STV9411 - Organisational Theory Approaches to the Study of Public Policy and Administration

Short description:

The course aims at giving an overview of some organisation theory approaches and their application in empirical research. One key focus is on explaining organizational and institutional change. Another is on the effects of organisational and institutional change. How do organisations' structure, institutionalisation, demography and locus affect actual decision behaviour? Empirical examples are mainly drawn from the executive branch of government at the national, supranational and local level.

Lecturers: Course leaders: - Professor Tom Christensen, Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, and Rokkan Centre, University of Bergen - Professor Morten Egeberg, Department of Political Science and ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo Other lecturers:- Johan P. Olsen, ARENA, University of Oslo - Åse Gornitzka, Department of Political Science and ARENA, University of Oslo