Peter Bogason
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Bogason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Bogason |
| SIGNATURE | BOGASON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Making Public Administration Teaching and Theory Relevant
The academic field of Public Administration is quite diverse in Europe, ranging from applications of basic public law on the one hand to analyses of the hollow state on the other (where it is difficult to find any clear-cut public organisation). Nonetheless, in the light of societal changes towards late modernity, post-modern conditions and globalisation, there are some common challenges that sooner or later may knock at the door of all universit…
Public Administration under Postmodern Conditions
The Democratic Prospects of Network Governance
This article considers the democratic implications of the shift toward policy making and implementation through networks, integrating articles presented at a 2003 conference on democratic network governance. The authors argue that the effect of increased cross-sectoral and civil society involvement in governing has been to stretch liberal democratic processes to comprise greater numbers of actors involved in lateral network relationships. Althoug…
Pragmatic, Extra-Formal Democracy
Based on trends in local political participation, we wish to develop the notion of extra-formal democracy. Extra-formal democracy-democratic practices that exist outside the formalisms of electoral processes-links citizens with one another. Citizens collaborate with, or contest one another in direct, robust ways. Representative democracy, as a passive and indirect expression of desire, is not energizing in the same way. Despite its attractions in…
Annual Report 2000
Postmodernism and American Public Administration in the 1990s
The 1990s debate on postmodernism as a metatheoretical basis for American public administration is reviewed based on its progress over time. Important themes in the debates are social constructivism and anti-foundationalism; deconstruction and narrative and linguistic analysis; pragmatism; and quantum theory. Considerable differences exist between the participants, and strictly speaking, there are rather few true postmodernists, but there is a la…
Dialogue: Knowledge and Research
In September 1999 I presented a paper at the American Political Science Association meetings that drew both the attention and ire of my colleagues (I believe it was Curt Ventriss who said reading it was a vein-popping experience). It was explicitly a contentious paper, and in hindsight the argument took too many liberties with the literature I was critiquing. Were I revising the paper for publication today, several of my interpretations would be …
Communications: Annual Report 1999
When the Royal Institute of Public Administration (RIPA) owned Public Adminis‐tration, the editors always reported annually on the journal’s fortunes. The practice lapsed when the RIPA went into receivership. Now, with the launch of the journal as a European journal of public administration, we thought it was a good idea to reintroduce an annual report covering the journal’s work in the previous year. It will provide an opportunity to air problem…
Public Administration and Postmodern Conditions: Some American Pointers to Research after the Year 2000
A number of recent more or less postmodern publications in American Public Administration are presented under four headings which are not mutually exclusive: antiloundationalism, discourse analysis, pragmatism and New Quantum Theory. Three themes for future research are identified: the public interest, citizen participation and public employees as intermediaries. These themes will be addressed in and after the year 2000. The morepostmodern values…
Introduction: Networks in Public Administration
In the introductory article to the special issue on Comparing Networks, the editors discuss the meaning of the concept of networks in relation to other recent conceptual developments in public administration such as (neo)institutional and (neo)managerial analysis. They trace the broadly understood historical development of network analysis back to the late 1960s and early 1970s and highlight some important factors in its development up to the pre…
Changes in the Scandinavian Model. From Bureaucratic Command to Interorganizational Negotiation
Scandinavian local government is increasingly changing its organizational pattern away from the principles of local centralized bureaucratic control that were held sacred after the reforms of the 1960s and 1970s ‐ reforms that made local government the building block for the welfare ‘state’. Organizational fragmentation is taking place, making room for both new managerial styles similar to those of the New Public Management, featuring contracting…
The fragmentation of local government in Scandinavia
Over 10 to 15 years, an organizational fragmentation of Scandinavian local government has come about by the introduction of neighbourhood councils, user‐governed public service institutions, contracting out of services and experimental, particularized state grants to the localities. Consequently, users come into focus, territorial democracy is challenged, and new forms of inter‐governmental relations abound. This calls for alternatives to the tra…
Strong or Weak State? The Case of Danish Agricultural Export Policy, 1849-1906
Recently Amanda R. Tillotson argued in an article in Comparative Politics' that Danish development towards modernization can be explained in terms of a theory focusing on role of the central government as an active participant in process, a participant that sought to advance relatively consistent core goals with constraints imposed by changing structure of municipal institutions and by shifting division of political and economic power among natio…
Control for whom? Recent advances in research on governmental guidance and control
Various aspects of the concept of ‘control’are discussed in order to clarify some ambiguities, and illustrated using research on regulation in Denmark, West Germany and the USA. An increasing interest in the role of values in the process of control is found in recent research, and is contended that future research in this field should be based on ‘bottom‐up’rather than ‘top‐down’approaches, because the latter prevent the analyst from grasping the…
The Democratic Prospects of Network Governance
This article considers the democratic implications of the shift toward policy making and implementation through networks, integrating articles presented at a 2003 conference on democratic network governance. The authors argue that the effect of increased cross-sectoral and civil society involvement in governing has been to stretch liberal democratic processes to comprise greater numbers of actors involved in lateral network relationships. Althoug…
Introduction: Networks in Public Administration
In the introductory article to the special issue on Comparing Networks, the editors discuss the meaning of the concept of networks in relation to other recent conceptual developments in public administration such as (neo)institutional and (neo)managerial analysis. They trace the broadly understood historical development of network analysis back to the late 1960s and early 1970s and highlight some important factors in its development up to the pre…
Postmodernism and American Public Administration in the 1990s
The 1990s debate on postmodernism as a metatheoretical basis for American public administration is reviewed based on its progress over time. Important themes in the debates are social constructivism and anti-foundationalism; deconstruction and narrative and linguistic analysis; pragmatism; and quantum theory. Considerable differences exist between the participants, and strictly speaking, there are rather few true postmodernists, but there is a la…
The fragmentation of local government in Scandinavia
Over 10 to 15 years, an organizational fragmentation of Scandinavian local government has come about by the introduction of neighbourhood councils, user‐governed public service institutions, contracting out of services and experimental, particularized state grants to the localities. Consequently, users come into focus, territorial democracy is challenged, and new forms of inter‐governmental relations abound. This calls for alternatives to the tra…
Changes in the Scandinavian Model. From Bureaucratic Command to Interorganizational Negotiation
Scandinavian local government is increasingly changing its organizational pattern away from the principles of local centralized bureaucratic control that were held sacred after the reforms of the 1960s and 1970s ‐ reforms that made local government the building block for the welfare ‘state’. Organizational fragmentation is taking place, making room for both new managerial styles similar to those of the New Public Management, featuring contracting…
Pragmatic, Extra-Formal Democracy
Based on trends in local political participation, we wish to develop the notion of extra-formal democracy. Extra-formal democracy-democratic practices that exist outside the formalisms of electoral processes-links citizens with one another. Citizens collaborate with, or contest one another in direct, robust ways. Representative democracy, as a passive and indirect expression of desire, is not energizing in the same way. Despite its attractions in…
Control for whom? Recent advances in research on governmental guidance and control
Various aspects of the concept of ‘control’are discussed in order to clarify some ambiguities, and illustrated using research on regulation in Denmark, West Germany and the USA. An increasing interest in the role of values in the process of control is found in recent research, and is contended that future research in this field should be based on ‘bottom‐up’rather than ‘top‐down’approaches, because the latter prevent the analyst from grasping the…
Making Public Administration Teaching and Theory Relevant
The academic field of Public Administration is quite diverse in Europe, ranging from applications of basic public law on the one hand to analyses of the hollow state on the other (where it is difficult to find any clear-cut public organisation). Nonetheless, in the light of societal changes towards late modernity, post-modern conditions and globalisation, there are some common challenges that sooner or later may knock at the door of all universit…
Public Administration and Postmodern Conditions: Some American Pointers to Research after the Year 2000
A number of recent more or less postmodern publications in American Public Administration are presented under four headings which are not mutually exclusive: antiloundationalism, discourse analysis, pragmatism and New Quantum Theory. Three themes for future research are identified: the public interest, citizen participation and public employees as intermediaries. These themes will be addressed in and after the year 2000. The morepostmodern values…
Public Administration under Postmodern Conditions
Dialogue: Knowledge and Research
In September 1999 I presented a paper at the American Political Science Association meetings that drew both the attention and ire of my colleagues (I believe it was Curt Ventriss who said reading it was a vein-popping experience). It was explicitly a contentious paper, and in hindsight the argument took too many liberties with the literature I was critiquing. Were I revising the paper for publication today, several of my interpretations would be …
Strong or Weak State? The Case of Danish Agricultural Export Policy, 1849-1906
Recently Amanda R. Tillotson argued in an article in Comparative Politics' that Danish development towards modernization can be explained in terms of a theory focusing on role of the central government as an active participant in process, a participant that sought to advance relatively consistent core goals with constraints imposed by changing structure of municipal institutions and by shifting division of political and economic power among natio…
Control for whom? Recent advances in research on governmental guidance and control
Various aspects of the concept of ‘control’are discussed in order to clarify some ambiguities, and illustrated using research on regulation in Denmark, West Germany and the USA. An increasing interest in the role of values in the process of control is found in recent research, and is contended that future research in this field should be based on ‘bottom‐up’rather than ‘top‐down’approaches, because the latter prevent the analyst from grasping the…
Strong or Weak State? The Case of Danish Agricultural Export Policy, 1849-1906
Recently Amanda R. Tillotson argued in an article in Comparative Politics' that Danish development towards modernization can be explained in terms of a theory focusing on role of the central government as an active participant in process, a participant that sought to advance relatively consistent core goals with constraints imposed by changing structure of municipal institutions and by shifting division of political and economic power among natio…
The fragmentation of local government in Scandinavia
Over 10 to 15 years, an organizational fragmentation of Scandinavian local government has come about by the introduction of neighbourhood councils, user‐governed public service institutions, contracting out of services and experimental, particularized state grants to the localities. Consequently, users come into focus, territorial democracy is challenged, and new forms of inter‐governmental relations abound. This calls for alternatives to the tra…
Introduction: Networks in Public Administration
In the introductory article to the special issue on Comparing Networks, the editors discuss the meaning of the concept of networks in relation to other recent conceptual developments in public administration such as (neo)institutional and (neo)managerial analysis. They trace the broadly understood historical development of network analysis back to the late 1960s and early 1970s and highlight some important factors in its development up to the pre…
Changes in the Scandinavian Model. From Bureaucratic Command to Interorganizational Negotiation
Scandinavian local government is increasingly changing its organizational pattern away from the principles of local centralized bureaucratic control that were held sacred after the reforms of the 1960s and 1970s ‐ reforms that made local government the building block for the welfare ‘state’. Organizational fragmentation is taking place, making room for both new managerial styles similar to those of the New Public Management, featuring contracting…
Public Administration and Postmodern Conditions: Some American Pointers to Research after the Year 2000
A number of recent more or less postmodern publications in American Public Administration are presented under four headings which are not mutually exclusive: antiloundationalism, discourse analysis, pragmatism and New Quantum Theory. Three themes for future research are identified: the public interest, citizen participation and public employees as intermediaries. These themes will be addressed in and after the year 2000. The morepostmodern values…
Dialogue: Knowledge and Research
In September 1999 I presented a paper at the American Political Science Association meetings that drew both the attention and ire of my colleagues (I believe it was Curt Ventriss who said reading it was a vein-popping experience). It was explicitly a contentious paper, and in hindsight the argument took too many liberties with the literature I was critiquing. Were I revising the paper for publication today, several of my interpretations would be …
Communications: Annual Report 1999
When the Royal Institute of Public Administration (RIPA) owned Public Adminis‐tration, the editors always reported annually on the journal’s fortunes. The practice lapsed when the RIPA went into receivership. Now, with the launch of the journal as a European journal of public administration, we thought it was a good idea to reintroduce an annual report covering the journal’s work in the previous year. It will provide an opportunity to air problem…
Annual Report 2000
Postmodernism and American Public Administration in the 1990s
The 1990s debate on postmodernism as a metatheoretical basis for American public administration is reviewed based on its progress over time. Important themes in the debates are social constructivism and anti-foundationalism; deconstruction and narrative and linguistic analysis; pragmatism; and quantum theory. Considerable differences exist between the participants, and strictly speaking, there are rather few true postmodernists, but there is a la…
Pragmatic, Extra-Formal Democracy
Based on trends in local political participation, we wish to develop the notion of extra-formal democracy. Extra-formal democracy-democratic practices that exist outside the formalisms of electoral processes-links citizens with one another. Citizens collaborate with, or contest one another in direct, robust ways. Representative democracy, as a passive and indirect expression of desire, is not energizing in the same way. Despite its attractions in…
The Democratic Prospects of Network Governance
This article considers the democratic implications of the shift toward policy making and implementation through networks, integrating articles presented at a 2003 conference on democratic network governance. The authors argue that the effect of increased cross-sectoral and civil society involvement in governing has been to stretch liberal democratic processes to comprise greater numbers of actors involved in lateral network relationships. Althoug…
Making Public Administration Teaching and Theory Relevant
The academic field of Public Administration is quite diverse in Europe, ranging from applications of basic public law on the one hand to analyses of the hollow state on the other (where it is difficult to find any clear-cut public organisation). Nonetheless, in the light of societal changes towards late modernity, post-modern conditions and globalisation, there are some common challenges that sooner or later may knock at the door of all universit…
Public Administration under Postmodern Conditions
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