The purpose of this essay is to describe the organization of the Swedish Animal WelfareAgency during the time it was in operation. The Swedish Animal Welfare Agency was established in 2005 by the government who saw it as necessary in order to strengthen the protection of cruelty to animals in Sweden. However, the agency was shut down already in2007 and its responsibilities as an agency was moved back to the government and the department of agriculture. During its time in operation, the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency, received much criticism, among other things because of its interpretations of the law which were seen as too focused on details and thus “bureaucratic”. In order to describe the organization of the agency the theoretical approach of this study is based on three of Bo Rothstein’s ideal administration models; the legal bureaucratic, thepolitical oriented and the user oriented model. The purpose is to see which one of these ideal administrations the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency was most like, through an organizational perspective. There will also be a comparison over time, from the establishing to the shutting down of the agency in order to see if the organization of the agency had changed over time. The method used for this paper is a qualitative text-based analysis where the central arguments concerning the organization of the agency will be highlighted and interpreted from the different criteria of the administration models. The study showed that the organization of the Swedish Animal Welfare Agency can be described as a legal bureaucratic administration. The comparison over time showed that the organization of the agency did not change, it could be described as legal bureaucratic when it was established as well as when it was shut down. This shows that the criticism of the agency of being too “bureaucratic” might be justified but the legitimacy of the agency’s organization was based on bureaucratic principles.

La thèse examine les configurations d'acteurs et d'organisations impliquées dans la régulation de l'accès au marché des médicaments en France et en Angleterre, en charge du contrôle scientifique et administratif de la fixation du prix et du remboursement de ces produits. Cette activité s'autonomise de l'appréciation clinique de leur qualité, de leur efficacité et de leur innocuité (dominant la régulation de leur approbation sur le marché) au cours des années 1980. / This thesis examines the configurations of actors and organizations involved in the regulation of the market access for drugs in France and England. Since the mid-1980s, this process has entailed the development of administrative and scientific controls over the fixing of the price and the conditions of reimbursement of these products. These controls have become autonomus from clinical appreciation of their quality, efficacity and safety that dominate approval regulation as a whole.

Sedan 2016 har en tillitsbaserad styrning implementerats i offentliga verksamheter i Sverige, vilket det inte finns mycket forskning om. Den tillitsbaserade styrningen skiljer sig mycket ifrån de tidigare styrningsformerna som präglat den offentliga sektorn. Jag har genom en kvalitativ studie ämnat att öka förståelsen för hur den tillitsbaserade styrningen fungerar med en byråkratisk logik och en marknadslogik. Min empiri är insamlad genom ostrukturerade intervjuer ifrån medarbetare på Trafikverket. Under studien har jag använt institutionell teori för att skapa en förståelse för de förutsättningar som råder för den tillitsbaserade styrningen och hur den påverkas av befintliga krav. Jag kunde ifrån min studie konstatera och dra slutsatsen att den byråkratiska logiken påverkar den tillitsbaserade styrningen. Det genom logikens krav på säkerhetsställande och efterföljande av lagar och regler, vilket enligt respondenterna begränsar möjligheterna att visa tillit, handlingsutrymme och medbestämmande som den tillitsbaserade styrningen förespråkar. Det framgick dessutom att marknadslogiken påverkar den tillitsbaserade styrningen genom logikens krav på ekonomisk effektivitet. / Since 2016, trust-based governance has been implemented in public organizations in Sweden, which there is not much research on. The trust-based governance differs greatly from the previous forms of governance that have characterized the public sector. Through a qualitative study, I have aimed to increase the understanding of how trust-based governance function with a bureaucratic logic and a market logic. My empiricism is collected through unstructured interviews from employees at the Swedish Transport Administration. During the study, I have used institutional theory to create an understanding of the prevailing prerequisites that exists for trust-based governance and how it is affected by existing demands. I could see and conclude from my study that a bureaucratic logic affects trust-based governance. This, through the logic's requirement for collateralization and compliance with laws and regulations, which according to the respondents, limits the opportunities to show confidence, room for action and co-determination as the trust-based governance advocates. It was also shown that the market logic affects trust-based governance through the logic's demand for financial efficiency.

This paper offers a thorough examination of the United States 2002 National Security Strategy. The document is explored in its broader context, which allows us to understand it in its uniqueness and therefore offer sufficient interpretation. Special attention is devoted to the decision making process of the U.S. National Security Council due to primary responsibility of NSC for coordination of American security policy. Further attention is paid to three particular problem- related parts that are often considered to be the most revolutionary issues of this document. Preemption, unilateralism and U.S. support for the spread of democracy are examined in the broader context of the U.S. foreign policy tradition, American identity and historical development. On the basis of thorough research, the paper supposes that all major parts of this particular document are rather compatible with the development of U.S. security policy and they represent rather the outcome of developments than a fundamental change or reformulation of the strategy. The role of strategic documents is implicitly examined as well, while the study suggests that it should be perceived as a product of bureaucratic politics as summarized in a model by Graham Allison.

Inledning: Revision har en viktig samhällsfunktion i och med sitt syfte att oberoende granska finansiell information. Det kan i mångt och mycket härledas till professionell logik, med en utgångspunkt i hög kvalitet och expertis i det utförda arbetet. Detta ställer krav på att revisorn ska få agera under självstyrning, eftersom det är den professionella som bäst vet hur arbetet ska utföras. Åt det andra hållet, är revisionsbyråer vinstdrivande företag. Detta kan härledas till den kommersiella logiken med en utgångspunkt i vinstintresse och att uppnå effektivitet i organisationen. Hur dessa logiker existerar i relation till varandra är till viss del motsägelsefullt. Vissa menar att det finns en grundläggande konflikt på en organisatorisknivå mellan dessa logiker, och att vinstintresset går ut över kvaliteten på revisionen. Andra studier påvisar ett samspel genom att revisorn utvecklar en hybrididentitet och kombinerar de olika logikerna vid olika tillfällen.  Syfte: Syftet med studien är att bidra till tidigare forskning med en fördjupad förståelse för hur kommersiell och professionell logik synliggörs på en organisatorisk nivå och på individnivå. Syftet är även att förklara vilken roll styrningen har i att förmedla professionalismen och revisionsbyråns ekonomiska intresse. Detta för att få helhetsbild av hur kommersiell och professionell logik förhåller sig till varandra. Metod: En kvalitativ studie har genomförts genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med sju yrkesverksamma revisorer. Empirin har även bestått av företagstexter i form av årsredovisningar, karriärsblogg och material publicerad på revisionsbyråers hemsidor.  Slutsats: Vi kan se att revisionsbyråerna och revisorerna både förmedlar en bild av sig som professionella men även kommersiella. Detta synliggörs även i hur revisorn pratar om sin roll och hur denne agerar. Utifrån detta bildas en hybridlogik där både affärsmässiga och professionella aspekter anses viktiga. Vi har även påvisat att professionell och kommersiell logik stärks och styrs mot genom både clan- och byråkratisk styrning. Revisorn går in i olika roller, med antingen den professionella eller kommersiella logiken i fokus, i olika situationer och sätter till viss del egna gränser utifrån detta. Det egna gränssättandet har i vissa situationer visat sig frångå den formella och byråkratiska styrningen. Genom insocialisering och en diskussionskultur bildas en norm om hur revisorn, i sin roll, ska agera i olika kontexter. / Introduction: Auditing has an important social function with the purpose of independently reviewing financial information. It can in many ways be derived from professional logic, based on high quality and expertise in the work performed. This requires that the auditor can act under self-control, since it is the professional who knows best how the work should be performed. On the other hand, auditing firms are profit-making companies. This can be derived from the commercial logic based on profit interest and achieving efficiency in the organization. How these logics exist in relation to each other is to some extent contradictory. Some argue that there is a fundamental conflict at an organizational level between these logics, and that the profit interest goes beyond the quality of the audit. Other studies show an interaction in that the auditor develops a hybrid identity and combines the different logics at different times. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to contribute to previous research with a deeper understanding of how commercial and professional logic is visible at an organizational level and at the individual level. The purpose is also to explain the role of the controlling and managing in maintaining professionalism and the financial interests of the auditing firm. Through this a complete picture is given of how commercial and professional logic relates to each other. Method: A qualitative study has been conducted through semi-structured interviews with seven professional auditors. The empirical data also consists of company texts in the form of annual reports, career blogs and materials published on the auditing agencies' websites.  Conclusions: We can see that the audit firms and the auditors both convey a picture of themselves as professional but also commercial, this also make visible in how the auditor talks about his role and how he acts. Based on this, a hybrid logic is formed in which both business and professional aspects are considered important. We have also shown that professional and commercial logic is strengthened and guided by both clan- and bureaucratic control. The auditor takes on different roles, with either the professional or commercial logic in focus, in different situations and to some extent set their own boundaries based on this. These own boundaries have in certain situations been shown to deviate from formal and bureaucratic governance. Through socialization and a discussion culture, a norm seems to be formed of how the auditor, in his role, should act in different contexts.

[pt] O principal objetivo desta tese é compreender a implementação do Prêmio Escola Nota Dez (PENDEz) em quatro pares de escolas parceiras do Estado do Ceará, a partir da percepção e atuação dos agentes implementadores. O PENDEz constitui o principal instrumento de indução estadual do Pacto pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa (Paic) e premia financeiramente, todo ano, desde 2007, as 150 escolas com melhor desempenho nas avaliações estaduais do segundo ano (Spaece-Alfa) e do quinto e nono anos (Spaece) do ensino fundamental. Ao mesmo tempo, oferece auxílio financeiro às 150 escolas com menor desempenho, no valor de 50 por cento do total dos recursos financeiros destinados às escolas premiadas. Esta pesquisa focalizou a implementação do PENDEz nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental, fez uso dos dados do Spaece-Alfa na seleção dos quatro pares de escolas e envolveu análise documental, observação e entrevistas. Foram analisadas as normas, condicionalidades e incentivos presentes nos documentos relativos à formulação do PENDEz e, por meio de entrevistas, foram investigadas as percepções dos agentes implementadores (gerentes do Paic, diretores escolares e coordenadores pedagógicos) em uma dupla direção: a das pressões e condicionalidades que o Prêmio exerce sobre suas ações e sobre as relações estabelecidas nas parcerias, e a do papel dos agentes e o uso de sua discricionariedade na adequação, interpretação e ajuste local da própria política. Também foram considerados os contextos de implementação, por meio de visitas às oito escolas parceiras e às respectivas secretarias municipais de educação. Os roteiros de entrevistas e as análise foram construídas em interlocução com estudos sobre burocracia de nível de rua e de médio escalão (LIPSKY, LOTTA, OLIVEIRA), equidade escolar (DUBET), instrumentos da ação pública (LASCOUMÉS e LE GALÉS) e accountability (AFONSO; BARROSO). O que se constatou, nos quatro pares de escolas investigados, foi que as escolas apoiadas conseguiram melhorar seus resultados, independentemente de terem recebido auxílio financeiro do governo estadual ou apoio técnico-pedagógico das escolas premiadas, como preconizam as normas do PENDez. Constatou-se, também, a importância da dimensão simbólica do Prêmio, que atua de forma a colocar as escolas premiadas e seus agentes em condição de destaque social, enquanto as escolas apoiadas e seus agentes são estigmatizados, mesmo tendo desempenhado um bom trabalho. O uso da discricionariedade foi identificado na variação dos critérios utilizados por cada escola para julgar quem, entre os diferentes agentes escolares, deveria ser considerado apto a receber a bonificação prevista no Prêmio. Sem infringir as normas, as escolas encontraram brechas para bonificarem os agentes considerados mais merecedores, por terem contribuído para a aprendizagem da turma responsável pela premiação da escola. Verificou-se, também, que, em que pese o PENDez ter como objetivos potencializar as ações do Paic, combater as desigualdades educacionais e melhorar os resultados das escolas, seu componente meritocrático, que confere prestígio social às escolas premiadas, causa impactos negativos nos agentes escolares e, principalmente, nos estudantes das escolas apoiadas, conforme relato dos agentes implementadores. / [en] The goal of this doctoral dissertation is to investigate the implementation of the Prêmio Escola Nota Dez (PENDez) - Maximum Score School Award - in four pairs of schools in Ceará state – Brazil. For this purpose this study seeks to understand how the implementation of policy occurs, based on the perception and performance of the implementing agents. PENDEz is the main instrument for state induction of the Pacto de Alfabetização na Idade Certa (Paic) - Pact for Literacy in the Right Age. Since 2007, the PENDEz has been awarding the 150 best performing schools in the Sistema Permanente de Avaliação da Educação Básica do Ceará (Basic Education Permanent Assessment System of Ceará state) – Spaece-Alfa. This program also provides financial support to the lower performing schools. This resource is equal to half of the award of the schools that reached the best results. This research focused on the implementation of PENDEz in the initial years of elementary school. There were used of Spaece-Alfa data for the selection of four pairs of schools. The analysis was based on documentary exploration, observation and interviews with the implementing agents (teachers, education administrators and managers of the PAIC). The research intends to describe the pressures and conditionalities of the PENDez on the schools and the relations established in the partnerships schools. This study also aims to show the role of the agents and the use of their discricionariety in the adequacy, interpretation and local adjustment of the policy itself. The interview scripts and analyzes were constructed in interlocution with studies of street and middle level bureaucracy (LIPSKY, LOTTA, OLIVEIRA), school equity (DUBET), public action instruments (LASCOUMÉS and LE GALÉS) and accountability AFONSO; BARROSO). The results show that the supported schools were able to improve their results, regardless of whether they received financial assistance from the state government or technical-pedagogical support from the awardwinning schools, as advocated by PENDEZ standards. It was also noted the importance of the symbolic dimension of the Prize, which acts in a way that places awarding schools and their agents in a socially prominent condition, while supported schools and their agents are stigmatized, even though they have done a good job. The use of discricionariety was identified in the variation of the criteria used by each school to judge who among the different school agents should be considered fit to receive the bonus provided in the Award. Without breaching the rules, schools found loopholes to boost the agents considered most deserving because they contributed to the learning of the class responsible for school awards. It was also verified that, in spite of the fact that PENDez aims to strengthen Paic actions, combat educational inequalities and improve school performance, its meritocratic component, which gives social prestige to the award-winning schools, has a negative impact on the agents school students and, especially, the students of the supported schools, as reported by the implementing agents.

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Rural development efforts in Third World countries often fail to meet the needs of the most disadvantaged members of society. The priviledged continue to get a disproportionate share of the fruits of development. This is so in spite of the fact that development thinking has changed from the days when the poor were expected to benefit from development through the "trickle down" effect. It is now widely recognised that development should be focused on people in their local communities (human development) and not on the economy per se. To achieve this type of development requires an appropriate strategy of development, and people's/community participation is such a strategy. People's participation in development takes place through community based organisations. The organisations faciiitate the development of the human potential of members. This study investigates the conditions under which rural community participation takes place in lesotho. The Thabana-Morena Integrated Rural Development Project is used as a case study. The first objective is to determine the appropriateness of the organisations through which community participation was promoted in the project. The second objective is to isolate the political and administrative factors which affected participation in the project. Thirdly, the study tries to identify factors at the village level which influenced participation in the project. Fourthly, the study evaluates the effectiveness of the project in experimenting with participatory approaches, given that development projects are basically mechanisms for testing the appropriateness of national policies before applying them on a wide scale. Finally, a set of principles is developed on the basis of which participatory development can be facilitated. / Development Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Development Administration)

This dissertation attempts to explain why cross-national variation exists in government approaches to dealing with illegal drugs. As other scholars have shown, several domestic and international political factors do account for some of this variance. However less is known of the effect that bureaucratic dominance and political institutions may have on drug policy. This research argues that bureaucrats define problems in ways that make their services the best possible solution to policymakers. Mediating the ability of bureaucrats to influence drug policy outcomes are political institutions. Certain institutional structures foster a competitive policymaking environment while others foster a more cooperative policymaking environment. In the former of these, law enforcement approaches to the drug problem are often retained as the status quo because competition between policy actors prevents consideration of alternatives. In the latter environment however, prevention, treatment, and harm reduction approaches to the drug problem are developed because cooperation between policymakers allows other actors. namely public health bureaucrats.to influence drug policy decision making. To test this argument, I constructed an original dataset that includes over 4,000 observations of drug policy in 101 democracies. Institutional data on intergovernmental relations, regime type, political bargaining, electoral design, and cameralism were regressed on 6 different drug policy indices: law enforcement, deterrence-based prevention, abstinence-based treatment, educationbased prevention, substitution-based treatment, and harm reduction. While controlling for government resource capacity, severity of the drug problem, international pressure, and political ideology, I found that institutions explain a portion of the variance in drug policy outcomes. Providing in-depth information about these phenomena is a large amount of field data I collected while interviewing 155 politicians, bureaucrats, interest group leaders, and service providers. Respondents from all four of the case countries examined in this research.including United States, Canada, Austria, and Netherlands.report that bureaucrats play a major role in the formation of drug policy. Which bureaucrats have the most influence on policymakers is largely a function of domestic political conditions, international political factors, and political institutions.

[pt] A partir do governo Fernando Henrique Cardoso começou a ser adotado no Brasil um modelo de administração de serviços públicos de caráter público/privado, conhecido como Organização Social (OS). As OS são organizações privadas sem fins lucrativos que administram os mais variados serviços públicos nacionais. Atualmente existem cerca de 200 OSs nos planos municipal, estadual e federal, dentre elas a Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP, organização que cuida da operação bem como das questões estratégicas da Internet acadêmica brasileira. O objetivo desta dissertação é desenvolver uma análise do caso RNP visando a compreensão de sua atuação internacional e sua contribuição para a política externa brasileira. Minha hipótese pretende demonstrar que a atuação dupla da RNP, nas esferas pública e privada, potencializa sua influência na composição da agenda de política externa brasileira para a sociedade da informação e integração regional na medida em que possibilita a este ator participar simultaneamente de diferentes loci do processo decisório que influenciam na política externa. A partir de uma atuação burocrática, a RNP transita com facilidade pelas instâncias hierárquicas da burocracia e assume um papel análogo ao de uma minoria burocrática. Por meio de estratégias de influência tão, e em alguns casos até mais, capazes quanto às utilizadas pelos principais atores burocráticos, essas minorias asseguram seu espaço na arena do processo decisório de política externa. Em outro diapasão, a atuação não-estatal da RNP insere esta organização na rede horizontal de atores não-estatais em sua área de atuação. Face à relevância destes atores observada no bojo da revolução tecnológico-informacional, os mesmos vêm demonstrando efetiva participação na elaboração da política externa brasileira. / [en] Since Fernando Henrique Cardoso´s administration, Brazil started to adopt a public / private way for public services management, known as Social Organization (SO). The SOs are not-for-profit organizations that operate a variety of national public services. Currently, there are around 200 SOs operating at the local, estate and federal levels, among them Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa - RNP, the organization in charge of the Brazilian academic Internet operation and its strategic matters. The goal of this dissertation is to develop an analysis on RNP case, aiming at understanding its international actorness and its contribution for the Brazilian foreign policy. My hypothesis intends to show that RNP´s double actorness in the public and private realms, leverage its influence in the Brazilian foreign policy agenda for the information society and regional integration. This fact enables RNP to take part simultaneously in the different decision process loci that impact the country foreign policy. From bureaucratic acting, RNP moves with relative ease among the realms of the bureaucratic hierarchy and takes over a role analogous of a bureaucratic minority. By using influence strategies as capable as those used by the major bureaucratic actors, these minorities are able to conquer their space in the foreign policy decision process realm. On the other hand, the non-state RNP acting allows it to participate on the non-state actor network. On the forefront of the relevance of these non- state actors, observed on the realm of the information technology revolution, have been actively taking part in the construction of the Brazilian foreign policy agenda.