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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
    The @journal of political philosophy 10 (2002), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1467-9760
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Philosophy , Political Science
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
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  • 2
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK; Malden, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd/Inc.
    Public administration 82 (2004), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: This article gives a broad overview of Norwegian research on public administration over the past 40 years. The main picture that emerges is that a Norwegian public administration built primarily on Webernian principles has lost some but not all these original properties. It describes a research tradition based on organizational theory and democratic theory. It also paints a picture of public administration as integrated into a complex network of domestic political institutions, public agencies, organized interests and clients, as well as extensive European and international networks. It shows how a strong theoretical tradition, based on bounded rationality, is supplemented by different types of institutional theories and increased theoretical pluralism. Finally, the paper underlines the importance of considering public administration not simply from an internal technical viewpoint, but of placing the discipline in a wider political and democratic context.
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  • 3
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Public administration 80 (2002), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: Administrative policies and practices may evolve and change slowly and incrementally or they may be transformed intentionally. Intentional efforts to change administrative policy by transforming the structure, processes, or personnel of public sector organizations define an active administrative policy. Ideally, an active administrative policy takes as given that the organizational form to be used is open to choice, that administrative goals are clear, that a tight coupling exists between ends and means, that different organizational forms have different effects, and that there are criteria that may be used to assess those effects. This article focuses on the fulfilment of these preconditions in the three national contexts – Norway, Sweden and the United States of America – in order to determine the relevance of a transformative perspective for understanding the process of administrative change. We examine what impact constraints like polity features, historical-institutional traditions and external pressure, particularly through popular international administrative doctrines like New Public Management ideas and financial crises, have on the possibilities to enhance an active national administrative policy.
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    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishers Ltd
    Public administration 79 (2001), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: This article uses three perspectives to explain the radical economic and state sector reforms undertaken in New Zealand starting in 1984. We interpret the reforms using a rational-comprehensive perspective, a garbage can perspective and a modified garbage can perspective identified in the work of John Kingdon. With New Zealand as an illustrative case, we explore the conditions under which radical reform is possible, the factors governing the adoption of reforms, and the impact on the reform process of a country's historical and cultural traditions. Our analysis emphasizes the import of a package of ready-made solutions, strong advocates (particularly a well-placed policy entrepreneur) who attach the solutions to a problem, and the existence of a ‘window of opportunity’ for adoption of the reforms. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of adopting reforms that run counter to a nation's long-established traditions.
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  • 5
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    Electronic Resource
    Boston, USA and Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishers Inc.
    Governance 14 (2001), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1468-0491
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science
    Notes: Three interwoven change elements characterize New Public Management: substantial horizontal and vertical specialization, substituting an integrated sector model for a fragmented functional model, and extensive use of contracts as part of a “make the manager manage” kind of incentive system. This article discusses the effects and implications of these reform elements on political-democratic processes in general, and on political, administrative, and public enterprise leadership roles more specifically. Examples from Norway and New Zealand illustrate the discussion.
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Public administration 81 (2003), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: Inspired by New Public Management, many countries have changed their central public apparatus from an integrated to a more segregated structural model. A central element in this process is structural devolution and the establishment of new or reorganized state-owned companies with increased business autonomy and new formal control systems. This paper focuses on how this development, as exemplified by the case of Norway, is affecting the role of central executive political and administrative leaders. The study, based on elite interviews, shows that corporatization has made the role of central leaders more complex and ambiguous and undermined traditional political control. We interpret this development from a transformative perspective, underlining how structural devolution is filtered through the dynamic context of environmental pressure and internal structural and cultural factors; in addition, experiences from New Zealand are used to contrast the Norwegian case.
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Public administration 81 (2003), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1467-9299
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Political Science , Economics
    Notes: Any account of Norwegian governance must engage with four different state traditions (Olsen 1988): the sovereign rationality–bounded or centralised state, the institutional state, the corporatist–pluralist state and the supermarket state. The first three traditions are historically interconnected, while the supermarket state is a fundamental and recent challenge to them. These traditions have co–existed in different combinations and their significance has changed several times, since the Constitution of 1814. In this article, first, I outline each tradition, tracing its historical roots, dominant actors and the competing definitions and interpretations. Second, I discuss the problems or dilemmas that confronted these traditions and the reforms enacted in response to them. Finally, I assess the consequences of these reforms. I focus on the post–World War II period. I finish by discussing the dynamic interdependence of the different state traditions.
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    Springer
    World journal of surgery 17 (1993), S. 220-225 
    ISSN: 1432-2323
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Résumé Chez environ un tiers des patients ayant eu une intervention chirurgicale lourde avec des suites simples, on constate une sensation de fatigue importante et croissante durant le premier mois post-opératoire. L'asthénie post-opératoire est corrélée à l'importance du traumatisme opératoire, mais est indépendante de la durée de l'anesthésie générale et de l'acte chirurgical, ou de l'état nutritionnel pré-opératoire, de l'âge et du sexe. L'asthénie est aussi corrélée à la détérioration post-opératoire des paramètres nutritionnels et la diminution de l'adaptation cardiaque à l'effort. De plus la diminution de la force musculaire et de l'endurance après une intervention est liée à l'asthénie post-opératoire alors que les facteurs psychologiques sont de moindre importance. Ces constatations suggèrent que l'asthénie post-opératoire pourrait être sous la dépendance de la réponse endocrinienne et métabolique à la chirurgie, de l'amélioration de l'apport nutritionnel ou de l'immobilisation, mais le rôle respectif de ces différents facteurs reste à déterminer. Jusque là, les mesures thérapeutiques prises pour lutter contre l'asthénie post-opératoire doivent viser à réduire la réponse à l'aggression chirurgicale, à traiter efficacement la douleur post-opératoire pour faciliter la mobilisation et l'exercice physique, ainsi qu'à améliorer l'apport nutritionnel post-opératoire.
    Abstract: Resumen La cirugía mayor no complicada es seguida de una sensación pronunciada de fatiga, la cual se extiende durante el primer mes postoperatorio en aproximadamente una tercera parte de los pacientes. La fatiga postoperatoria se relaciona con el grado de severidad del trauma quirúrgico, pero no se relaciona con la duración de la anestesia general o de la cirugía o con el estado nutricional preoperatorio, la edad o el sexo. La fatiga también aparece correlacionada con el deterioro postoperatorio de los parámetros nutricionales y con la inadecuada adaptación de la frecuencia cardiaca durante el ejercicio. Además, la disminución postoperatoria del vigor muscular se relacionan con la fatiga potoperatoria, en tanto que los factores psicológicos son de menor importancia. Estos hallazgos sugieren que la fatiga postoperatoria es mediada por la respuesta endocrina-metabólica a la cirugía, la alterada ingesta nutricional o la inmovilización, pero el valor relativo de estos factores aún está por establecerse. Hasta entonces, las medidas terapéuticas contra el desarrollo de fatiga postoperatoria deben ser orientadas a reducir la respuesta al estrés quirúrgico, al tratamiento efectivo del dolor para facilitar la movilización y el ejercicio, así como a mejorar la ingesta nutricional postoperatoria.
    Notes: Abstract Uncomplicated major surgery is followed by a pronounced increased feeling of fatigue extending throughout the first month in about one-third of patients. Postoperative fatigue correlates with the degree of surgical trauma but is not related to duration of general anesthesia and surgery or to preoperative nutritional status, age, or sex. Fatigue also correlates with postoperative deterioration in nutritional parameters and impaired adaptability of heart rate during exercise. Furthermore, a postoperative decrease in muscle force and endurance is related to postoperative fatigue, whereas psychological factors are of minor importance. These findings suggest postoperative fatigue to be mediated by the endocrine-metabolic response to surgery, impaired nutritional intake, or immobilization, but the relative role of these factors remains to be established. Until then, therapeutic measures against the development of postoperative fatigue should aim at reducing the surgical stress response, effective treatment of pain to facilitate mobilization, and exercise to increase postoperative nutritional intake.
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