TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hickmann, Thomas
A1  - Fuhr, Harald
A1  - Höhne, Chris
A1  - Lederer, Markus
A1  - Stehle, Fee
T1  - Carbon Governance Arrangements and the Nation-State: The Reconfiguration of Public Authority in Developing Countries
JF  - Public administration and development
N2  - Several scholars concerned with global policy-making have recently pointed to a reconfiguration of authority in the area of climate politics. They have shown that various new carbon governance arrangements have emerged, which operate simultaneously at different governmental levels. However, despite the numerous descriptions and mapping exercises of these governance arrangements, we have little systematic knowledge on their workings within national jurisdictions, let alone about their impact on public-administrative systems in developing countries. Therefore, this article opens the black box of the nation-state and explores how and to what extent two different arrangements, that is, Transnational City Networks and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, generate changes in the distribution of public authority in nation-states and their administrations. Building upon conceptual assumptions that the former is likely to lead to more decentralized, and the latter to more centralized policy-making, we provide insights from case studies in Indonesia, South Africa, Brazil, and India. In a nutshell, our analysis underscores that Transnational City Networks strengthen climate-related actions taken by cities without ultimately decentralizing climate policy-making. On the other hand, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation tends to reinforce the competencies of central governments, but apparently does not generate a recentralization of the forestry sector at large.
KW  - authority
KW  - climate politics
KW  - decentralization
KW  - developing countries
KW  - global south
KW  - public administration
KW  - REDD
KW  - transnational city networks
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.1814
SN  - 0271-2075
SN  - 1099-162X
VL  - 37
SP  - 331
EP  - 343
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hustedt, Thurid
A1  - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg
T1  - Ensuring political responsiveness: politicization mechanisms in ministerial bureaucracies
JF  - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration
KW  - central administration
KW  - ministers and civil servants
KW  - political advisers
KW  - political responsiveness
KW  - politicization
KW  - public administration
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852314533449
SN  - 0020-8523
SN  - 1461-7226
VL  - 80
IS  - 4
SP  - 746
EP  - 765
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Reichersdorfer, Johannes
A1  - Christensen, Tom
A1  - Vrangbaek, Karsten
T1  - Accountability of immigration administration comparing crises in Norway, Denmark and Germany
JF  - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration
N2  - Accountability can be conceptualized as institutionalized mechanisms obliging actors to explain their conduct to different forums, which can pose questions and impose sanctions. This article analyses different crises' in immigration policies in Norway, Denmark and Germany along a descriptive framework of five different accountability types: political, administrative, legal, professional and social accountability. The exchanges of information, debate and their consequences between an actor and a forum are crucial to understanding how political-administrative action is carried out in critical situations. First, accountability dynamics emphasize conventional norms and values regarding policy change and, second, formal political responsibility does not necessarily lead to political consequences such as minister resignations in cases of misbehaviour. Consequences strongly depend on how accountability dynamics take place.
KW  - accountability dynamics
KW  - accountability mechanism
KW  - administration
KW  - asylum
KW  - civil service
KW  - immigration
KW  - minister responsibility
KW  - public administration
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852313478251
SN  - 0020-8523
VL  - 79
IS  - 2
SP  - 271
EP  - 291
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -