“…And, if we believe that research that has implications for political legitimacy and human well-being is also of high relevance, the separation of public administration issues from the discipline must be a problem. 1 It is probably not a coincidence that the current primus inter pares among Nordic political scientists—Johan P. Olsen at the University of Oslo—is by and large a public administration scholar and also a researcher who has had a huge policy influence in the Nordic countries, not least as a leading member of two of the four mega-research projects carried out during the last three decades known as the “power and democracy” investigations (Elmgren and Götz 2013). Leading political scientists and political philosophers in Europe also publish books about how to increase the policy impact from our discipline (Bastow, Dunleavy, and Tinkler 2014; Wolff 2011).…”