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Implementation of Modernization: Paradoxes in the Public Control of Higher Educational Institutions ‐ The Case of Denmark
Author(s) -
Hansen Hanne Foss
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1990.tb00103.x
Subject(s) - modernization theory , control (management) , public sector , political science , public administration , relation (database) , process (computing) , perspective (graphical) , resistance (ecology) , public policy , management , economics , computer science , law , ecology , database , artificial intelligence , biology , operating system
In Denmark, the public sector is currently undergoing modernization. New organizational structures, new forms of control and changed economic conditions are the challenges to public organizations in the 1980s. In this article the barriers to the implementation of modernization are discussed in relation to the higher‐educational system. The conclusion is that the most prominent barrier to the modernization process is the planning philosophy of general public‐sector policy and educational policy of the 1970s, and not institutional resistance. Thus, implementation processes need to be discussed not only from top‐down and bottom‐up perspectives but also from a more horizontal perspective.