Welfare Administration Reform Between Coordination and Specialization

Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid

International Journal of Public Administration, 2013, vol. 36, issue 8, 556-566

Abstract: This article identifies transboundary coordination practices and related modes of specialization in welfare administration reforms. We describe how the 2005 reform of the welfare administration in Norway started as a process of integration involving merger and partnership, but later, following the 2008 reorganization, introduced re-centralization and re-specialization. The main research questions are how we can explain this change of administrative reform? Why was the integrative administrative reform not sustainable and reorganization through re-specialization seen as a better answer to the “wicked issues” of welfare services? To answer these questions we apply a structural-instrumental perspective and a cultural-institutional perspective.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2013.772628

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