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Abstract:
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In Denmark, as in many other welfare states, we strongly believe that problems
within the public sector can be solved by means of better management. For quite
some years it has been assumed that management leads to more control over and
better quality of welfare. Politicians and public servants have therefore been
concerned with how the individual hospital, nursing home and school can develop its
management. This has created a somewhat strange problem: How is it possible from
a position at the top of a governing hierarchy to create management capacity from
below?
This thesis is about how Danish local government, municipalities, have developed
understandings of governing relations between themselves and the public school
over the last 40 years. The thesis tracks how municipalities have gradually assigned
organizational independence to the individual school and increased their
expectations of its self-management.... |
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