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Danish permanent secretaries, top civil servants in the Danish state administration, are formally both administrative heads of their ministries as well as prime advisers to Danish ministers. In this article we analyse whether and how the public service bargain (PSB) (Hood and Lodge, 2006) of Danish permanent secretaries primarily reflects elements of a managerial role as prescribed in many of the New Public Management reforms or whether their role as policy adviser is as important as their role as manager, as is formally prescribed. The PSB is assessed in terms of the typology of Hood and Lodge, including the dimensions: reward, competency, loyalty and responsibility. The analysis demonstrates that although elements of a managerial bargain have entered the role of Danish permanent secretaries, it is not more salient than the advisory aspect of the PSB.

I perioden fra 2008 til 2017 har en ny arbejdsform – en innovation kaldet hverdagsrehabilitering – spredt sig blandt danske kommuner. Vi viser, at udviklingen er et eksempel på, hvordan New Public Governance (NPG) strategier supplerer og i nogen grad erstatter New Public Management (NPM) strategier, og undersøger spredningsmønsteret med udgangspunkt i hypoteser fra diffusion-of-innovations-litteraturen. Vi finder en, i forhold til litteraturen, overraskende sammenhæng. Kommuner med stort ressourcepres var hurtigere til at tage hverdagsrehabilitering i brug end kommuner med mindre ressourcepres. Med baggrund heri kan innovation dermed forstås som politics of hard times, og adoptionen af hverdagsrehabilitering – som et eksempel på spredningen af en styringslogik på tværs af kommuner – synes at være drevet af kommunernes økonomiske situation og behov for at nytænke deres opgaveløsning.