Local Administration

In this chapter deals with the organizational development which local administration has gone through. Historically the municipal “core” administration has been “path-dependently” marked by a legal rule-guided hierarchical administrative structure. Since the early 1990s the New Public Management (NPM)-inspired “New Steering Model” (NSM) has been introduced to rectify the traditional (“Weberian”) administrative structure by adopting managerialist concepts and maxims such as output-based performance management, outsourcing. Subsequently in combining traditional and NSM-derived elements local authorities have moved towards a “Neo-Weberian” administrative scheme.