Bureaucratic dilemmas: Civil servants between political responsiveness and normative constraints

JG Christensen, N Opstrup - Governance, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction between political executives and civil servants rests on a delicate balance
between political responsiveness and the duty of civil servants and ministers to respect legal …

Obeying Ministers or Laws?: A Study of Danish Civil Servant's Responses to Illegal Requests

CS Bischoff - Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 2018 - forskning.ruc.dk
It is part of a civil servants job description to be responsive to its political leadership as well
as to uphold legal norms. But what happens when the two types of demands conflict? When …

Laster og dyder i embedsværk og forskning: en metodekritisk analyse af Bo Smith-udvalgets undersøgelser af embedsværkets overholdelse af regler og normer

PB Koch, CS Bischoff - Politica-Tidsskrift for politisk videnskab, 2018 - forskning.ruc.dk
Bo Smith-udvalgets konklusioner om tilstanden i det danske embedsværk har sat markante
aftryk i den offentlige debat. Konklusionerne indeholder en klar afvisning af, at der er …

Det kommunale skyggeliv

M Ibsen, N Opstrup - Politica, 2016 - tidsskrift.dk
Resumé Bo Smith-udvalget gennemførte en undersøgelse af (skandale) sager, der på
statsligt niveau havde været genstand for en formel undersøgelse siden 1980. Der var ingen …

[PDF][PDF] Bureaucratic Dilemmas

JG Christensen, N Opstrup - dpsa.dk
Effective governance in democratic societies presumes close interaction between political
executives and civil servants. This interaction rests on a delicate balance between civil …