Agencification and location: Does agency site matter?
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Author
Egeberg, Morten ; Trondal, Jarle
Year
2011
Publisher
Springer, Public Organization Review (2011) 11:97–108
Type of publication:
Tidsskriftsartikkel
Link to publication:
http://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/136567/Trondal_2011_Agencification_.pdf
Link to review:
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/136567
Number of pages:
11
ISSN:
1566-7170
Language of publication:
Engelsk
Country of publication:
Norge
NSD-reference:
3147
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2020-04-17 12:40:29.983
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Summary
Two decades of New Public Management have placed agencifiction high on the agenda of administrative policy-makers. However, agencification (and de-agencification) has been one of the enduring themes of public administration. Agencies organized at arm's length from ministerial departments have fairly often been located outside of the capital or political centre. Although practitioners tend to assign some weight to central versus peripheral location as regards political-administrative behavior, this relationship has been almost totally ignored by scholars in the field. In this paper, based on a large-N elite survey, we show that agency autonomy, agency influence and inter-institutional coordination seem to be relatively unaffected by agency site. This study also specifies some conditions under which this finding is valid. © 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.