Finnish Public Administration

Elias Pekkola is University Lecturer and Head of Unit  in the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland Jan-Erik Johanson is Professor in the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland Mikko Mykkänen is University Instructor in the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland

• 1: Introduction to Nordic public administration.- Part 1: Structures and Space.- 2: Defining polity: Finnish politico-administrative system.- 3: City-regionalization, local democracy and civic participation.- 4: Government of government: How and by whom the government is governed?- 5: Local government and autonomy.- 6: Constructing the Finnish constitutional doctrine on regional self-government.- 7: Public financial management: budgeting and accountability.- 8:Performance management in the Finnish government: reflections and future directions from the perspectives of hybridity and sustainability.- 9: Public service systems: meaningful public service.- Part 2: Process and actors.- 10: Social and health care policy: taming complexities?- 11: Nordic environmental state in the making? The difficult transformation to sustainable practices.- 12: Higher education policy: accountable academia.- 13: Landscapes of knowledge production. education policy and diminishing inequality.- 14: Comprehensive governance of security.- 15: Human rights policy and Finnish human rights architecture.- 16: Innovation policy in Finland: from the limelight to distress to a search for new avenues.- 17: Reflections: Finnish public management as a Nordic system.