THE IMPACT OF FORMAL ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE ON POLITICO-ADMINISTRATIVE INTERACTION: EVIDENCE FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baekgaard, Martin
• 署名单位: Aarhus University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01872.x
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 1063-1080
• 关键词: committee structure; preferences; search

摘要

The effects of different organizational structures are often assumed, expected or promised but seldom well documented through systematic studies (Christensen et al. 2007, p. 144). Using evidence from a natural experiment including organizational data from 65 Danish municipalities and survey responses from 1014 politicians and 403 administrators, the article analyses whether and how two different organizational leadership models affect the interaction between politicians and administrators. The analyses show the expected differences in the patterns of interaction between politicians and administrators when comparing municipalities using a traditional sector-based model and municipalities using a more recent executive board approach. Compared to the sector-based model, the new model has the intended effects of cutting ties between politicians sitting on specialized committees and administrative leaders of single service departments, and strengthening the relations between the political and administrative leadership.