Abstract
The core assumption in this chapter is that political actors and civil servants on the municipal level share in the common societal responsibility for the education and upbringing of the next generation. Using a filter of five core public-governance logics in the analysis of our data – the marketplace logic, the managerial, the public, the professional and the ethical –we find both similarities and differences between politicians and civil servants. We analyse how politicians and administrators are positioned in the system and how they develop their commitment to, and their competencies to take part in furthering, both a democratic education and an efficient and effective governance system, in the context of municipalities that face continued restructuring. We present similarities and differences between countries in the project, so some overlapping from the country reports will occur in this chapter.
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e.g.: WTO: World trade Organisation, OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, GATT: General Agreement on Tariff and Trade, IMF: International Monetary Fund, EU: European Union (especially ‘the Inner Market’) and the World Bank.
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e.g.: WTO: World trade Organisation, OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, GATT: General Agreement on Tariff and Trade, IMF: International Monetary Fund, EU: European Union (especially ‘the Inner Market’) and the World Bank.
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Labeled ‘Th Local Government Proposition 2015’—Proposition No. 95.S, downloaded from: https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/08781af7a94a495486bfcce05bcb0444/meldingsdel_kommunereform_og_vedlegg.pdf
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Moos, L., Johansson, O., Paulsen, J.M., Strand, M., Risku, M. (2016). Democracy in Complex Networks: Political Leaders and Administrative Professionals. In: Moos, L., Nihlfors, E., Paulsen, J. (eds) Nordic Superintendents: Agents in a Broken Chain. Educational Governance Research, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25106-6_6
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