Abstract This article focuses on how common-sense knowledge is enacted by middle managers in order to make sense of contemporary public administration. Specifically, the article demonstrates how managerialization and market logics is embedded in actors’ perceptions of public administration and becomes manifested through understandings and legitimations. The article presents an analysis of conversational data from middle management positions within a Swedish government agency. The analysis demonstrates how actors categorize a traditional hierarchy together with contemporary ideas of consumerism. It is also demonstrated how actors draw on legitimations of authority and mythopoesis in order to make sense of and to understand their managerial role within the agency. As such, the article contributes to contemporary public administration literature and its discussion regarding the effects of embedding marketization logics on actor and organizational levels as well as to ethnomethodologically informed literature within the social science and humanities.

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转型中的公共行政

摘要 本文侧重于中层管理人员如何制定常识性知识以理解当代公共行政。具体而言，本文展示了管理化和市场逻辑如何嵌入到行为者对公共行政的认知中，并通过理解和合法化表现出来。本文对瑞典政府机构中层管理职位的对话数据进行了分析。该分析展示了参与者如何将传统的等级制度与当代的消费主义思想结合起来进行分类。它还展示了演员如何利用权威和神话的合法性来理解和理解他们在机构中的管理角色。因此，