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Among those involved in the reform of institutions of public governance an intensiv debate has taken place about the possible consequences of a more active user role democracy. Some emphazise its negative effects while others focus on advantages for democracy. The article analyses differences and similarities in the arguments made by the parttakers in the debate, and direct our attantion towards a lack of clarity in the foundation of this debate about the analytical relationship between universalism and particularism. On this backgrund it is argued that an analysis of the relationship between democracy and an active user role calls for a reconcretization of the concept of the political.

The world is rapidly changing. The contours of a new economic, political and social landscape are emerging and that poses a huge challenge for a small, open economy as the Danish. In this report we investigate the consequences of societal change for the competences which will be in demand during the next decades. In section one we explain our argument and make some necessary caveats. In section two we account for a number of societal megatrends which we think will influence the future competences. In section three we deal with the political factor affecting changes in competences, and analyse some of the nodal points in the discursive struggles about where we are and should be heading. In section four we present a list of new competence-parameters and -indicators, and in section five we discuss the relevance of these new competences for different groups of employees.

What does it mean to be a politician or an administrator in contemporary Denmark? The conditions under which these two central categories of actors operate within the political system have changed considerably in recent years. Hence, processes of societal governance can less be characterized as hierarchical, centralized, top-down government, and more as horizontal network governance. The working paper presents the outline of a research project which aims to contribute to the accumulation of knowledge concerning the means by which administrators and politicians handle the conflicts that emerge as a result of the modification of these otherwise traditional roles.