Projektansvarlig: R.A.W. Rhodes, University of Newcastle og Institut for Statskundskab, Københavns Universitet
Øvrige projektdeltagere: Mark Bevir, University of Newcastle og Torben Beck Jørgensen, Institut for Statskundskab, Københavns Universitet
Projektperiode: 1. juni 1999 - 31. december 2003
Kort projektbeskrivelse:
This project focuses on changing patterns of governance in Australia, Britain,
Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the USA. It uses historical
narratives to analyse how governmental traditions both interpret the changes and evolve in
response to the dilemmas posed by public sector reforms. A governmental tradition is a set
of beliefs about the institutions and history of government. The project covers the major
European traditions: Anglo-Saxon (no state) tradition; the Germanic (organicist)
tradition; the French (Napoleonic or Jacobin) tradition; and the Scandinavian tradition
which mixes the Anglo-Saxon and Germanic. For example, the Anglo-Saxon governmental
tradition interprets public sector reform and governance differently to the participation
tradition of Denmark, leading to different aims, measures and outcomes. Public sector
reform in Denmark will, therefore, be placed in both historical and comparative context
and the project will seek to show that an approach rooted in history and philosophy can
make an important contribution to understanding contemporary problems.