Inaugural Lecture: Professor Karl Löfgren |
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Public Administration – Innovations, Policy, and People
Karl Lofgren’s research agenda resides in the public administration space. In his inaugural lecture he shares some of his academic experiences from various jurisdictions based on three different themes: Innovations, Policy, and People. The innovation theme does not only cover his interest in digital platforms in politics and public administration, as well as democratic innovations in local decision-making. His interest in policy covers empirical studies of agenda-setting and implementation on national level and the role of evidence in policymaking. Finally, the theme around people revolves around his more recent research on the rise of a new public bureaucracy in public sector organisations. In the end, the three themes are pulled together with some more general observations of the current state of the research field and its relationship to practice. |