TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Pruin, Andree T1 - Organizational reputation in executive politics BT - citizen-oriented units in the German federal bureaucracy JF - International review of administrative sciences N2 - In recent years, governments have increased their efforts to strengthen the citizen-orientation in policy design. They have established temporary arenas as well as permanent units inside the machinery of government to integrate citizens into policy formulation, leading to a “laboratorization” of central government organizations. We argue that the evolution and role of these units herald new dynamics in the importance of organizational reputation for executive politics. These actors deviate from the classic palette of organizational units inside the machinery of government and thus require their own reputation vis-à-vis various audiences within and outside their parent organization. Based on a comparative case study of two of these units inside the German federal bureaucracy, we show how ambiguous expectations of their audiences challenge their organizational reputation. Both units resolve these tensions by balancing their weaker professional and procedural reputation with a stronger performative and moral reputation. We conclude that government units aiming to improve citizen orientation in policy design may benefit from engaging with citizens as their external audience to compensate for a weaker reputation in the eyes of their audiences inside the government organization. Points for practitioners: many governments have introduced novel means to strengthen citizen-centered policy design, which has led to an emergence of novel units inside central government that differ from traditional bureaucratic structures and procedures ; this study analyzes how these new units may build their organizational reputation vis-à-vis internal and external actors in government policymaking. ; we show that such units assert themselves primarily based on their performative and moral reputation. KW - citizen participation KW - government policymaking KW - organizational reputation Y1 - 0023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523221132228 SN - 0020-8523 SN - 1461-7226 PB - Sage CY - Los Angeles, Calif. ER - TY - THES A1 - Wack, Christian T1 - Acceptance criteria as part of the German energy turnaround T1 - Akzeptanzkriterien als Teil der deutschen Energiewende BT - a contribution to the implementation of and citizen participation in the major planning project “Suedlink” BT - ein Beitrag zur Planung und Durchführung der Windstromleitung SuedLink unter Berücksichtigung der Bürgerbeteiligung N2 - Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine Fallstudie zum Netzausbauprojekt „Suedlink“. Sie gliedert sich demnach in vier wesentliche Abschnitte: 1. In einem theoretischen Teil werden die für diese Arbeit wichtigen Theorien der „Sozialen Akzeptanz“ nach Wüstenhagen et al. (2007), der „Schritte der Partizipation“ nach Münnich (2014) und der Governance-Theorie nach Benz und Dose (2011) erläutert. 2. In einem methodischen Teil werden die für diese Arbeit relevanten Methoden diskutiert und kritisch erläutert. 3. In einem qualitativ-empirischen Teil werden die Informationen der Experteninterviews ausgewertet und anhand der vorgestellten Theorien eingeordnet. In dem vierten und letzten Teil der Arbeit wird eine empirisch-quantitative Analyse der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz gegenüber Südlink vorgenommen. In dieser Arbeit soll mithilfe qualitativer und quantitativer Methoden zwei Fragen geklärt werden. 1. Welche Governance-Aspekte waren für eine gesetzliche Priorität von Erdkabeln im Ausbau von Hochspannungsübertragungsgleichstromleitungen entscheidend? Hierfür wurden intensive Dokumentenanalysen und verschiedene Experteninterviews durchgeführt. 2. Die zentrale Fragestellung dieser Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwiefern lokale und individuelle Faktoren die Akzeptanz von Suedlink beeinflussen. Hierbei ist interessant zu sehen, welchen Einfluss der gesetzliche Erdkabelvorrang bei der Akzeptanzbildung der Bevölkerung gegenüber Suedlink gespielt hat. Für die Beantwortung wurde ein Online-survey konzipiert, welcher zwischen März und Juli 2016 über Bürgerinitiativen, Landräte und soziale Netzwerke verteilt wurde. Nach Abschluss der Datenerhebung wurden dieser unter Verwendung deskriptiv-quantitativer Methoden ausgewertet. Die Auswertung der Umfrage zeigt auf, das Erdkabel alleine keine nennenswerte Akzeptanz schaffen (vgl. dazu Menges und Beyer, 2013). Vielmehr stehen individuell und lokale Faktoren und Kriterien im Vordergrund der Beurteilung. Zum Beispiel spielt die Qualität der Partizipation und Einbindung der Bürger sowie die Nähe zur Erdverkabelung und die finanzielle Mehrbelastung eine Rolle bei der Beurteilung von Erdkabeln. Zudem wird deutlich, das Befragte aus Bürgerinitiativen wesentlich kritischer gegen Suedlink allgemein und gegenüber Erdkabeln im speziellen sind. Ferner ist signifikant, dass Eigenheimbesitzer jegliche Bauform ablehnen. N2 - The present work is a case study contributing to the major planning project “Suedlink”. It is structured as follows: first, in a theoretical part, mandatory theories of social acceptance (Wüstenhagen et al., 2007), steps of participation (Münnich, 2014), and the governance theory (Benz and Dose, 2011) are elaborated. Secondly, the relevant methods are discussed. Thirdly, in a qualitative analytical part, the information that were gathered from the expert interviews are analyzed with the use of the aforementioned theories. In the fourth place, an empirical quantitative analysis of data regarding the public acceptance towards Suedlink is presented. In this case study, with the use of qualitative and quantitative methods, two questions are answered: first, which governance aspects were relevant for the priority use of underground cables for the construction of high voltage direct current transmission lines? For this question, intensive document analysis and different expert interviews were conducted. Secondly, the central question of the present work addresses the question whether local or/and individual factors affect the public acceptance towards SüdLink. Here, in particular, it is interesting to analyze if the priority use of underground cables affected the people’s acceptance towards SuedLink. In order to respond to both questions, an online survey was conducted among citizen initiatives, district administrators, and individuals in social media during March till July 2016. Thereafter, the data was analyzed with the use of descriptive quantitative methods. The data shows, that underground cables not necessarily increase public acceptance (see also Menges and Beyer, 2013). On the contrary, individual and local criteria were relevant for the survey respondents. For example criteria such as the quality of participation, distance between home and transmission lines, and the additional financial burden (taxes, higher prices for electricity) were important for the evaluation. In addition, survey respondents who participated in citizen initiatives were more critical against the priority use of underground cables and SuedLink in general. Likewise, residential homeowners rejected every form of transmission lines. KW - Suedlink KW - Südlink KW - Netzausbau KW - Bürgerbeteiligung KW - Energiewende KW - Partizipation KW - soziale Akzeptanz KW - Großprojekte KW - Suedlink KW - Südlink KW - transmission grid KW - citizen participation KW - energy transition KW - energy turnaround KW - social acceptance KW - high-voltage direct current transmission lines Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395173 ER - TY - THES A1 - Muriu, Abraham Rugo T1 - Decentralization, citizen participation and local public service delivery : a study on the nature and influence of citizen participation on decentralized service delivery in Kenya N2 - Governments at central and sub-national levels are increasingly pursuing participatory mechanisms in a bid to improve governance and service delivery. This has been largely in the context of decentralization reforms in which central governments transfer (share) political, administrative, fiscal and economic powers and functions to sub-national units. Despite the great international support and advocacy for participatory governance where citizen’s voice plays a key role in decision making of decentralized service delivery, there is a notable dearth of empirical evidence as to the effect of such participation. This is the question this study sought to answer based on a case study of direct citizen participation in Local Authorities (LAs) in Kenya. This is as formally provided for by the Local Authority Service Delivery Action Plan (LASDAP) framework that was established to ensure citizens play a central role in planning and budgeting, implementation and monitoring of locally identified services towards improving livelihoods and reducing poverty. Influence of participation was assessed in terms of how it affected five key determinants of effective service delivery namely: efficient allocation of resources; equity in service delivery; accountability and reduction of corruption; quality of services; and, cost recovery. It finds that the participation of citizens is minimal and the resulting influence on the decentralized service delivery negligible. It concludes that despite the dismal performance of citizen participation, LASDAP has played a key role towards institutionalizing citizen participation that future structures will build on. It recommends that an effective framework of citizen participation should be one that is not directly linked to politicians; one that is founded on a legal framework and where citizens have a legal recourse opportunity; and, one that obliges LA officials both to implement what citizen’s proposals which meet the set criteria as well as to account for their actions in the management of public resources. T2 - Dezentralisierung, Bürgerbeteiligung und kommunale Leistungserstellung in Kenia T3 - Schriftenreihe für Public und Nonprofit Management - 17 KW - Dezentralisierung KW - Bürgerbeteiligung KW - kommunale Leistungserstellung KW - Kenia KW - decentralization KW - citizen participation KW - local public service delivery KW - Kenya Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-65085 ER -