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Mediated Democracy
August 24, 2005, Danish Architecture Center, Strandgade 27B, DK-1401 Copenhagen
Participation is free. Registration is required no later than August 15, aykj@hum.ku.dk
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Abstract
Hans Krause Hansen & Dorte Salskov-Iversen: Global Interconnectedness: Local Authorities and Transnational Networking
This presentation sets out to investigate public sector organizational change and managerial innovation in the so-called network society. It analyzes how knowledges of modernization and innovation assembled and orchestrated by transnational networks, can become the currency that for very different reasons connects very different local authorities. We are particularly concerned with how these authorities, via their networking activities in the field of e-governance, translate ideas of modernization and innovation into organizational arrangements, creating crosscutting spaces of interconnectedness and alignment between them. Indeed, for a brief period of time, these authorities experience a community of destiny, as they all depend on the legitimacy that their common efforts in pursuance of e-modernization generate in their respective local innovation endeavours. It is our contention that the exertion of governmental and managerial authority increasingly depends on the creation of such globalizing webs, as they facilitate the construction, negotiation and legitimacy of political authority. Empirically, the presentation draws on a survey of the global connectedness of Danish local authorities and on a number of more detailed studies of selected local authorities in Denmark and abroad, charting some of the transnational networks that they are locked into, and their reasons for engaging in these activities.
About the speakers
Hans Krause Hansen is Associate professor at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School, where he is currently Academic Director of the Business, Language and Culture Studies Program.
Hans’ research areas include Public Management, Governance and Globalization Studies, and Latin American Studies.
Dorte Salskov-Iversen is Associate professor and currently Head of Department of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School. Dorte’s research areas include Public Management, Organization and Discourse Studies, Governance and Globalization Studies.
Recent joint publications include: ‘Remodelling the Transnational Political Realm: Partnerships, Benchmarking Schemes and the Digitalization of Governance’. In: Alternatives, Volume 30, Number 2, 2005
’Globalizing Webs: Translation of Public Sector e-Modernization’. In: Czarniawska, Barbara and Sévon, Guje (eds.) (2005 – forthcoming), Global Ideas (Brussels: Liber)
‘Managerialised Patterns of Political Authority: Partners, Peddlers and Entrepreneurial People’. In: Critical Quarterly Vol. 44, No 3 Autumn 2002
Hansen, Hans Krause, Langer, Roy, Salskov-Iversen, Dorte: ‘Politisk Kommunikationsledelse’. In: Pedersen, Dorthe (ed.) (2004), Offentlig ledelse i managementstaten (København: Forlaget Samfundslitteratur).
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Associate Professor Hans Krause Hansen
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