The record of American foreign policy in the Middle East between 2001 and 2006 is marked mostly by failures of the Bush Administration to achieve its stated objectives, including reducing terrorism, stopping the spread of weapons of mass destruction, and spreading liberal democracy. Still, there are also notable bright spots, including the case of Libya’s diplomatic rehabilitation. What is it, then, that accounts for this success in the face of so many other failures where the policy goals were markedly similar? I argue that a partial explanation of this discrepancy can be found in the nature of infighting between ideological realists and neoconservatives within the foreign policy bureaucracy. In doing so, process tracing is used to examine policy development toward four country cases: Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and Libya, with Libya acting as the control. The object of these case studies is to demonstrate existence of a previously undescribed model of bureaucratic infighting, based on competing ideological differences regarding the fundamental direction and conduct of US foreign policy. I call this the Ideological Infighting, or I2, Model. Whereas previous works of US foreign policy analysis have focused only on the roles of individuals’ ideology or on bureaucratic interests, this study unites both. In doing so, it describes the policy effects that result from ideological disagreements within the executive agencies, rather than viewing a presidential administration as an ideologically coherent entity. It also refines understandings of the relationship between the President and his advisors. Finally, although this work deals specifically with the Middle East, the model is generalizable to all areas of US foreign policy.

This research seeks to connect the philosophical focus of the agency-structure debate with the practice of management through a comparative study of organisational decision-making in situations involving stakeholder consultation. Set in the context of decision-making following an airport master plan consultation, the study considers how the stakeholder framework can be integrated within institutional theory using institutional logics as a theoretical link between these two literatures. This thesis, which adopts a critical realist perspective, takes a comparative case approach of four airports, each owned in different ways. Interviews with airport managers are supplemented by discussions with stakeholders and industry experts. Two sets of a priori themes were identified from the literature. The first focuses on the institutional logics prevailing in the field and their influence on managers as they make decisions. The second considers four decision-making strategies managers might employ in this situation. Findings centre on the causal powers acting upon airport managers as they make their decisions. Whilst normative isomorphic pressure enables stakeholder consultation, the coercive pressure on the decision-making process deriving from English planning law, the adversarial and oscillating nature of Central Government policy, and a mimetic response to the nature of local authority development plans constrain the actions of airport managers. Indeed, the current bureaucratic form of capitalism limits stakeholder contribution to final master plans. This research makes four main contributions: Firstly, reflecting upon the agency-structure debate from a critical realist perspective has facilitated development of a model integrating the stakeholder framework within institutional theory. Secondly, it improves our understanding of how stakeholder contribution is managed in master planning. Thirdly, the study adds to the growing body of work that employs a critical realist perspective. Lastly, since reconciling conflicting stakeholder opinions may well be of vital importance to the future of the UK’s airport infrastructure, this work has practical significance for airport managers, government policy-makers and stakeholders as they strive to formulate worthwhile airport consultations.

Titel: Styrning inom svenska ekonomi- och handelshögskolor. -Marknadsstyrning, byråkratisk styrning eller klanstyrning? Bakgrund: I den forskning som finns kring styrning inom högre lärosäten förespråkas klan- och kulturstyrning som den styrform som bör användas eftersom högre lärosäten karaktäriseras av hög kunskap och samarbete. Samtidigt visar empirisk forskning att styrning inom högre lärosäten allt mer karaktäriseras av outputmätningar vilket leder till kontroverser. Flera av de studier som finns på ämnet är dessutom baserade utifrån ett medarbetarperspektiv vilket skapar ett gap i teorin kring hur frågan bemöts utifrån ett ledarskapsperspektiv. Syfte: Studiens syfte är att, utifrån ett ledarskapsperspektiv, kartlägga den styrning som sker inom svenska ekonomi- och handelshögskolor. Utöver detta ska studien även förklara huruvida olika situationsfaktorer påverkar styrningen samt hur dessa påverkar. Metod: Studien tar sin utgångspunkt i en kvalitativ studie där flera intervjuer har gjorts för att ge studien en omfattande och nyanserad bild av styrningen på svenska ekonomi- och handelshögskolor. Slutsats: Studiens resultat har visat att det förekommer en blandning av marknadsstyrning, byråkratisk styrning samt klanstyrning inom svenska ekonomi- och handelshögskolor. Studien har även visat att styrningen skiljer sig åt när det kommer till utbildning respektive forskning. Inom forskningen är marknadsstyrningen dominerande medan utbildningen har en större variation av styrformer. Det har också visat sig att flera av studiens situationsfaktorer har inverkan på den styrning som sker. / Title: Governance within Swedish economics and business schools. - Market mechanisms, Bureaucratic mechanisms or Clan mechanisms? Background: In current research on organizational control in higher education institutions, clan- and culture mechanisms is advocated as the form of organizational control that should be used due to the fact that higher education institutions are characterized by high knowledge and cooperation. At the same time, empirical research shows that organizational control within higher education institutions is increasingly characterized by output measurements. Several of the studies that concern the subject are also based on an employee perspective, which creates a gap in the theory of how the issue is addressed from a leadership perspective. Purpose: The aim of the study is to, based on a leadership perspective, chart the organizational control that takes place in Swedish economics and business schools. In addition, the study should also explain whether different situational factors affect the control and how these affect. Method: The study takes its starting point in a qualitative study in which several interviews have been made to give the study an extensive and nuanced picture of the organizational control at Swedish economics and business schools. Conclusion: The results of the study have shown that there is a mixture of market mechanisms, bureaucratic mechanisms and clan mechanisms within Swedish economics and business schools. The study has also shown that the organizational control differs when it comes to education and research. In research, market mechanisms is dominant, while education has a greater variety of forms of mechanisms. It has also been found that several of the study's situation factors have an influence on the organizational control that is taking place.

O objetivo geral deste trabalho é compreender as razões da autonomia burocrática das organizações financeiras internacionais. O objetivo específico é entender porque o Banco Mundial alcançou um grau maior de autonomia do que o Fundo Monetário Internacional a despeito de possuírem estruturas de governança parecidas e terem sido criados no mesmo contexto histórico. Acreditamos que as razões desta diferença residem na burocracia com expertise mais diversificada do Banco Mundial em contraste a burocracia com expertise mais rígida do FMI. Uma burocracia mais diversificada aumenta as possibilidades de formação de coalizões com ONGs em torno de policies de interesse da burocracia. Estas coalizões aumentam os custos de intervenção dos Estados para alterar ou barrar as policies defendidas pelo corpo burocrático. Assim, nossa hipótese é a seguinte: quanto maior a diversidade de expertise da burocracia internacional maior será a possibilidade de formação de coalizões com ONGs em torno de policies de seu interesse e, conseqüentemente, maior será sua autonomia burocrática. Do ponto de vista teórico utilizamos a teoria agente-principal para discutir burocracias internacionais. Do ponto de vista metodológico utilizamos o método comparativo com base em instrumentos qualitativos de análise e estatística descritiva. / The main goal of this dissertation is to understand the building of bureaucratic autonomy among international financial organizations. The specific goal is to understand why the World Bank has reached more bureaucratic autonomy than the International Monetary Fund regardless the fact that both have similar institutional structures. We believe that the reason for such difference is a more diverse expertise of the World Bank compared to the IMF. We claim that a more diverse bureaucracy increases the likelihood of coalition formation with NGOs. Such coalitions aim to support policies that are important for both the bureaucracy and the NGOs. Consequently, they increase the costs for both State intervention and State control over the organization. The higher costs of intervention and control allow bureaucrats to act more freely according to their interests. Hence, our hypothesis is the following: the more diverse the bureaucratic expertise, the more likely is the formation of coalitions between bureaucracy and NGOs, and the greater the costs for State control and intervention. Higher intervention and control costs, in turn, increase bureaucratic autonomy. We use mainly qualitative research methods with some descriptive statistics.

La thèse étudie le travail ordinaire de mobilisation des chômeurs dans différentes organisations militantes. Ce faisant, elle interroge les conditions de leur représentation en regard de l’« autonomie relative » de l’espace des organisations de chômeurs. La faible unification sociale de cette catégorie administrative et la pluralité des inscriptions sociales, politiques et professionnelles des groupes engagés dans la cause déterminent des logiques d’engagement fortement différenciées. En reconstituant l’espace des positions et des prises de position au sein de ces organisations, la thèse montre d’une part l’influence qu’exercent certains groupes sociaux et, à travers eux, les logiques spécifiques à d’autres champs sociaux (syndical, du travail social) sur le travail militant. D’autre part, elle invite à repenser l’opposition classique entre producteurs et bénéficiaires de l’action collective en analysant les effets différenciés du chômage sur les carrières militantes. / This research investigates the ordinary work of mobilization of the unemployed by several militant organizations. By doing so, it interrogates conditions of their representation in light of the “relative autonomy” of the unemployed organizations space. The faint social unification of this administrative category added with the plurality of social, political, and professional admissions of groups involved in that cause determine highly differentiated commitments strategies. Through the reconstitution of stances and standpoints space within the organizations, this thesis shows on the one hand the influence exerted by certain social groups and, through them, specific logic of other social fields (trade-union, social work) on the militant work. On the other hand it tempts to review the classical opposition between producers and recipients of the collective action by analyzing unemployment’s differentiated effects on militant careers.

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Relying on critical theory and in formulations that articulate an ontology based on historical realism, in a transactional epistemology, both dialectic and dialogic, we search for a qualitative aspect, through bibliographic and documentary research; critical discourse analysis, which intersects with the approach of the Policy Cycle, observation and questionnaires, intermingled with the history of professional life. The dynamics of this research provides, in methodological discussions, through the theoretical framework, to literature review about the Educational Supervision, centralization versus decentralization, including reflections on the national systems of education, an interesting dialogue among several authors such as Enrique Dussel (2012), Dermeval Saviani (2014, 2010), Gimeno Sacristán & Pérez Gómez (1998), Michel Foucault (2014, 2011), Richard Bowe and Stephen Ball (1992), Formosinho et al (1999), Uwe Flick (2009), Norman Denzin & Yvonna Lincoln (2006); Alarcão (2014, 2013, 2001, 2000, 1996); Alonso (2010); Ferreira (2013a, 2013b, 2010,2002); Rangel (2013a, 2013b, 2011, 2010, 2008); Silva Júnior (2011a, 2011b, 2010). The research recovers the historical traditions of the E.S. in the country, its vertical joints, searching to peer at the developments of the hierarchical structure of the system and the horizontal, those that occur within the governing bodies, seeking to understand the joints amongst the sub-sectors of the subsystems, as well as between administrative aspects and also pedagogical aspects; it establishes the relationship between the adopted curriculum options and modalities and forms of developed Educational Systems, and also its relationship with the school pedagogical practices as well as the roles and responsibilities of the person in charge of the process and the relations with each other; together with documentary research and the content of what we are given by voice and turn of the persons in charge, in between with the revised theory, it outlines a practical layout of a desired Mozambican educational supervisor and extract the subjective theory it crystallized. The theoretical framework is in the key subject seeking to understand the supervisory action since its inception, its changes of the function, given its constant, permanent and continuous redefinition. In short, it render problematic the National Education System, that in fact does not seem to actually exist as such and, in addition to finding of a close relationship but dependence between a misconception of the curriculum, there are signs of disputes of the desirable supervisory function, which epicenter seems to lie precisely at the Ministry of Education, thus, this situation tends to keep the body of local management of education in a subordinate position, and consequently, their dependence on central bodies tend to be perpetuated. Besides, the research makes visible possibilities to face changes with regard to the place status and ways in which the activity is being developed in Mozambique / Supervisão Educacional (SE) é o tema desta pesquisa. Ela avalia as possibilidades da desburocratização, descentralização e democratização desse processo no contexto da Educação de Moçambique. Visa-se, com isso, contribuir na promoção de estratégias que permitam acções concertadas, coordenadas, mutuamente influenciáveis e profícuas, e ainda, a sua adequação ao estágio actual da Educação do país. Em um exercício de autorreflexão à busca de uma identidade social da função e acção supervisoras, lança-se um olhar aos esforços da sua recolocação no lugar que lhe merece. Apoiando-se na teoria crítica e em formulações que articulam uma ontologia baseada no realismo histórico, em uma epistemologia transacional, tanto dialéctica quanto dialógica, busca-se a vertente qualitativa, através da pesquisa bibliográfica e documental; da análise crítica do discurso, a que se cruza com a abordagem do Ciclo de Políticas, da observação e questionários, de permeio com a história de vida profissional. A dinâmica deste trabalho proporciona, nas discussões metodológicas, passando pelo referencial teórico, até à revisão da literatura acerca da Supervisão Educacional, Centralização versus Descentralização, incluindo as reflexões acerca dos Sistemas Nacionais de Educação, um interessante diálogo entre vários autores, tais como Enrique Dussel (2012); Dermeval Saviani (2014, 2010); Gimeno Sacristán & Pérez Gómez (1998); Michel Foucault (2014, 2011); Richard Bowe e Stephen Ball (1992); João Formosinho et al (1999); Uwe Flick (2009); Norman Denzin & Yvonna Lincoln (2006); Isabel Alarcão (2014, 2013, 2001, 2000, 1996); Myrtes Alonso (2010); Naura Ferreira (2013a, 2013b, 2010, 2002); Mary Rangel |(2013a, 2013b, 2011, 2010, 2008); Celestino da Silva Júnior (2011a, 2011b, 2010). O trabalho recupera as tradições históricas da SE do país, as suas articulações verticais, procurando flagrar os desdobramentos da estrutura hierárquica do sistema; e as horizontais, aquelas que ocorrem no interior dos órgãos gestores, buscando compreender as articulações entre os subsectores dos subsistemas, assim como entre os aspectos administrativos e os de índole pedagógica; estabelece a relação entre as opções curriculares adoptadas e as modalidades e formas de SE desenvolvidas e ainda, sua relação com as práticas pedagógicas escolares, bem como com os papéis e responsabilidade dos sujeitos do processo e as relações entre si; Conjugados a análise documental e o conteúdo do que nos é dado pela voz e vez dos sujeitos, de permeio com a teoria revisada, esboça-se um traçado prático do que seria o supervisor educacional moçambicano e se extrai a teoria subjectiva nele cristalizada. No enquadramento teórico imerge-se no tema chave procurando compreender a acção supervisora desde os seus primórdios, flagrando as mutações sofridas pela função, dada a sua constante, permanente e contínua ressignificação. Problematiza-se enfim, o chamado Sistema Nacional de Educação que a rigor não parece existir efectivamente como tal e, além de concluir da existência de uma intrínseca relação senão dependência entre uma concepção errónea de currículo flagram-se indícios de disputas de protagonismo pela apetecível função supervisora cujo epicentro parece situar-se precisamente, ao nível do Minedh, essa situação tende a manter os órgãos de gestão local da Educação em uma posição subalterna vendo assim, sua dependência em relação aos órgãos centrais tendendo a perpetuar-se. Apesar disso, o trabalho visibiliza possibilidades de encarar alterações no que concerne ao lugar estatuto e formas de praticar esta actividade em Moçambique

O objetivo central deste artigo é identificar quais entraves culturais e burocráticos impactaram o processo de implantação da política de transparência no estado do Rio Grande do Sul no período de 2011 a 2014, considerando a trajetória nacional de desenvolvimento da transparência. A dimensão instrumental da transparência ao regime democrático permite a ampliação dos mecanismos de acesso às informações públicas, com a finalidade de consecução dos mecanismos de accountability. A transparência é uma estratégia de diminuição do segredo e do obscuro no quotidiano estatal. Essa circunstância pretende possibilitar que os governos sejam mais responsáveis frente aos cidadãos. Assim, a cultura da transparência entra em disputa com a cultura do segredo, uma vez que, para o seu desenvolvimento, há necessidade de interferir nas relações de poder consolidadas dentro da estrutura estatal. A análise dos entraves à execução da política de transparência decorre da experiência empírica como gestora da política de transparência no RS. Por fim, as mudanças geram resistências, interferindo no resultado final da implementação da política de transparência. Esses resultados não decorrem, exclusivamente, da vontade política do governante ou da força de resistência da burocracia, mas, precisamente, da relação de força entre eles. / This study aims to identify which cultural and bureaucratic obstacles affected the process of implementing the transparency policy in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the period of 2011-2014, taking into account the national trajectory of the development of transparency. The instrumental dimension of transparency to the democratic regime allows the expansion of the mechanisms that grant access to public information in order to achieve accountability mechanisms. Transparency is a strategy to dwindle the secrecy and obscurity of the state’s daily life; it aims at making governments more accountable to their citizens. Thus, the culture of transparency is in dispute with the culture of secrecy, since there is a need to interfere in the consolidated power relations within the state structure for transparency to flourish. The analysis of the obstacles to the implementation of the transparency policy stems from my empirical experience as manager of the transparency policy in Rio Grande do Sul. Finally, the changes generate resistance, interfering in the outcome of the implementation of the transparency policy. These results do not derive exclusively from the political will of the ruler or from the resistance force of the bureaucracy, but precisely from the relation of force between them.

Cette thèse étudie l'ordinaire bureaucratique des agents de la circonscription scolaire - l'administration scolaire déconcentrée - au Bénin et la manière dont ils "font" l'école primaire au quotidien; Fondé sur quinze mois de terrain entre 2012 et 2015 principalement passés dans deux circonscriptions scolaires du pays, mon travail étudie plus particulièrement l'autorité des chefs - inspecteurs et conseillers pédagogiques - sur la gestion locale de l'école, qu'ils se plaignaient d'avoir perdue depuis 1990 et l'ouverture démocratique du pays. A travers l'analyse socio-historique de la construction des inspections et du groupe professionnel des inspecteurs, l'étude de la circulation de l'autorité au sein de l'arène scolaire locale et des rapports hiérarchiques et pédagogiques entretenus avec les enseignants, je montre comment se négocie, quotidiennement, l'autorité publique sur le service local d'enseignement. Je documente ainsi le jeu entre autorités premières et secondes sur la gestion de l'école à travers les rapports entretenus avec les autorités hiérarchiques, les syndicats, les enseignants, les parents ou la mairie. Les dynamiques de concertation, de négociation ou de contournement de l'administration scolaire locale participent à la production quotidienne de l'école et interrogent l'autorité de la circonscription sur les affaires scolaires. J'analyse également les effets des récentes réformes managériales sur les conditions de travail et les formes de professionnalité des inspecteurs et conseillers. En montrant la coexistence des figures de l'inspecteur "loup-garou", de l'inspecteur "conseiller" et de l'inspecteur "gestionnaire", je ne questionne pas seulement les transformations des ethos professionnels et des manières d'être "chef", mais également la pluralité des façons de faire l'Etat et l'école dans les salles de classe béninoises. / This thesis focuses on the bureaucratic routine of agents of school districts - the decentralized school administration - in Benin, and the ways in which they "make" primary school on a day-to-day basis. Relying on a fifteen months-fieldwork research (2012-2015) conducted mainly in two school districts of the country, this dissertation studies more specifically the leaders' authority - inspectors and pedagogical advisors - over the local management of school that they claim to have lost with the democratic opening in the 1990s. Through a socio-historical analysis of the construction of inspections and the inspectors' occupational group, the study of the circulation of authority within the school's local arena, and the inspectors' hierarchical and pedagogical relations with teachers, I show how public authority is negociated within the local education service. In doing so, I document the strategies at play between first and second-level authorities through the relations maintained with the hierarchical authorities, the unions, the teachers, the parents or the town hall. The dynamics of dialogue, negociation or circumvention of the school district participate in the day-to-day functioning of school and question the local administration's authority over school issues. I also analyse the effects of recent managerial reforms on the inspectors and advisors' working conditions and their professional culture. By demonstrating the coexistence of the figure of the "werewolf" inspector, the "counsellor" inspector and the "manager" inspector, I do not only question the transformations in the ethos of professionals and in the ways of being "a leader", I also question the multiplicity of ways of making the State and making school in Benin's classrooms.

Cette recherche, menée en immersion sur le terrain, vise à rendre plus intelligible le mode projet dans le système de décision des organisations bureaucratiques. Ce sujet, manquant d’évidences tant conceptuelles qu’empiriques, a été analysé longitudinalement et en temps réel par le biais d’une étude de cas enchâssés, composée de cinq projets internes d’une même collectivité territoriale. Pour appréhender davantage la complexité de ce sujet, un cadre conceptuel a été spécifiquement développé sur la base d’une approche multidimensionnelle. Puis, différents dispositifs méthodologiques, oscillant de l’observation flottante jusqu’à la recherche-action, ont été mobilisés pour détecter ce qui relève du singulier ou de la répétition dans les pratiques. Au final, les résultats de cette thèse, largement révélés par l’exercice d’une réflexivité, suggèrent que l’analyse du mode projet dans le système de décision d’une organisation bureaucratique ne peut être menée sans l’usage du concept d’instanciation. Plus encore, au sein des bureaucraties publiques, les projets internes connaissent une instanciation incomplète, néfaste à leur efficience. / This research, performed on the field-based approach, aims to give a more intelligible view of the project mode in the decision-making system within bureaucratic organizations. As this subject lacked of both conceptual and empiric evidences, it was analyzed on a real-time and longitudinal basis by means of embedded case study, composed of five internal projects performed in a territorial community. To advance deeper with the complexity of the subject, a conceptual frame was specifically done on the basis of a multidimensional approach. Then, several methological tools, from floating observation to action-research, were mobilized in order to identify if the practices tackled are either originated in a singular or repetitive approach. Finally, this thesis results, highly revealed through the exercise of reflexivity, show us that the analysis of the mode project in decision-making system within a bureaucratic organization can’t be lead without using the concept of instantiation. Moreover, within the public bureaucracies, the internal projects suffer from an unachieved instantiation, undermining their efficiency.

本文從官僚體制的形成、擴張開始討論起，同時也說明過去一段時間，各國政府努力進行各種改革，終至徒勞無功的原因。官僚體制這個誕生於工業革命、資本主義社會的組織體制，倘若想要鞏固其既有的正當性地位，則必須重新認識環境，以及瞭解本身的困境所在。後官僚典範的形成，正代表著行政學者、管理學者，以及組織論者對官僚體制的批判與反省。企業型官僚體制是後官僚革新典範策略之一，她不僅是理論的建構，更是實際行政革新工作的範例。將企業精神引進公共部門以重建政府的能力，已是當代各國政府實施行政革新的主要策略。本文內容共計五章，第一章緒論，旨在說明本研究之動機、目的、範圍、架構、方法和主要概念之界定。第二章官僚體制的典範移轉，旨在說明官僚體制的形成及其因外部環境變遷下的種種限制，而既往針對官僚體制改革的成效並不理想，希望藉由理解官僚典範已經移轉的意義，更新採取後官僚革新途徑來加以活化官僚體制。第三章企業型官僚體制理論探討，旨在深入探討企業精神成為行政革新動力的原因、障礙、及其突破，並試初步進行企業型官僚體制的建構，說明企業型官僚體制的創新職能，和如何營造利於企業型組織發展的環境。第四章企業型官僚體制評估，旨在從價值、理論及實務三個面向，評估企業型官僚體制作為行政革新策略的可行性和作用程度。第五章結論部分，則就研究發與檢討加以說明，並提出後續研究建議。