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The Nexus Between Agencification and Horizontal Accountability: A Multi-Country Survey Analysis

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences

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Title The Nexus Between Agencification and Horizontal Accountability: A Multi-Country Survey Analysis
 
Creator VERHOEST, Koen; Research Professor, Department of Politics (Research
Group on Public Administration and Management),
University of Antwerp, Belgium Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
WYNEN, Jan; Post-doctoral Researcher, Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
 
Subject agencies, horizontal accountability mechanisms, managerial autonomy.
 
Description Accountability to political principals, stakeholders and citizens is a major issue in the literature on structurally disaggregated autonomous agencies. There are numerous accounts in the literature which claim that the need for independence of agencies reduces the ability of political principals to hold it and its leadership accountable for actions. However, next to traditional vertical accountability instruments (e.g., monitoring and evaluation of the organization or senior management), ‘alternatives’ such as horizontal ways of holding agencies accountable exist. Using multi-country survey data, this article explores how managerial autonomy affects the existence and use of such accountability mechanisms.
 
Publisher Babes Bolyai University
 
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Date 2016-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/490
 
Source Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences; 2016: Issue No. 48 E/June; 184-202
1842-2845
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rtsa.ro/tras/index.php/tras/article/view/490/479
 
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