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Nyberg Alamaa, Linda, Universitetslektor, biträdandeORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-5458-3120
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Alamaa, L., Hall, P. & Löfgren, K. (2025). Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability. Public Policy and Administration, 40(1), 50-69
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Why are organisational professionals expanding in the Swedish public sector? The role of accountability
2025 (engelsk)Inngår i: Public Policy and Administration, ISSN 0952-0767, E-ISSN 1749-4192, Vol. 40, nr 1, s. 50-69Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
Abstract [en]

Recent research shows that new types of high-skilled administrators, what we in this article label organisational professionals, have amplified their presence in public sector organisations in relation to other types of public sector employees. Our purpose is to analyse how organisational accountability can be seen as a driver behind the expansion of organisational professionals. Intensified political and administrative pressures seem to be driving this process, but there also seems to be internal turfs in which the different parts of the government administration seek to hold each other accountable, a process possibly amplified by professionalising ambitions of the organisational professionals. The article concludes that the bureaucratising effect of accountability demands ought to be highlighted more in critical research of accountability. The study is based on semi-structured interviews and focus groups with public sector professionals in Sweden from different policy sectors and government levels.

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London: Sage Publications, 2025
Emneord
organisational professionals, accountability, bureaucratization
HSV kategori
Forskningsprogram
Smarta städer och samhällen, TRAINS
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-52413 (URN)10.1177/09520767241227068 (DOI)
Forskningsfinansiär
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2019-01278
Tilgjengelig fra: 2024-01-16 Laget: 2024-01-16 Sist oppdatert: 2025-01-09bibliografisk kontrollert
Hall, P., Löfgren, K. & Nyberg Alamaa, L. (2024). Organisational Professionals, Accountability and the Impact on Societal Value. In: Tanja Klenk, Mirko Noordegraaf, Elisabetta Notarnicola, Karsten Vrangbæk (Ed.), Societal Value of Welfare Politics, Policies and Services: (pp. 237-258). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Organisational Professionals, Accountability and the Impact on Societal Value
2024 (engelsk)Inngår i: Societal Value of Welfare Politics, Policies and Services / [ed] Tanja Klenk, Mirko Noordegraaf, Elisabetta Notarnicola, Karsten Vrangbæk, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, s. 237-258Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
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Forskningsprogram
Smarta städer och samhällen, TRAINS
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urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-55174 (URN)10.1007/978-3-031-70969-2 (DOI)978-3-031-70968-5 (ISBN)978-3-031-70969-2 (ISBN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2025-01-02 Laget: 2025-01-02 Sist oppdatert: 2025-01-07bibliografisk kontrollert
Hall, P., Alamaa, L. & Löfgren, K. (2022). Accountability as the Driver of a New Bureaucracy?: An Interpretive Study of Organisational Professionals in Sweden. In: : . Paper presented at European Group for Public Administration (EGPA), Lisbon, Portugal, September 6-9, 2022.
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Accountability as the Driver of a New Bureaucracy?: An Interpretive Study of Organisational Professionals in Sweden
2022 (engelsk)Konferansepaper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Fagfellevurdert)
Abstract [en]

There is a growing academic interest in the paradox that while public sector reform-makers are aiming to reduce bureaucratic layers we are witnessing new forms of bureaucratization. This extant body of literature has so far tended to focus on red-tape (Bozeman & Feeney, 2007) and administrative intensity (Andrews et al. 2017). This paper takes an alternative approach to bureaucratization by investigating the relationship between public sector reforms and the increase of new types of ‘bureaucrats’ within public organizations. We apply the concept of organizational professionals to define a special category of professional administrators with managerial, corporate or strategic functions in organisational communication, human relations, project management, quality assurance, sustainability, inclusiveness, equity etc.

Hitherto, the growth in numbers and status of organizational professionals has been seen in the literature as the outcome of New Public Management-inspired reforms and/or the ‘professionalizing’ aspirations of occupational groups themselves (Nordengraaf et al., 2014). We contend that a focus on NPM is too narrow when it comes to understanding the drivers of bureaucratization. Following Halligan (2020) it seems like managerialism is only one part of the storyline, while politicization of the public sector has been equally significant. What seems to unite these three elements (managerialisation, professionalisation and politicization) is the emphasis on accountability. Based on Bovens (2007) we separate between five different accountability relationships mentioned by our respondents: political, legal, professional, social, and administrative.

Based on qualitative interviews and focus groups with organizational professionals working in various parts of the public sector in Sweden, and applying an interpretive methodological approach, we ask in this paper how those organisational professionals perceive changing professional roles and the chains of accountability. While the increase in organizational professionals is conceived as an organizational response to external demands for accountability, our empirical data also suggests that the organisational professional groups are responding to internal demands for enhancing accountability mechanisms (as well as themselves generating such demands). The organizational professionals themselves describe this as a tension between supporting and steering, On the one hand they describe their role as hiving off administrative chore from managers and core service professionals, and on the other hand, assuring that the same actors adhere to the policies and guidelines they themselves have created. Our results suggest that a broad discourse of accountability in public organisations serve to justify an increase in organisational professional staff.

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urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48496 (URN)
Konferanse
European Group for Public Administration (EGPA), Lisbon, Portugal, September 6-9, 2022
Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-10-19 Laget: 2022-10-19 Sist oppdatert: 2022-10-20bibliografisk kontrollert
Nyberg Alamaa, L. (2022). Efter new public management. In: Niklas Altermark; Magnus Dahlstedt (Ed.), Bortom systemskiftet: Mot en ny gemenskap (pp. 96-119). Stockholm: Verbal
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Efter new public management
2022 (svensk)Inngår i: Bortom systemskiftet: Mot en ny gemenskap / [ed] Niklas Altermark; Magnus Dahlstedt, Stockholm: Verbal , 2022, s. 96-119Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
Stockholm: Verbal, 2022
Emneord
New Public Management, tillitsbaserad styrning, managerialism, arbetsplatsdemokrati
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Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48383 (URN)9789189155916 (ISBN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-10-12 Laget: 2022-10-12 Sist oppdatert: 2022-10-13bibliografisk kontrollert
Nyberg Alamaa, L. & Altermark, N. (2022). Governmentality. In: Linda Alamaa; Stina Melander; Ylva Stubbergaard (Ed.), Perspektiv på offentlig förvaltning: Teori i praktiken (pp. 169-188). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Governmentality
2022 (svensk)Inngår i: Perspektiv på offentlig förvaltning: Teori i praktiken / [ed] Linda Alamaa; Stina Melander; Ylva Stubbergaard, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2022, s. 169-188Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
sted, utgiver, år, opplag, sider
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2022
Emneord
governmentality, offentlig förvaltning, uppsatsskrivande
HSV kategori
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48420 (URN)978-91-44-15324-7 (ISBN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-10-12 Laget: 2022-10-12 Sist oppdatert: 2022-10-13bibliografisk kontrollert
Nyberg Alamaa, L., Melander, S. & Stubbergaard, Y. (Eds.). (2022). Perspektiv på offentlig förvaltning: Teori i praktiken. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Perspektiv på offentlig förvaltning: Teori i praktiken
2022 (svensk)Collection/Antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
Abstract [sv]

Resultatet av politiska beslut påverkas i stor utsträckning av vad som sker i den offentliga förvaltningen. Att studera hur förvaltningen styrs och hur den fungerar är därför helt centralt inom samhällsvetenskaperna. För att analysera den offentliga förvaltningens komplexitet och mångfald behövs ett brett spektrum av teorier, men beroende på vilken teori som används kommer både frågeställningar och svar att variera. Syftet med denna bok är att förmedla kunskap om och inspirera till reflektion över teorier och hur de kan användas i vetenskapliga undersökningar. I boken presenteras olika teoretiska ingångar till studiet av den offentliga förvaltningen. Uppsatsförfattare får exempel på hur en vetenskaplig studie kan läggas upp, olika teoriers styrkor och svagheter samt förslag på hur fallgropar kan undvikas. Perspektiv på offentlig förvaltning riktar sig till studenter och lärare inom offentlig förvaltning.

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Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2022. s. 256
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urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48419 (URN)978-91-44-15324-7 (ISBN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-10-12 Laget: 2022-10-12 Sist oppdatert: 2022-10-13bibliografisk kontrollert
Löfgren, K., Darrah-Morgan, B., Hall, P. & Alamaa, L. (2022). The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand?. Administration & Society, 54(1), 57-86
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand?
2022 (engelsk)Inngår i: Administration & Society, ISSN 0095-3997, E-ISSN 1552-3039, Vol. 54, nr 1, s. 57-86Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
Abstract [en]

One recurrent narrative in the discussion about managerial public sector reforms is the growth in organizational professionals as a response to new accountability regimes. New Zealand has experienced modest growth rates in the general public sector workforce. Less studied, though, is whether the composition of the public sector workforce has changed, with an increase in organizational functions supportive to management. Based on descriptive workforce data, followed by follow-up interviews, this article presents a multifaceted and complex picture of a growing new public bureaucracy with the main task of managing chains of accountability. © The Author(s) 2021.

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Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2022
Emneord
managerialism, New Zealand, organizational professional, public sector
HSV kategori
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48291 (URN)10.1177/00953997211013301 (DOI)000652215900001 ()2-s2.0-85105808949 (Scopus ID)
Forskningsfinansiär
Forte, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, STYA-2019/0002
Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-10-07 Laget: 2022-10-07 Sist oppdatert: 2022-10-20bibliografisk kontrollert
Nyberg Alamaa, L. (2021). En infrastruktur för hållbar antibiotikaanvändning: Antibiotikaresistens som ett politiskt problem. In: Kristofer Hansson; Cecilia Lenander; Henrik Loodin (Ed.), Att leva med bakterier: Möjligheter till ett levbart immunitärt liv (pp. 105-123). Lund: Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>En infrastruktur för hållbar antibiotikaanvändning: Antibiotikaresistens som ett politiskt problem
2021 (svensk)Inngår i: Att leva med bakterier: Möjligheter till ett levbart immunitärt liv / [ed] Kristofer Hansson; Cecilia Lenander; Henrik Loodin, Lund: Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet , 2021, s. 105-123Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Annet vitenskapelig)
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Lund: Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet, 2021
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urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48430 (URN)978-91-984394-2-7 (ISBN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-10-12 Laget: 2022-10-12 Sist oppdatert: 2022-10-13bibliografisk kontrollert
Hettne, J. & Nyberg Alamaa, L. (2018). EU:s statsstödspolitik och det kommunala självstyret. Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift (5), 85-110
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>EU:s statsstödspolitik och det kommunala självstyret
2018 (svensk)Inngår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift, ISSN 0039-0747, nr 5, s. 85-110Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
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Lund: Fahlbeckska Stiftelsen, 2018
Emneord
statsstöd, statligt stöd, EU, lokal demokrati
HSV kategori
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48423 (URN)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-10-12 Laget: 2022-10-12 Sist oppdatert: 2022-10-18bibliografisk kontrollert
Altermark, N. & Nyberg Alamaa, L. (2018). Neuro-Problems: Knowing Politics Through the Brain. Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 10(1), 31-48
Åpne denne publikasjonen i ny fane eller vindu >>Neuro-Problems: Knowing Politics Through the Brain
2018 (engelsk)Inngår i: Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, E-ISSN 2000-1525, Vol. 10, nr 1, s. 31-48Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert) Published
Abstract [en]

In recent years, neuroscientific knowledge has been applied far beyond its context of emergence to explain human behaviour in general and to address a host of specific societal problems. In this article, we discuss the emerging research field of ‘neuropolitics’ that seeks to bring neuroscientific methods and findings to political science. Neuropolitics is investigated as a particular way of approaching political problems as located in the brain. We argue that neuropolitics research gives expression to a rationality of government that allows researchers to put forward policy prescriptions based on neuroscientific knowledge. Neuropolitics thus run the risk of leading to what we call a ‘pathologisation of politics’, that turns political problems into biological deviations.

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Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, 2018
Emneord
Neuroscience, neuropolitics, political rationality
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Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-48428 (URN)10.3384/cu.2000.1525.181031 (DOI)2-s2.0-85045770842 (Scopus ID)
Tilgjengelig fra: 2022-10-12 Laget: 2022-10-12 Sist oppdatert: 2024-07-04bibliografisk kontrollert
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