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

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)

Christensen, Tom, and Per Lægreid. 2016. "A Transformative Perspective." In Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform, edited by Steven Van de Walle and Sandra Groeneveld, 27-43. New York: Routledge. (17 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)

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. 2007. "Convergence or Divergence: What has been Happening in Europe?" In New Public Management in Europe: Adaptation and Alternatives, edited by Christopher Pollitt, Sandra van Thiel and Vincent Homburg, 10-25. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (16 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)

Van de Walle, Steven. 2016. "Reforming Organizational Structures." In Theory and Practice of Public Sector Reform, edited by Steven Van de Walle and Sandra Groeneveld, 131-143. New York: Routledge. (13 pages)

Online articles

Bach, Tobias. 2014. "The autonomy of government agencies in Germany and Norway: explaining variation in management autonomy across countries and agencies."  International Review of Administrative Sciences 80 (2):341–361. doi: 10.1177/0020852313514527. (21 pages)

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. 2007a. "The Whole-of-Government Approach to Public Sector Reform."  Public Administration Review 67 (6):1059–1066. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2007.00797.x. (8 pages)

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

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)

Hartlapp, Miriam, Julia Metz, and Christian Rauh. 2013. "Linking Agenda Setting to Coordination Structures: Bureaucratic Politics inside the European Commission."  Journal of European Integration 35 (4):425-441. doi: 10.1080/07036337.2012.703663. (17 pages)

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. 2002. "Control, bargains, and cheating: the politics of public-service reform."  Journal of public administration research and theory 12 (3):309-332. (24 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)

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)

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, Johan P. 2006. "Maybe It Is Time to Rediscover Bureaucracy."  Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 16 (1):1–34. (34 pages)

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)

Talbot, Colin, and Carole Johnson. 2007. "Seasonal Cycles in Public Management: Disaggregation and Re-aggregation."  Public Money & Management 27 (1):53-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2007.00555.x. (6 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)

Whitford, Andrew B. 2012. "Strategy, structure, and policy dynamics." In The SAGE Handbook of Public Administration, edited by Jon Pierre and B. Guy Peters, 392-402. Los Angeles: Sage. (online) (11 pages)

Total page number: 843

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.