Alles eine Frage des Managements?

In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS : German political science quarterly, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 69-93

Abstract

NPM-driven agencification thoroughly changed the face of public administrations in many modern democracies. Despite high expectations & more than a decade of experience the effects of these reforms are still widely disputed. This contribution presents a neo-institutionalist model to evaluate empirically the explanatory power of those factors commonly considered as the most relevant for executives' discretion in decision-making. Perception-data taken from the German federal administration confirm the hypothesized correlation between the distance from government & perceived discretion of agency executives. However, in-depth analysis reveals that some of the most common instruments to achieve autonomization fail to deliver. Adapted from the source document.