A framework for analyzing organizational culture among politicians: Exploring implications for participatory governance schemes
| Published date | 01 September 2023 |
| Author | Signy Irene Vabo,Marte Winsvold |
| Date | 01 September 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12868 |
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
A framework for analyzing organizational culture
among politicians: Exploring implications
for participatory governance schemes
Signy Irene Vabo
1
| Marte Winsvold
2
1
Department of Political Science, University
of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2
Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway
Correspondence
Signy Irene Vabo, Department of Political
Science, University of Oslo, PO Box 1097,
Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway.
Email: s.i.vabo@stv.uio.no
Funding information
The Norwegian Research Council, Grant/
Award Number: Grant #254781
Abstract
In this article, we develop a theoretical framework for investi-
gating how organizational culture relates to the roles of elected
representatives. Based on Douglas's grid and group logic, our
framework evaluates two cultural dimensions, negotiability and
conflictuality, upon which these roles depend. The negotiability
dimension describes elected representatives' roles from a
strictly hierarchical and bounded notion of how politics should
be handled to a horizontal and inclusive notion. The con-
flictuality dimension considers politics as confrontation versus
a deliberative consensus-oriented way of handling political
issues. By investigating a participatory governance measure
called “task committees”, we examine how the framework
functions empirically. Our analysis shows how different aspects
of organizational culture are reflected in councilors' interpreta-
tions of and practices related to this interactive participatory
governance scheme and illuminates the implications of organi-
zational culture for the use of such schemes.
1|INTRODUCTION
The importance of institutions in regulating political behavior is a well-established fact in the political science litera-
ture (e.g., Goodin, 1996; March & Olsen, 1989). Emphasizing the role of institutions in social and political life, institu-
tionalism states that democracy and politics are shaped not only by economic and social conditions but also by the
Received: 5 May 2021 Revised: 15 May 2022 Accepted: 17 May 2022
DOI: 10.1111/padm.12868
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which
permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no
modifications or adaptations are made.
© 2022 The Authors. Public Administration published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Public Admin. 2023;101:917–931. wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/padm 917
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