ACCOUNTABILITY AFTER STRUCTURAL DISAGGREGATION: COMPARING AGENCY ACCOUNTABILITY ARRANGEMENTS
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Overman, Sjors; Van Genugten, Marieke; Van Thiel, Sandra
署名单位：
Radboud University Nijmegen
刊物名称：
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
ISSN/ISSBN：
0033-3298
DOI：
10.1111/padm.12185
发表日期：
2015
页码：
1102-1120
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摘要：
New accountability instruments - performance indicators, audits, and financial incentives - are expected to replace traditional accountability instruments in NPM reforms. We test this expectation by looking at the accountability arrangements of semi-autonomous agencies as a typical example of NPM reforms. Our findings are based on survey data on 342 agencies in six countries. We identify four types of accountability arrangements in semi-autonomous agencies, in line with the four trajectories of public management reform identified by Pollitt and Bouckaert (2004). Accountability relations between agencies and ministries are determined by country-specific administrative regimes, types of agency, and to a lesser extent, agencies' policy fields. We identify new avenues for theory and research into the effects of reforms on accountability in the public sector, and on semi-autonomous agencies in particular.
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