My research is aimed, primarily, at the newest tendencies in the public sector and the rationales behind these. I am especially occupied with the formation of discourses about public management and how the latter changes the public sector and its boundaries. Furthermore, I am concerned with how conditions for management and governing are changing, and, finally, what defines the environment of political communication. I have built a solid and deeply founded knowledge of the unique models of management and governance in the public sector, of the public sector’s increasingly market-oriented behaviour, which has contributed to the growing inclusion of the private sector into the political decision-making systems. Additionally, I have profound insight in current changes of structural ties between welfare systems on one side and the economy, politics and mass media on the other.

Books:

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, 2008: Partnerships: Machines of possibilities, Policy Press, Bristol

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, 2008: Legende magt, Hans Reitzels Forlag, København.

Articles:

Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels, Hvem er Yum-Yum? : Tegneseriestaten i svøb. I: Dansk Sociologi. 2009 ; vol. 20, nr. 2, s. 9-38

Åkerstrøm Andersen, Niels, The world as will and adaptation : The interdiscursive coupling of citizens´ contracts. I: Critical Discourse Studies. 2008 ; vol. 5, nr. 1, february. s. 75-89.

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