Managing Nordic Local Governments : Paradoxes and Challenges of the Municipal Chief Executive Officer (Palgrave Studies in Sub-national Governance)

Hlynsdóttir, Eva Marín (EDT)/ Hansen, Morten Balle (EDT)/ Cregård, Anna (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2025/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 250 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783031600715

Full Description

This open access book examines the roles of municipal chief executive officers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst it has long been recognised that local authorities in these countries are often more autonomous than most other local authorities around the world, we still lack an integrated overview of leadership in Nordic local government, and the development of its top administrative management. This book ameliorates this lack of knowledge by providing a thorough, extensive and updated assessment of the role of municipal chief executive officers in the five Nordic states, as well as their interactions and relations with internal and external actors. Comparative in nature, it will appeal to all those interested in local and urban governance, public administration, public management, and leadership studies.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction the Nordic municipal chief executive officer(Morten Balle Hansen) .- Chapter 2. Demands, constraints, and choices of Nordic municipal CEOs: A Conceptual Framework (Morten Balle Hansen).- Chapter 3. The Nordic local government model (Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir).- Chapter 4. The Danish municipal chief executive officer revisited  (Morten Balle Hansen).- Chapter 5. The slow transition of the Finnish council-manager model (Siv Sandberg).- Chapter 6. The special case of the Icelandic municipal chief executive officer (Eva Marín Hlynsdóttir).- Chapter 7. The Norwegian municipal chief executive officer anno 2022 (Dag Olaf Torjesen).- Chapter 8. 25 years of stability and change: The role of the Swedish MCEO (Anna Cregård).- 9. Conclusions.