AUTONOMY AND REREGULATION: EXPLAINING DYNAMICS IN THE FLEMISH SOCIAL HOUSING SECTOR

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Van Dooren, Wouter; Voets, Joris; Winters, Sien
• 署名单位: University of Antwerp; Ghent University; KU Leuven
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12181
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1068-1083
• 关键词: Public management; performance management; ADMINISTRATIVE-LAW; regulatory state; ACCOUNTABILITY; PROFESSIONALIZATION; GOVERNMENT; governance; diffusion; npm

摘要

The autonomy of implementing agencies often seems to trigger reregulation of those agencies. Reregulation has two dimensions: the layering of different control mechanisms and the growth of the rules within those layers. Using a case study of social housing in Belgium, we explain the tendency to reregulate once autonomy is provided. We attribute the layering of rules to a conflict regarding oversight between the established legal profession and an ascending management profession. Crozier's vicious circle of bureaucratization helps to explain the growth of regulation within layers. The legal culture of the Rechtsstaat is a catalyst for both professional competition and bureaucratization.