Governing the Embedded State: The Organizational Dimension of Governance
Bengt Jacobsson, Jon Pierre, and Göran Sundström
Abstract
This book enhances our understanding of how states address social complexity and international embeddedness by bringing in the organizational dimension of governance. Drawing on extensive empirical research on the Swedish core executive, the book describes a strategy of governance based on a metagovernance model of steering by designing institutional structures. This strategy is supplemented by microsteering 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 t ... More
This book enhances our understanding of how states address social complexity and international embeddedness by bringing in the organizational dimension of governance. Drawing on extensive empirical research on the Swedish core executive, the book describes a strategy of governance based on a metagovernance model of steering by designing institutional structures. This strategy is supplemented by microsteering 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. The book integrates governance theory with organization theory and places the Swedish case in a comparative context.
Keywords:
governance,
core executive,
loyalty,
metagovernance,
organization theory,
Sweden
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199684168 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684168.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Bengt Jacobsson, author
Södertörn University
Jon Pierre, author
University of Gothenburg
Göran Sundström, author
Stockholm University
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