Democratizing Public Management

Marta Strumińska-Kutra is a sociologist at VID Specialized University, Norway and Kozminski University, Poland. Her areas of expertise include governance, public disputes, corporate social responsibility, public administration, sustainable innovation, and the methodology of critical and participatory research.

• 1. Practice-Oriented Reflection on Governance.- 2. Metagovernance, Governance, and Learning.- 3. Governance Learning from an Institutional Perspective.- 4. How Framing Transforms Governance: Public Dispute over the Closure of Three Small Schools in a Rural Community.- 5. Public Administration Leaders as Institutional Entrepreneurs: Dispute over the Location of a Marketplace.- 6.  Institutionalization of Governance and the Transition from 'Fake' Learning to 'Real' Learning: Dispute over the Modernization of a Wastewater Treatment Plant and an Incineration Plant.- 7. Governance Failure and Social Trust: Dispute over Building a Flood Prevention System.- 8. Towards a Practice-Based Theory of Governance Learning and Institutionalization: A Cross-Case Analysis.- 9. Making Social Sciences Matter for Public Administration and Public Policy.