New Public Governance in the Baltic States: Flexible Administration and Rule Bending
| Autor: | Lars Johannsen, Karin Hilmer Pedersen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Flexibility (engineering)
Public Administration Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Corporate governance 05 social sciences Citizen journalism Impartiality Public administration 0506 political science ComputerSystemsOrganization_MISCELLANEOUS 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Meritocracy Business Administration (government) 050203 business & management Legitimacy media_common |
| Zdroj: | Pedersen, K H & Johannsen, L 2018, ' New Public Governance in the Baltic States: Flexible Administration and Rule Bending ', Public Performance and Management Review, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 648-667 . https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2018.1465828 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15309576.2018.1465828 |
| Popis: | The New Public Governance approach advocates a more flexible and participatory public administration as means to higher efficiency and increase legitimacy. Increasing flexibility and thereby public employees’ discretion may, however, pose a risk to equality and impartiality, core values in democratic and rule of law societies. Using a survey among Baltic public employees, this article explores this risk. We ask if public employees’ preferences for flexible rule application go hand in hand with accept of bending rules, even if it means a breach of impartiality. We find that this is the case. We also find that in contrary to what the New Public Governance approach expects, neither citizen participation nor generalized trust works as a control on rule bending. On a positive note, however, we find that control mechanisms associated with Weberian Public Administration e.g. meritocratic procedures and coordination lessens the acceptance to bend the rules. |
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