Julkishallinto sosiaalisten käytäntöjen kimppuna: teoreettis-metodologisia näkökulmia julkishallinnon toiminnan tutkimiseen
Abstrakti
In this article, we apply a practice theoretical
approach for studying public administration.
We argue that social practices are constitutive
elements of public administration. This is why it
is important to recognize which social practices
regulate public administration. We portray two
analytical concepts, ‘pathologies of action’ and
‘bolted actualities’, which are helpful in studying how particular practices condition public
policymaking. The first concept points at subconscious conflictual action at the level of an
organization, and the second to an individual’s
experience of impracticality of action that the
actor feels one cannot alter. We utilise institutional ethnography as a methodological framework for studying these social practices.
