Governing the Embedded State

Governing the Embedded State by Gran Sundstrm

Governing the Embedded State integrates governance theory with organization theory and examines how states address social complexity and international embeddedness. Drawing upon extensive empirical research on the Swedish government system, this volume describes a strategy of governance based in a metagovernance model of steering by designing institutional structures. This strategy is supplemented by micro-steering of administrative structures within the path dependencies put in place through metagovernance. Both of these strategies of steering rely on subtle methods of providing political guidance to the public service where norms of loyalty to the government characterize the relationship between politicians and civil servants. By drawing upon this research, the volume will explain how recent developments such as globalization, Europeanization, the expansion of managerial ideas, and the fragmentation of states, have influenced the state's capacity to govern. The result is an account of contemporary governance which shows the societal constraints on government but also the significance of close interaction and cooperation between the political leadership and the senior civil servants in addressing those constraints.

Jon Pierre is a Research Professor in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. He is also a Professor of Public Governance at the University of Melbourne. Bengt Jacobsson is Professor in Management and Organization Theory at Södertörn University. Göran Sundström is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Stockholm.

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ISBN 10	0199684162
Titel	Governing the Embedded State
Autor	Gran Sundstrm
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2015-01-08
Seitenanzahl	176
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