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The Case of the European CommissionHøjlund, Steven (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: What effect do evaluation systems have on the use of evaluation? This is the research question guiding this PhD thesis. By answering this research question as well as three sub-questions, the thesis addresses three important gaps in the evaluation literature: the first gap is that evaluation theory does a poor job explaining non-use and justificatory uses of evaluation. The second gap is that evaluation theory does not account for the systemic context of evaluation in its more general explanations of evaluation use. Finally, the literature does not account empirically for the micro-level of evaluation use in evaluation systems. The thesis draws inspiration from organisational theory and in particular organisational institutionalism. Organisational institutionalism explains organisational action and change to be driven by legitimacy-seeking organisational behaviour. Organisations seek to legitimise themselves in order to survive in their environment. This theory is applied to the concept 'evaluation system'. Hence, the assumption underlying this thesis is that organisations within an evaluation system are using evaluations to appear accountable rather than improve policies. The thesis investigates the European Union's evaluation system with a particular focus on the European Commission. This is done in four articles. The first article is a theoretical article introducing organisational institutionalism to the evaluation literature in order to explain non-use and justificatory uses of evaluations. The second article is a historical analysis of the development of the European Commissions evaluation practices. The third article is a case-based analysis of evaluation use in the European Commission. The fourth article is also an empirical article on policy learning from evaluations in three different Directorate-Generals in the European Commission. The methodology used in the empirical articles is qualitative content analysis and the data were more than a hundred Commission documents and 58 interviews with Commission staff. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9117
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A production network approachLindskow, Kasper (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: News publishers in the industrialized world are experiencing a fundamental challenge to their business models because of the changing modes of consumption, competition, and production of their offerings that are associated with the emergence of the networked information society. The erosion of the traditional business models poses an existential threat to news publishing and has given rise to a continuing struggle among news publishers to design digital business models that will be sustainable in the future. This dissertation argues that a central and underresearched aspect of digital news publishing business models concerns the production networks that support the co-production of digital news offerings. To fill this knowledge gap, this dissertation explores the strategic design of the digital news publishing production networks that are associated with HTML-based news offerings on the open Web. In order to do so, a theoretical model is developed that is suited for the analysis of the strategic design of business models, including the production networks that support them, in the sectors of the economy that are affected by networked informatization in general and in digital news publishing specifically. The theoretical model includes a business model construct that enables a detailed analysis of production networks and an integrated strategy theory that combines networked-based approaches to value creation and capture with Emerson's power-dependence theory in order to conceptualize both collaboration and competition strategies. In addition, a novel method is developed that can be used to collect and analyze very large amounts of data on the resource exchanges that take place between news publishers and their business partners. The method allows for systematic mapping of the flows of resources in digital news publishing ecologies and of the production networks that are associated with the co-production of digital news offerings. The theoretical model and methodology developed in the dissertation are used to explore the American digital news publishing ecology and the strategies that 41 different leading American news publishers use to design their production networks. In the analysis, the activities carried out by and resource flows between a total of 1,356 business partners and news publishers in the American digital news publishing ecology are identified and visualized. In addition, a fundamental architecture that is shared by all digital news publishing production networks and a typology of 9 different types of production networks are identified. Furthermore, it is found that the structure of the American digital news publishing ecology is highly asymmetric and gives rise to a number of specific strategic dilemmas for news publishers. Finally, 9 different types of strategies that news publishers use to design their production networks, each of which mediates the dilemmas they face in different ways, are identified. In the conclusion to the dissertation, the findings of the dissertation are discussed, put into perspective, and connected to the existing research on other elements in digital news publishing business models in order to bring us closer to a holistic theory of the strategic design of digital news publishing business models. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9284
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Security sector reform in Sierra LeoneAlbrecht, Peter Alexander (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis argues that security sector reform (SSR) has failed according to its own ambition of establishing a 'centrally governed state'. A primary reason for this failure is found in the concept of authority that state-building projects and much of the academic work that underpins it. Since the late 1990s, internationally supported efforts to make and consolidate peace in Sierra Leone have been synonymous with SSR. Support was given by the United Kingdom (UK) in particular to contain and ultimately overhaul the armed forces, which staged two coups in 1992 and 1997. Support was also provided to the central government to institute national security coordination and intelligence organizations, and to reestablish the Sierra Leone Police (SLP). The collapsed, but internationally recognized state was to be rebuilt, and security was seen as not only a prerequisite for this process to begin, but its very foundation. The first question of the thesis revolves around why the western universalist state concept came to guide SSR in Sierra Leone, and why it was considered of such fundamental importance to stability internationally. The second question revolves around how to conceptualize authority when actors such as paramount and lesser chiefs that may neither be categorized as state nor non-state are the primary makers of order in rural areas of the country. Speaking of the weakness or failure of a state is a way of describing what it is not, namely a centrally governed set of institutions that is able to make order within the territorial space that defines it. A focus on the state as an analytical concept does not, however, tell us much about how order is then made, and by whom it is made in Sierra Leone. The thesis rethinks what authority is in a way that does not privilege 'the state' as an analytical category, a tendency that has dominated much policy and academic thinking. The thesis' empirical basis of doing so is data relating to international policy-making processes, interviews among the key actors of Sierra Leone's SSR process, and ethnographic fieldwork in Peyima, a small diamond mining town in Kamara Chiefdom, Kono District. In a view of authority tied to 'the state' lies the conceptualization of a political entity, a bordered power container, which stands above, is detached from, and at the same time encompasses, controls and regulates society. In UK support of Sierra Leone's statebuilding efforts, the practices of traditional leaders and their productive effects in the justice and security field, and enforcing order, were acknowledged. However, failure to respond adequately to their central role in governing Sierra Leone's countryside came in two ways, both of which are related to concepts of the western universalist state that continue to guide SSR. The first failure was embedded in misrecognizing the resilience and productivity of local actors and institutions, and their authority to appropriate, interpret, translate and above all shape the elements of what was offered through SSR. The second failure came in not recognizing the hybrid nature of all actors in the justice and security field, based on the fact that they draw authority to act within the field from numerous sources across physical and symbolic space, in local and national domains. Hybridity is integral to state formation in Sierra Leone. It is foundational, and is historically grounded in the colonial era, articulating an infinite mixture of various forms of authority (from state legislation to status of autochthony and secret society membership). Inevitably, this order was reproduced by SSR, even if the aim of the international actors who supported this process of change had been to eradicate it. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8549
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A Genealogy of the Emergence and Development of Protestant Voluntary Social Work in Denmark as Shown Through the Cases of the Copenhagen Home Mission and the Blue Cross (1850 – 1950)Sevelsted, Anders Ludvig (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9535
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Hierarchies, Logics and Foundations of Social Order Seen Through the Prism of EU Social RightsMossin, Christiane (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: It has been the purpose of this dissertation to analyze a contemporary battlefield of law, the field of EU social rights, from a political-philosophical point of view. It is the conviction of the dissertation that law is deeply and inescapably conceptually connected with fundamental features of social order. Law and social order are not presumed to be identical, but to be mutually constitutive. The interrelations between the two do not merely concern the rights and obligations explicitly laid down in the law, but fundamental presumptions regarding the nature of human beings, overall purposes of social order, hierarchical and dynamical features of society and the possibility at all of regulation, its logics and sources of authority. On the basis of a historical-conceptual understanding of law according to which law, social structure and metaphysical presumptions are inescapably intertwined, the dissertation derives from the binding provisions of law certain essential features of social order. More precisely, the dissertation demonstrates that from a political philosophical point of view, EU social rights can be said to imply the contours of a particular social order. Significantly, the essential features in question are derived through detailed analyses of EU social rights - through critical investigations of definitions of right-holders, material scope, legal core concepts, exclusions and justifications, complexities and ambiguities of interpretation. The general point is the following: Political philosophical features of social order may not only be derived from the overall constitutional aspects of law (in the case of EU-law: fundamental principles inscribed in the Treaty; the constitutional architecture of EU-law), but are implied in the detailed material web of secondary law. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9111
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How the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark Came to Compete through their Knowledge Regimes from 1993 to 2007Møller Boje Rasmussen, Martin (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present PhD-dissertation " "Is Competitiveness a Question of Being Alike? How United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark came to compete through their Knowledge Regimes from 1993 to 2007" studies the ideas which policy research organizations such as ministries of economics, economic councils and different types of think tanks – or what Campbell and Pedersen recently have defined as a nations knowledge regime – holds about the international competition of nations and what a nations competitiveness consists in, as well as whether and how these ideas co-varies with different national knowledge regimes particular form and organization. The primary argument and research result is, that even if the ideas, which policy research organizations in United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark in the period from 1993 to 2007 holds, in many ways are similar, they nonetheless exhibit nationally distinct features and differences. In short, the PhD-dissertation demonstrates, that not only does the organization of knowledge regimes vary. So do the ideas they produce. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8972
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Institutionelt arbejde i den kommunale digitaliseringsprocesFederspiel, Sofie Blinkenberg (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling beskæftiger sig med institutionaliseringen af digitalisering i den danske kommunaladministration. At digitalisere vil i den sammenhæng sige at bruge informationsteknologi (IT) til strategisk udvikling af arbejdsgange, og digitalisering er derfor tæt forbundet med at skabe en organisation, der både er omstillingsparat, refleksiv og nytænkende. Selvom institutionalisering af digitalisering således er synonym med en radikal forandring af den kommunale administration, mangler der viden om, hvordan arbejdet med at institutionalisere digitalisering påvirkes af organisationsmedlemmernes forhold til IT: et forhold, som litteraturen tidligere har indikeret, kan have afgørende betydning for digitalisering. Afhandlingen bidrager med ny viden på området. Til det formål trækker afhandlingen på det neo-institutionelle begreb institutionelt arbejde, som giver mulighed for at belyse aktørernes rolle i institutionaliseringsprocesser. Afhandlingen baserer sig på et casestudie af to typiske danske kommunaladministrationer, hvoraf den ene er et resultat af kommunesammenlægning i forbindelse med kommunalreformen i 2007. Det empiriske grundlag består af kvalitative data i form af interviews, dokumentanalyser og mødeobservationer. Den indledende dataanalyse, som er inspireret af grounded theory, pegede på tre centrale analysetemaer i relation til afhandlingens fokus. Disse temaer, som lægger op til tre forskellige håndteringer af data og cases, danner grundlag for afhandlingens tre artikler. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8993
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An Embedded, Comparative Case Study of Municipal Waste Management in England And DenmarkDam, Sofie (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD concerns the potentials and challenges for conducting innovation in public-private partnerships (PPPs) towards the objective of transforming municipal waste management towards more sustainable systems. In recent years, local authorities have been met with intensified demands from the EU and national governments to change existing waste management systems from solutions based on disposal and recovery towards more recycling and prevention and at the same time deliver more efficient waste management services through the inclusion of private businesses. These two demands may to some degree be mutually supportive, but may also lead to challenges in the prioritization and development of new solutions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9169
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With Comparative and Multi-level Case Studies from Denmark and IrelandHelby Petersen, Ole (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This PhD dissertation studies national similarities and differences in policy and regulation of public-private partnerships (PPPs), with an empirical focus on Denmark and Ireland. The starting point and motivation for the study is the observation that whereas PPPs are often depicted in the academic literature and in policy practice as a globally disseminated governance scheme, in reality, a closer examination of the PPP reform landscape reveals significant differences in national governments' PPP policy and regulation and in the amount of actually implemented PPP projects. By comparing the initiatives taken by the Irish government, which has embraced PPPs, with those of the Danish government, which has been a PPP sceptic, this study inquires into the fundamental questions as to how, why and to what consequences some governments have developed widespread policy and regulation frameworks to support the implementation of PPPs, whereas others have been much more reluctant. The dissertation addressed four research questions: (i) what are the key actors, strategies and institutions that create policies and regulations for the formation of PPPs?; (ii) how did governments' PPP policies and regulations develop over time, and how can their similarities and differences be explained?; (iii) how do differing national policy and regulation frameworks serve to facilitate or hinder the formation of PPPs, exemplified by four case studies from the schools sector?; (iv) what framework conditions does the EU set for PPP initiatives at national and sub-national levels? The main aim of the dissertation is to study how and why national PPP policy and regulation frameworks developed over time. At the national government level, the study thus contains both diachronic and synchronic analysis. Furthermore, in line with previous research within what has been called the governance approach within PPP studies, policy and regulation are also seen as constitutive elements that tap into and set the general framework conditions and institutional 'rules of the game' for the realisation of concrete PPP projects. The comparative interest at the central government level is thus supplemented by an analysis (a) of the interplay between decisions about policy and regulation at the national level and the formation of concrete PPP projects, and (b) of the EU's role in regulating decisions about PPPs at national level and in relation to the formation of concrete PPP schemes. A main finding is that whereas academic PPP literature often portrays governments' rationales for resorting to PPPs in terms of achieving innovation, collaborative advantage, value-for-money, new market possibilities, improved risk sharing etc., the findings brought to the fore in this dissertation suggest that a primary objective indeed was to remove major public infrastructure investments from governments' balance sheets, and thereby reduce the pressure on public capital budgets and provide more infrastructure than would otherwise be possible. However, as the off balance sheet rationale has been shown to be largely false, because there is always a bill to pay in the long term, this raise a number of broader legitimacy and accountability issues, which the present PPP policy and regulation frameworks of governments do not seem to adequately address. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9114
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A processual and embedded explorationStelling, Christiane (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis addresses the need, development and management of trust in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), an issue that thus far has received only very little attention. For this purpose, the dissertation contributes with four separate articles, of which the first two explore the main concepts – PPPs and trust – while the last two present the empirical exploration of trusting in PPPs by drawing on four in-depth case studies. The exploration of the PPP concept in the first article focuses on the definitory and classificatory practices across disciplinary and professional fields and contributes with an inductive map of the dominant patterns. The review of PPP publications argues that the main divergence lies in the focus on two differing dimensions. While a first group focuses on PPPs as a new way of distributing responsibilities across public and private partners a second group defines PPPs as a new means for joint decision-making and interactive collaboration between public and private partners. For the thesis it is especially the second dimension – the relational - that becomes relevant when trust moves centre-stage. In the second article, the dissertation addresses trust conceptualizations in an interorganizational setting. The article argues for a more processual approach to (re)embed trust in time and space. Following, the paper develops a processual framework for studying interorganizational trusting as ever evolving, always embedded and not least rooted in individual experiences of organizational members from various organizational levels. Finally, the article highlights the constitutive importance of contingency not only creating the need for trust but also its precondition. It is because we experience the future as open (contingent) that we are in need and able to form trust, i.e. suspend doubts and form positive expectations about another's future behaviour despite he/she has the possibility for alternative actions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8942
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Positioning and Framing in Nascent Institutional ChangeGirschik, Verena C. (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This doctoral dissertation aims to understand how companies realize corporate responsibility—both how they perform corporate responsibility in particular local contexts and how they negotiate understandings of what corporate responsibility means. It builds on an inductive case study of the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, a company known for its remarkable investments in integrating societal objectives into its business model and promoting new ways of thinking about and doing business. The case inspired the overarching theoretical question how actors construct and legitimize new ideas and practices at the nascent stages of institutional change. To address this question, the dissertation develops a micro-sociological approach to institutional change that brings to light how actors struggle over meaning in power relations by focusing on processes of positioning and framing. The three articles in this dissertation unfold distinct yet interdependent processes of positioning and framing that constitute new ways of performing and understanding corporate responsibility. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9275
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The Case of U.S. Chambers of CommerceCrawford, Brett (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Much of the organizational institutionalism literature suggests that the phenomenon of interests is a central construct, however, portrays interests in an overly deterministic, rational, and liberal way. In this thesis, I challenge those views and suggest that interests are a complex and interdependent socially constructed phenomenon. Accordingly, interests represent an actor's recognition, perceived importance, and participation in a number of figurations and social games. Illustrated through the institution of U.S. chambers of commerce, I explore how chambers of commerce have withstood a changing American culture to become both the world's largest business federation and public-private partnership. Moreover, even as the United States represents the most liberal of liberal market economies, chambers of commerce represent a context where capitalists have set aside market competition and unified their interests to become one of the largest and most influential institutions in the world. Following a brief introduction of interests and chambers of commerce, this thesis begins with the first paper, which is a critical review of the phenomenon of interests within the organizational institutionalism literature. Tracing the conceptual variety of both the origins and functions of interests in institutional studies, I illustrate how an overly deterministic and rational view of interests is problematic. The critical review continues with a discussion of my critiques of the extant literature followed by an introduction of a less rational and calculative approach to interests by coupling Bourdieu's (1998) conceptualization of interests with Elias's (1978) sociology emphasizing figurations and social games. The three subsequent empirical papers test this approach to interests on macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of the institution of chambers of commerce. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8452
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On the Politics of Translation in Global GovernanceGrasten, Maj Lervad (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis is about the rule of law in global governance and the role of legal expertise. It is about how contested concepts, vague wordings and political promises combine with international legal expertise to shape political and social realities in the making of global order(s). To this end, the aim of the thesis is to problematize and scrutinize the meaning and doings of the rule of law as a key concept in present-day international law and politics. Drawing on the case of internationally administered rule of law reforms in post-conflict Kosovo, the main problem I address in the thesis is – given the ambiguity of the very meaning of the concept – how, why and when is the meaning of the rule of law 'fixed', stabilized and made knowable to serve as a source of justification for the authority of international experts in ruling the domestic legal and what are the political implications thereof? To address this problem, I adopt a practice-oriented, multi-sited ethnographic approach to reconstruct the different and often conflicting meanings that are inscribed into the concept of the rule of law by various international actors, in particular international lawyers, engaged in rule of law reforms in the period from the establishment of the UN administration in 1999 until today where an European Union (EU) rule of law mission exercises extensive powers within the legal field in Kosovo. The main argument of the thesis is that the practical meaning of the rule of law in global governance is constituted through struggles over drawing the boundary between 'law' and 'politics' in the quest towards constructing and enacting law's relative autonomy versus what is narrated and thus assessed as being social, political and moral influences. This plays out in the often mundane, everyday practices and ordinary language of international actors who are formally identified, authorized and justified to possess the professional knowledge – the particular expertise – that is required to solve the 'problem' of the rule of law and thus to translate it into what it should be in practice. Importantly, the separation and relationship between law and politics is not naturally given in practice and can therefore not be taken for granted. The boundary between the two realms is narrated and enacted differently by different actors for a particular purpose, in a given time and place. Indeed, inscribing meanings into the rule of law follows from enacting and inscribing a particular meaning into the boundary between law and politics. In sum, the construction of knowledge and meaning around the 'rule of law' unfolds in struggles over discursively fixing, momentarily stabilizing and thereby inscribing meaning into this boundary, which in turn would authorize a particular group of actors and their attending solutions to the problem over other actors and their solutions. The construction of knowledge and meaning around the 'rule of law', I will demonstrate in this thesis, is a result of how politics of translation play out in everyday practices of global governance. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9633
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A Neoinstitutional Analysis of the Emerging Organizational Field of Renewable Energy in ChinaHøyrup Christensen, Nis (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Today, China is the world leading investor in renewable energy. At the heart of this effort lies China's ability to shape markets through industrial policies. Through a neoinstitutional theoretical perspective this dissertation views China's efforts within renewable energy as the emergence of a new organizational field. Despite the importance of organizational fields as a key concept in the neoinstitutional literature, there is a lack of studies on exactly how they emerge. Throughout four articles this dissertation scrutinizes therefore the emergence of the field of renewable energy in China and the mechanisms driving this emergence. Firstly, the relation between state and market is examined, and it is argued that Chinese state interventions in markets, for instance through subsidies, are based in deeply rooted historic grounds. Thus, the article explains the general context in which the Party-state handles subsidized markets, like renewable energy. Secondly, the specific development of the idea of sustainable development, and how it evolves into an institutional logic of its own, is analysed. It is around this institutional logic that renewable energy emerges as a field. The key mechanism in play is the idea work of the Party state by which sustainable development is positioned in the Partystate discourse. Thirdly, subsidization of renewable energy in China is examined as an important feature of the increasing institutionalization of the organizational field. It is shown how negotiation between companies and Party-state is the vital mechanism by which subsidies are determined.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8627
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State-owned Enterprises as Institutional Market Actors in the Marketization of Public Service ProvisionA Comparative Case Study of Danish and Swedish Passenger Rail 1990–2015Christensen, Lene Tolstrup (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This doctoral thesis (PhD) explores from a public governance perspective the role of stateowned enterprises (SOEs) in an era of marketization of public service provision and thus contributes to the renewed academic interest in contemporary SOEs. It builds on an explorative comparative case study of DSB SOV and SJ AB in the marketization of passenger rail in Denmark and Sweden respectively from the 1990s to 2015. In the period both cases kept full state ownership and Sweden gradually exposed all services to competition whereas in Denmark with time competition was put on hold. The case study consists of document study and +50 interviews and is based on a historical institutionalist perspective on gradual change that emphasizes interpretation in the implementation between rule makers and rule takers as a driver of institutional change. It leads to the conceptualization of the SOE as an institutional market actor (IMA). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9410
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Filantropiens gensidighedsrelationer i teori og praksisMahncke, Henrik (Frederiksberg, 2016)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: De almennyttige fonde har gennem de seneste 15 år finansieret en lang række store bygge- og anlægsprojekter for de danske museer. Fondenes position er i denne periode blevet styrket ved en markant øget uddelingskapacitet og nye uddelingsmetoder i kombination med færre offentlige midler til disse byggerier. Det har skabt en ny dynamik på museumsområdet og flyttet rundt på rollefordelingen mellem staten, kommunerne, museerne og fondene. Denne ph.d.-afhandling afdækker disse markante udviklingstræk ved at undersøge de store gaver, som fænomen i et senmoderne samfund. Metaspørgsmålet er, hvordan de store gaver og nye former for uddelingspraksis ændrer den langsigtede relation mellem almennyttige fonde, staten og kommunerne. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9360
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En kortlægning af styringsmæssig kontekst, strategisk tilgang, samt anvendte redskaber og teknologier for udvalgte danske statslige styrelserFroholdt, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Siden begyndelsen af 1980erne har den offentlige sektor i Danmark, og flere andre vestlige lande, været genstand for en moderniseringsproces. En moderniseringsproces, der har ført til nye måder at tænke og bedrive offentlig administration og ledelse på, herunder anvendelsen af organisatorisk strategi i en offentlig kontekst. Formen, sådanne organisatoriske strategier antager i en offentlig kontekst, er dog i høj grad et uudforsket område, hvilket er omdrejningspunktet for nærværende afhandling og følgende fundamentale forskningsspørgsmål: Hvordan tager strategi og strategisk ledelse form i en dansk offentlig kontekst? For at besvare ovenstående forskningsspørgsmål, er der udviklet et konceptuelt framework, som tillader en analyse og kortlægning af specifikke variable med relevans for den form, strategi og strategisk ledelse antager i en offentlig kontekst. De variable, der anvendes som analytisk linse i det konceptuelle framework, vedrører en organisations styringsmæssige kontekst, strategiske tilgang samt anvendte redskaber og teknologier. Analysen og kortlægningen af den styringsmæssige kontekst trækker på en række forskningsmæssige bidrag omkring eksisterende styringsparadigmer og deres karakter. Den strategiske tilgang er analyseret og kortlagt med udgangspunkt i Whittingtons (2001) strategiske perspektiver samt yderligere forskningsmæssige bidrag vedrørende de enkelte perspektiver.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8700
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Exploring the Emergence, Consolidation and Reconfiguration of Legitimatory and Fiscal State-craftingCelik, Tim Holst (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Since the crisis-engrossed 1970s, and especially the 1990s, 'governance' has become a dominant concern and concept; notably, within particularly political science, a certain diagnosis explicitly or implicitly focused on a shift 'from government to governance' has become increasingly popular. This study examines the governance phenomenon of the post-1970/1990s period from a state-situated and historically informed perspective. Specifically, taking initial analytical departure in an approach of the early 1970s associated with James O'Connor, Jürgen Habermas and Claus Offe focused on the statesituated tension-filled functional relationship between legitimation and accumulation, the study both historically and theoretically reworks this approach and reapplies it for the post-1970s/1990s governance period. It asks whether and to what extent governance has served as a distinctive post- 1970s/1990s state-facilitated way of bridging/altering the tension-filled relationship between legitimation and fiscal accumulation in Western European liberal-capitalist democratic polities. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9481
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A critical assessment of Fair Trade through the examination of the Argentinean wine industryStaricco, Juan Ignacio (Frederiksberg, 2015)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This dissertation offers an assessment of Fair Trade's transformative potential through an empirical examination of the case of Fair Trade wine produced in Argentina and consumed in the United Kingdom. Guided by a dialectical understanding of the research process, the analysis is done at various levels of generality, offering both case-specific and universal arguments about the Fair Trade system as a whole. Theoretically, the dissertation develops a regulationist framework based on a critical engagement with the French Regulation Approach and the Amsterdam Project in International Political Economy. The proposed analysis of Fair Trade as a 'mode of regulation' makes possible: (i) an examination of specific ways in which this initiative institutionalizes key socioeconomic relations, (ii) a comparison of Fair Trade with the 'conventional' economy and (iii) a discussion of its concrete effects. The further exploration of Fair Trade's political and ideological dimensions sheds light on the reasons behind the system's current limitations. The analysis shows that Fair Trade offers very limited improvements compared to the conventional economy. Additionally, for the Argentinean wine industry, Fair Trade further marginalizes the most vulnerable groups. These findings, it is argued, are a consequence of Fair Trade's acritical acceptance of the main capitalist contradictions, which importantly limit the transformative aspirations of its supporters. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9226
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Justification and Critique, Emancipation and Coercion Towards the 'Active Society'Hansen, Magnus Paulsen (Frederiksberg, 2017)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Since the late 1980s, European welfare states and labour market regulation have gradually but radically been transformed into ways of underpinning a more "active society" where active usually entails paid work or activities, such as training and qualification, that aim towards work. The thesis investigates the transformation towards the 'active society' through the spectre of unemployment and how it is governed. Two puzzles in the transformations have motivated the inquiry: firstly, the co-existence of a plurality of different, and often contradictory, conceptions of who the unemployed are and why they are unemployed; and secondly, the co-existence of wills to emancipate the unemployed alongside the justification of using coercive measures towards them. This thesis argues that if we want to understand the varieties within the transformations, the "what?" question, it is necessary to address the "how?"; i.e., how transformations are legitimised. Here, ideas and morality are pivotal. Inspired by French pragmatic sociology (Boltanski and Thévenot), the ideas are approached as cities of unemployment that are mobilised to justify and criticise policies related to the governing of unemployment. In these situations where the question of what is the best way to govern unemployment is put to the test, cities of unemployment enable actors to prepare and qualify the reality of the situation for critique and justification. Each city of unemployment is founded on a principle with specific principles to try or test both those who govern and the subjects inhabiting each city, thus entailing a specific understanding of what emancipating the unemployed involves, i.e., what kind of moral subject the unemployed person is with what kind of needs and characteristics. The thesis thus asks which cities of unemployment are mobilised in contemporary reform processes of the governing of unemployment, how are the cities mobilised to justify and criticise, and how do the cities sediment into instruments and institutions governing the unemployed? URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9465
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Everything you wanted to know about your child's speech and language...from the perspective of a pediatric speech-language therapist.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Pictures, Autism, and Language: Using Pictures to Increase Your Child's Language
I was first introduced to autism spectrum disorders more then ten years ago in the form of a little boy with Asperger's Syndrome; he stole my heart and made me want to know so much more about the way he saw the world. Since that time, I've worked with countless families of children with autism. Their strength and dedication to their children never fail to amaze me.
The post I wrote for Joy's Autism Blog is about using pictures to help children with autism learn to use generative, creative language in the place of echolalia. You can find it here. Look for another post from me later this month about the early signs and symptoms of autism--information that is crucial for every parent of young children to have. Until then, enjoy poking around Joy's blog; she writes about her experiences as a mom, links up to other blogs and online resources about autism, and is just generally pretty darn cool.
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It is widely agreed that Robert Harbin was one of Magic's most innovative geniuses. He is the inventor of the Zig-Zag and other illusions that rank among the most performed stage effects of the twentieth century. However, this was merely the tip of Harbin's creative iceberg. In fact, he invented so many illusions, escapes and tricks of all types, they could not fit into one book. Hence, this handsome two-volume set.
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We already know that the four members of Slaughterhouse have been in the studio, recording their third album which will be their second for Shady Records/Interscope. But the group and label have formally announced it today along with the news that Just Blaze will serve as the executive producer.
Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Crooked and Royce Da 5'9" is spending the entire month of June with producers J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, araabMuzik and Just Blaze to create the album from scratch. According to Shady Records, "this isn't a send-tracks-around, and everyone-records-in-their-own-studio type of album."
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The Republican speaker of the Virginia House has ruled against a GOP-backed redistricting plan that was muscled through a divided Virginia Senate while a veteran black Democratic lawmaker was attending President Barack Obama's inauguration.
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On Jan. 21, Senate Republicans blindsided Democrats when they took advantage of the absence of Democratic Sen. Henry Marsh of Richmond to push through a plan creating a new black-majority Senate district and effectively strengthening Republicans' chances in several other districts. Marsh was attending President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington.
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I frequently talk to people who have "inherited" their genealogy from a relative. I fall into this category. I probably have mentioned this before, but it is worth reviewing. I had the usual casual contact with the idea of genealogy and family history while I was growing up. The most obvious manifestations of genealogy were several surname books in our home library, about branches of the ancestral lines. I was marginally familiar with these books, because I used them from time to time to try and figure out how I was related to some of the relatives that I met or knew about. One of my very distant relatives was a prominent leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and so I often got questions about how I was related to "President Tanner." Every so often, I would go back and try and review the connection.
In about 1982, I was given an assignment, along with everyone else in the Church, to update my family history and submit the four generation family group records to the Church. Up to this time in my life, I had been told repeatedly, that "all my genealogy had been done" either by my maternal Great-grandmother or by my paternal Great-grandmother. It is a long story about how I finally got involved which I will not repeat here, but suffice it to say, it took me only a short time doing research to figure out that the story I had been told about all the "genealogy being done" was not true. Finding out that one fact, starting me on my 30+ year journey that brings me to where I am today.
The main issue that I was confronted with was that the dates, places and names I inherited from my genealogically-inclined relatives formed a huge pile, almost two feet high, of family group records. I systematically went through each family group record for consistency and verified anything that appeared doubtful. That took about 15 years.
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ONARCHITECTURE- <i>Way</i> complicated: Courthouse dust still swirling
The Problem: On March 30, 2006 the north-east corner of the Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court building collapsed as workers dug near its foundation. PHOTO BY DAVE MCNAIR
While the actual dust from last year's collapse of the old Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court building on High Street has long since settled, it appears the dust of the legal and financial argument over whose fault it was is still swirling.
"This one is way complicated," says Board of Architectural Review vice chair Syd Knight, "not only with structural concerns, but with legal and financial concerns as well." Indeed, BAR chair Fred Wolf echoes Knight's comments.
Court Square watchers have noticed that the scaffolding that had been securing the collapsed corner of the courthouse has been removed. After an engineering study, BAR review, and further negotiations between the contractor, Kenbridge Construction, and the City, the $12.4 million renovation project got under way again in mid-June. However, according to city attorney Craig Brown, the argument over who should bear responsibility for the collapse is far from over.
As Brown told the Hook in May, it's the City's position that the collapse was the fault of Kenbridge and its subcontractors. Brown says they had hoped to work things out in mediation.
"But that failed," he says. While the renovation is moving forward, it appears the City and Kenbridge could be headed for a showdown.
"At some point, [Kenbridge] will present us with a bill," says Brown. "...and we will decline to pay it. Then we'll have to take it from there."
As Brown points out, there are a number of parties involved in the argument, including the City, the County, Kenbridge, its subcontractors, and an engineering consultant.
"Obviously, all those parties have insurance companies," says Brown. "It will all have to be sorted out."
Meanwhile, the practicality of finishing the project comes with its share of controversy as well. At first glance, it appears the collapsed corner has been meticulously repaired, but a closer look reveals that something's missing.
Rather than repairing the corner, the City elected to demolish the entire north end of the building, 22 feet in all.
Ironically, the solution to repairing the collapse was to demolish more of the building than the collapse destroyed.
"Removing the entire back was presented to the BAR as the best of a number of unattractive options," says Knight. "Sure, in a perfect world, we would have preferred that they rebuild."
"Cost was a big driver," admits City capital projects director Mike Mollica. "It was more economical to demolish the back of the building."
However, as Mollica explains, the chosen demo plan (which was the chosen plan of the structural engineers who studied the building, he says) isn't going to alter the look of the building all that much. The original design called for the north wall to be included "inside" the building anyway, he says, as new construction will extend the back of the building. He also says the demo option will help keep the project on schedule.
"Since the back of the building is going to be partially obscured by the new construction," Knight says, "removing and replacing the remainder seemed to be a reasonable compromise."
Neither Mollica or Brown can say what the eventual cost might be, or who will be responsible for it, pending resolution of the question of responsibility for the collapse, but for now Mollica says the $12.4 contract with Kenbridge hasn't changed.
At a BAR meeting earlier this year, one concerned citizen suggested that demolishing the courthouse would have been a better idea than "dragging it out for years" trying to save it. As the citizen pointed out, the building was in terrible shape. Indeed, lots of people said they were not surprised that it collapsed, since only the thin brick facade was being preserved, a facade so fragile that one could see light between the bricks at the time of the collapse.
Preservationists haven't been happy about the project either. While they would never have recommended demolition, they found the facade-saving effort inadequate. In a letter to city councilors last year, Piedmont Preservation used the courthouse collapse to criticize a process they call "facadism."
"A new building fashioned out of scavenged rubble is not a historic structure," they wrote. "It's a loss against which no insurance policy can protect."
Indeed, according to Mollica, the salvaged brick on the site will be used to make the side walls blend in with the new construction.
If the city can navigate smoothly through all the complicated legal, financial, and structural obstacles ahead, Mollica says the new courthouse could be finished by December 2008.
The Solution: In June 2007, the City chose to demolish 22 feet off the back of the courthouse rather than rebuild the collapsed corner.


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It's the dog days of summer and that means you've earned a vacation. Enter to win a getaway to the historic Hotel Monteleone in the exciting city of New Orleans.
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Magnet Schools Assistance (V-C)
The Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) provides grants to establish and operate magnet schools in school districts that are under a court-ordered or federally approved voluntary desegregation plan to eliminate, reduce, or prevent minority group isolation in elementary and secondary schools. For nearly four decades, magnet schools have been an important element in American public education, offering innovative programs not generally available in local schools and providing opportunities for students to learn in racially diverse environments. A recent study of 1998 MSAP grantees found that the funding provided by MSAP enabled magnet projects to support planning and promotional activities related to their academic programs and services; add specially hired staff to support and enhance school instruction; and provide focused training in program areas or educational methods for teachers and other staff.
WHAT'S NEW--The No Child Left Behind Act
Focuses on What Works
- Supports federal technical assistance and dissemination of successful programs. Expands national activities to include technical assistance and dissemination activities. Requires the U.S. Department of Education to collect and disseminate information on successful magnet school programs.
- Builds a grantee's capacity to operate magnet school programs. Expands the uses of funds to include professional development in order to build capacity to operate magnet school programs after the grant period has ended.
Reduces Bureaucracy and Increases Flexibility
- Provides more flexibility in administering magnet school programs. A district may use their grant to serve students who are not enrolled in the magnet program.
- Increases flexibility in designing magnet schools. Enables grantees to have flexibility in designing magnet schools for students in all grades.
- Allows more funds to be used for planning. Increases the cap on the amount of funds that may be used for planning, from 10 percent to 15 percent in a project's third year.
How It Works
The Magnet Schools Assistance Program is a discretionary grant program that awards funds to school districts (or consortia of districts) to support magnet schools that are part of an approved desegregation plan and that are designed to bring students from different social, economic, ethnic, and racial backgrounds together. An applicant's desegregation plan may be either a required plan (for example, a plan required by a federal court) or a voluntary plan that has been adopted by the applicant and approved by the secretary of education as adequate under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Funding priority will be given to applicants that demonstrate the greatest need for assistance, propose to carry out new or significantly revised magnet school programs, and propose to select students to attend magnet school programs by methods such as a lottery, rather than through academic examination.
Key Requirements
Districts (or a consortium of local school districts) that receive an award must use it to reduce, eliminate, or prevent minority group isolation, increase student academic achievement, continue the magnet school program after assistance is no longer available, and implement services to improve the academic achievement of all students attending the magnet school program. Grantees also must undertake congressionally specified activities such as employing highly qualified teachers, encouraging greater parental decision-making and involvement, and providing equitable consideration for placement in the program.
How It Achieves Quality
In their application for program funds, applicants must ensure that they will employ highly qualified teachers, and carry out a high-quality education program that will encourage greater parental decision-making and involvement. Furthermore, program funds used to employ teachers and acquire books, materials, and equipment. Funds may be spent on supporting activities that are directly related to improving student academic achievement based on the state's challenging academic content standards and student achievement standards or activities that are directly related to improving student reading skills or knowledge of mathematics, science, history, geography, English, foreign languages, art, or music. Funds may be spent on activities to improve vocational, technological, and professional skills.


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Hay Caravan Park is located 1km East of the Sturt and Cobb Highway junction.
The gateway to outback NSW, Hay Caravan Park is the ideal stop-over point for those travelling between Sydney and Adelaide and those en-route to Queensland.
Situated only 100m from the picturesque Murrumbidgee River and surrounded by the vast open Hay Plains our park offers accommodation to suit all travellers and budgets. Our grassed drive-thru powered and unpowered sites, drive-thru ensuite sites, ensuite and non-ensuite cabins and camp sites, are all set in a bush-like setting adding to the pleasant and relaxing atmosphere.
EXPLORE OUR HERITAGE as Hay has many special places for you to visit, from our spectacular 1892 Courthouse to our imposing Railway station, evocative cemetery and much loved Sunbeam Cobb & Co coach.
TAKE A NATURE WALK along the banks of the Murrumbidgee, an ideal environment for bird watching.
ENJOY OUR RIVER fishing, skiing or canoeing. The Murrumbidgee River is a haven for activity.
Come and stay at Hay Caravan Park and visit Hay's unique landscape and attractions. Experience first hand the richness of our cultural heritage and the warmth of our pure country hospitality.
Hay Caravan Park is owned and operated by Trevor & Margaret Robb. We look forward to welcoming you.


text: Bruce Arians was named the Arizona Cardinals head coach. The more research I did on Arians, the more I like the hire. This guy's résumé looks like the greater metro Phoenix phone book. His reputation precedes him, indeed. I talked to many coaches, players, analysts and personnel men in the National Football League and their reports are filled with effusive praise for Arians. It's difficult to maintain a sterling reputation when you work with people in a win at all cost environment, where tempers flare and words are filtered through clenched teeth, but Arians has some how pulled it off. This guy's a coach at heart, not an administrator. Arians' peers tell me that he will get up in your face and keep you accountable and then be the first guy that hugs you as you walk off the field. He wants you to get it right. He cares about the success of his players and wants them to care about it the way he does. Arians does it his way. One personnel man told me Arians the "definition of a real ball coach" and players have said "he knows what he wants and will not back down from anybody."The only negative I could find on Bruce Arians was his age. He's 60 years old and although he has head coaching experience, it was on an interim basis. But after talking with people that would know, Arians has no problem generating energy, passion and a fist in the air. Time will tell on whether or not Bruce Arians will be a good head coach but if the reviews of his ability, knowledge and worthiness are any indication, the Cardinals did well. – / 15 Top Stories Here's what I found:Bruce Arians is a "great guy." In all the conversations that I had, this was the central theme. It's not a surprise to those I talked to that Arians took over for Chuck Pagano when Pagano was diagnosed with leukemia and kept the team focused and motivated. Arians was "made for that job" and he constantly reminded Colts players of their mission: play hard enough to get into the postseason so Pagano could coach them in a playoff game. This, believe it or not, is a critical dynamic for Arizona. I believe in stability and consistency but you'll never have that stability and consistency if the organization doesn't hire a guy they can live with and grow with. According to those I spoke with, Arians is that guy.Bruce Arians is a Tom Moore disciple. Tom Moore was the offensive coordinator for the Indianapolis Colts when Peyton Manning was a rookie. As we all know, Manning and Moore went on to change the landscape of the NFL for the next 11 years and Arians was right in the middle of that schematic quake. Arians is smart and has a creative mind. Some believe he was the architect behind the destruction, devastation and demolition of NFL defenses that saw a QB throw for over 4,000 yards, had two 1,000-yard receivers and a 1,000-yard running back. His fingerprints are all over one of the most brilliant concepts the league has ever known: simplexity. 0 Comments Share Grace expects Greinke trade to have emotional impact The 5: Takeaways from the Coyotes' introduction of Alex Meruelo Derrick Hall satisfied with D-backs' buying and selling Former Cardinals kicker Phil Dawson retires Simplexity, in a gross generality, involves simple schemes with complex execution. In a paradigm of personnel groups, formations, movement and offensive coordinator sleight of hand, Manning, Moore and Arians developed an offense that included four running plays, 10 passing plays, one personnel group and one formation. The genius of the scheme was that those running it didn't care if they looked like a genius. But simplexity also included the likes of Manning, Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark and Edgerrin James. The Cardinals don't have that kind of talent but the remnants of that offense still linger in the scheme Arians will bring to Arizona. Arians' reputation swirls around the core belief he is quarterback sensei, a developer/producer of the most coveted commodity an NFL franchise can have. Since 1998, 15-years later, Arians has worked with four quarterbacks: Manning, Tim Couch, Ben Roethlisberger and Andrew Luck. This guy knows quarterbacks and what it takes to be a quarterback in the National Football League. This was a major plus in the pros column while interviewing with the Cardinals. The quarterback position is going to be job one for Arians and his staff. The only thing more clouded and convoluted than the Cardinals quarterback position are found in space and Arians has proven he can bring rookie quarterbacks along and make young quarterbacks better.


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Kicking off the weekend with a little movie-inspired silliness, artist Austin Richards and copyrighter Des Creedon have teamed up to answer the question: "What happens when you remove a single letter from a movie title?" Their Removies posters are goofy, and wouldn't make half-bad movies themselves.
Richards and Creedon didn't invent the idea of inventing a new movies by removing one letter from a movie title, but they did add their own movie posters, complete with an appropriate tagline. Jurassic Ark could be a blockbuster of a Biblical epic, but I suspect I'm not the only one who would watch eight Harry Otter movies. Check out their site for more goofy movie posters, including Rise of the Plane of the Apes and The Men Who Stare at Oats.
Removies [via Laughing Squid]