Administrative policies and practices may evolve and change slowly and incrementally or they may be transformed intentionally. Intentional efforts to change administrative policy by transforming the structure, processes, or personnel of public sector organizations define an active administrative...

This article focuses on civil servants in the central Norwegian civil service whose main tasks are budgeting, supervision and accounting. The main research questions are: What is their typical demographic profile? How has their demographic profile changed over time? What are the effects of...

Combining organisation theory with public management, this book analyses key aspects of the public sector such as goals and values, management and leadership, reform and changes, effects and implications