Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen

Presentation

Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen is professor in political management at Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS. He is the research director of the politics group at MPP. His field is public administration and welfare management in a very broad sense, which he approaches through Luhmann’s systems theory, Laclau’s discourse theory and Derrida’s deconstruction. He has been working on topics such as the “Hetrophonic welfare organizations”, “polycentricism and the supervisions state”, ‘intimization of management’, “contractualization of citizenship”, “management of feelings and interpenetration”, “partnerships as second order promises”, “games as technologies of potentiality”, “towards a playful form of hyper-responsibility”, “hybrid governance”.

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Primary research areas

• Welfare management
• Public administration, its boundaries and polycentrism
• Management of self-management
• Intimization of management, including management of feelings
• Play and management of potentiality

Courses

• HA(kom): Samtidsdiagnostik.
• PKL: introkursus og analysestrategi

Supervision

• PKL