Book presentation at Score
Date: Thursday 23 April 2026
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Location: Score, Frescativägen 14 A, Stockholm University
The New Public Bureaucracy by Karl Löfgren and Patrik Hall investigates the growing number of organisational professionals whose primary role is the management of internal functions, such as quality control, audits, performance review and organisational branding. The book examines and verifies this growth by drawing on public sector workforce data and case studies from New Zealand and Sweden concerning transport agencies, police forces and higher education sectors. Löfgren and Hall also identify patterns of growing attention to accountability through the expansion of managerialism, politicisation and professionalisation. They explain the development of a new type of bureaucratisation as the result of the tension between politics and public administration.
Commentator: Martin Qvist, Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University.
The presentation will be held in English.
Registration is required. Seats are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
