Jesper Dahl Kelstrup

This book explores the use of evidence in different government ministries, and how it affects policy success and failure in Denmark. It analyses the ways in which public administrators collect and link evidence to policy-making in the areas of public budgeting employment and primary education, highlighting how ministers in the three policy areas utilise evidence in varying ways. Denmark makes a particularly interesting case study, characterised by a strong administrative capacity for evidence use. The book also offers important insights into evidence-based policymaking in a non-Anglophone context. It will appeal to scholars and students of public administration and public policy.

In the 21st century, think tanks have become more than a buzzword in European public discourse. They now play important roles in the policy-making process by providing applied research, building networks and advocating policies. The book studies the development of think tanks and contemporary consequences in the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and at the EU-level. A Continental think tank tradition in which the state plays a pivotal role and an Anglo-American tradition which facilitates interaction in public policy on market-like terms have shaped the development of think tanks. On the basis of a typology of think tanks, quantitative data and interviews with think tank practitioners, the interplay between state and market dynamics and the development of different types of think tanks is analysed. Although think tanks develop along different institutional trajectories, it is concluded that the Anglo-American tradition has had a significant, cross-cutting impact in Europe in recent years. The contention over the politics of think tanks runs deeper at the EU-level than in the member states and reflects disagreement over how the EU should develop in the future.This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of political communication, public policy, European politics and comparative politics.

Tænketanke har efter årtusindskiftet etableret sig som aktører i dansk politik. På grundlag af ekspertise, påstået uafhængighed og synlighed konkurrerer tænketanke om finansiering og om indflydelse på politiske beslutninger. Deres fremvækst rejser spørgsmål til borgere, praktikere og studerende, der beskæftiger sig med demokrati og politik i Danmark.Hvad er en tænketank? Hvorfor er tænketankene kommet? Hvordan ser landskabet af tænketanke ud? Og hvad betyder deres fremvækst?Bogen belyser, hvordan forskellige teorier kan bruges til at forstå tænketankes fremvækst og indflydelse i Danmark. Den beskriver vigtige tænketanke og argumenterer for, at der er blevet dannet et tænketankslandskab, som består både af offentlige og private, konsensusorienterede og konfrontatoriske tænketanke. Bogens belysning af tænketankenes synlighed over for beslutningstagere og i medierne er et vigtigt bidrag til forståelsen af, hvordan og hvorfor dansk politik forandres i det 21. århundrede.Om forfatterenJesper Dahl Kelstrup er cand. scient.pol., ph.d. og lektor ved Institut for Samfundsvidenskab og Erhverv på Roskilde Universitet (RUC). Han forsker i offentlig politik i Danmark og Europa med særligt fokus på tænketanke.

In the 21st century, think tanks have become more than a buzzword in European public discourse. They now play important roles in the policy-making process by providing applied research, building networks and advocating policies. The book studies the development of think tanks and contemporary consequences in the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark and at the EU-level. A Continental think tank tradition in which the state plays a pivotal role and an Anglo-American tradition which facilitates interaction in public policy on market-like terms have shaped the development of think tanks. On the basis of a typology of think tanks, quantitative data and interviews with think tank practitioners, the interplay between state and market dynamics and the development of different types of think tanks is analysed. Although think tanks develop along different institutional trajectories, it is concluded that the Anglo-American tradition has had a significant, cross-cutting impact in Europe in recent years. The contention over the politics of think tanks runs deeper at the EU-level than in the member states and reflects disagreement over how the EU should develop in the future.This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of political communication, public policy, European politics and comparative politics.

"Politik og administration" er en lærebog i offentlige forvaltning, der forener klassiske forvaltningstudier og politologi med nyere forståelser af bl.a. innovation og samproduktion i den offentlige sektor. Bogen giver en deskriptiv indføring i forvaltningens mange facetter, men har samtidig en teoretiske dimension, hvor centrale teorier gennemgås, og kernebegreber operationaliseres for at give en mere nuanceret forståelse af forvaltningens mange sammenhænge og udfordringer.