De offentliga tjänstemännens värdegrunder - hur genomförs normativ analys för självvärdering?

Abstract

Values of the public servants - How is normative analysis for self-evaluation conducted? It is important for public administration to make qualified guesses about the future. The public administration does therefore conduct evaluations of their own activities, which later can be a basis for political decision-making. To be able to scrutinize and value results from these evaluations it is important to focus on how evaluations arc made in public administration. One neglected field of research is how evaluators in public administration justify the desirable in self-evaluations and what values the justification is built on. In order to do empirical studies of how the desirable is justified a model of analysis is necessary. The model presented in this article is based on the division between intuition and explanation, where the latter is further divided into deontological, teleological and character-based explanations.