Climate change, economic crises, migration, and terrorism are among the many problems that challenge public governance in modern societies. Many of these problems are spanning political and administrative units; horizontally, vertically, and both. This makes public governance particularly challenging and turbulent. Since public governance mainly takes place through public organizations, like international organizations, ministries, and regulatory agencies, this book examines what difference organizational factors make in the governance process. The volume launches a general organizational approach to public governance. It outlines key theoretical dimensions that cut across governance structures and processes horizontally as well as vertically, thus paving the way for integrating separate empirical analyses into a coherent theoretical whole. Moreover, the organizational (independent) variables outlined in this book represent classical dimensions in the organization literature that are generic in character. This allows for generalizations across time and space. The volume also examines (organizational) design implications: By building systematic knowledge on how organizational factors shape governance processes on the one hand, and how organizational factors themselves might be deliberately changed on the other, the book offers a knowledge base for organizational design.

An Organizational Approach to Public Governance: Understanding and Design

Trondal, Jarle

Egeberg, Morten

Legal Theory & Systems

Oxford University Press

This book poses two pertinent questions: If a European executive order is emerging, how can we empirically see it? And if a European executive order is emerging, how can we explain everyday decision-making processes within it? The goal of this book is to identify key institutional components of an emergent European executive order, the nucleus of which is the European Commission. The Commission, however, is increasingly supplemented by a mushrooming parallel administration of EU-level agencies and EU committees. This book provides fresh empirical survey and interview data on the everyday decision-making behavior, role perceptions, and identities among European civil servants who participate within these institutions. Secondly, this book claims and empirically substantiates that an emergent European executive order is a compound executive order balancing a limited set of key decision-making dynamics. One message of this book is that an emergent European executive order consists of a compound set of supranational, departmental, epistemic, and intergovernmental decision-making dynamics. Arguably, a compound European executive order transforms the inherent Westphalian order to the extent that intergovernmentalism is transcended and supplemented by a multidimensional mix of supranational, departmental and/or epistemic dynamics. This book also theoretically explores conditions under which these decision-making dynamics gain prevalence. It is argued that the decision-making dynamics emerging within an emergent European executive order are conditioned by the formal organization of its composite parts and by the patterns of social interaction that emerge among its civil servants. Political processes and political systems can neither be adequately understood nor explained without including the organizational dimension of executive orders.

An Emergent European Executive Order

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Words, Language & Grammar

Unpacking international organisations: The dynamics of compound bureaucracies (European Politics)

This book introduces international bureaucracy as a key field of study for public administration and also rediscovers it as an essential ingredient in the study of international organisations. To what extent, how and why do international bureaucracies challenge and supplement the inherent Westphalian intergovernmental order based on territorial sovereignty? To what extent, how and why do international bureaucracies supplement the existing international intergovernmental order with a multi-dimensional international order subjugated by a compound set of decision-making dynamics?  International bureaucracies constitute a distinct and increasingly important feature of public administration studies. However, the role of international bureaucracies has been largely neglected in most social science sub-disciplines. This book takes a first step into a third generation of international organisation (IO) studies. It will be of immense value to academics in politics and international relations as well as practitioners in public administration in domestic governments and international organizations.

Marcussen, Martin

Larsson, Torbjorn

Veggeland, Frode

Manchester University Press

Foreign & International Law

Robust Governance in Turbulent Times (Elements in Public Policy)

Business & Money

Torfing, Jacob

Ansell, Christopher

Sørensen, Eva

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Norway’s EU Experience and Lessons for the UK (Dealing with Europe)

Fossum, John Erik

Lord, Christopher

Olsen, Espen D. H.

Saltnes, Johanne Døhlie

Farstad, Fay Madeleine

Farsund, Arild Aurvåg

Leiren, Merethe Dotterud

Riddervold, Marianne

Svendsen, Øyvind

Routledge

Governing the Contemporary Administrative State: Studies on the Organizational Dimension of Politics (European Administrative Governance)

Administrative Law

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