Migrationsverket - En studie i att undantas från lagen

Sammanfattning: Through using what Lennart Lundquist terms as "our public ethos" I have come to the conclusion that the Swedish Migration Office's desire to be exempted from the law of public procurement (LOU) can be understood in terms of reference to both economic and democratic values. This thesis also explains the fundamentals of the Weberian rational-legal authority and how it together with New Public Management have influenced the way the Migration Office is organized and how they exert their every day work. Possible explanations to the migration office's difficulty with complying to LOU may lie within management by objectives rather than procedures, an individual wage system and decentralization. This thesis is based on normative values and can therefore be subject to a broad discussion on what values to use in when studying democratic governance.