFE AFTER DEATH? Public Administration, 92(4), 1017-1037.

Majone, Giandomenico. 1997. "From the Positive to the Regulatory State: Causes and Consequences of Changes in the Mode of Governance."  Journal of Public Policy 17:139-167. (29 pages)

March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. 1983. "Organizing Political Life: What Administrative Reorganization Tells Us about Government."  American Political Science Review 77 (2):281-296. doi: 10.2307/1958916. (16 pages)

March, James G., and Johan P. Olsen. 2011. Elaborating the “New Institutionalism”, Oxford Handbooks Online. (17 pages)

Meier, Kenneth J. 2010. "Governance, Structure, and Democracy: Luther Gulick and the Future of Public Administration."  Public Adm. Rev. 70:S284-S291. (7 pages)

Mortensen, Peter B. 2016. "AGENCIFICATION AND BLAME SHIFTING: EVALUATING A NEGLECTED SIDE OF PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS."  Public Administration 94 (3):630-646. doi: 10.1111/padm.12243. (17 pages)

Olsen, J. P. (2008). The Ups and Downs of Bureaucratic Organization. Annual Review of Political Science, 11, 13–37.

Pollitt, Christopher. 2001. "Convergence: The Useful Myth."  Public Administration 79 (4):933–947. (15 pages)

Pollitt, Christopher. 2016. "Managerialism Redux?"  Financial Accountability & Management 32 (4):429-447. doi: 10.1111/faam.12094. (19 pages)

Roberts, Alasdair. 2010. "The Rise and Fall of Discipline: Economic Globalization, Administrative Reform, and the Financial Crisis."  Public Administration Review 70:s56-s63. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2010.02246.x. (8 pages)

Rothstein, Bo. 2012. "Political legitimacy for public administration." In The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration, edited by Jon Pierre and B. Guy Peters, 407-419. Los Angeles: Sage. (online) (12 pages)

Scharpf, Fritz W. 1994. "Games Real Actors Could Play: Positive and Negative Coordination in Embedded Negotiations."  Journal of Theoretical Politics 6 (1):27-53. doi: 10.1177/0951692894006001002. (27 pages)

Scott, Colin. 2000. "Accountability in the Regulatory State."  Journal of Law and Society 27:38-60. (23 pages)

Vestlund, Nina Merethe. 2015. "Changing policy focus through organizational reform? The case of the pharmaceutical unit in the European Commission."  Public Policy and Administration 30 (1):92-112. doi: 10.1177/0952076714537864. (21 pages)

Online articles:

• are available through the University Library databases.

• are limited to computers that are connected UiO's network. You can get access from home and when travelling.

• are easy to find. Tutorials and help to access journals and other restricted library Resources.