TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Claudia A1 - Gronau, Norbert T1 - Bildung von sozialen Netzwerken in Anwendungen der Social Software JF - Analyse sozialer Netzwerke und Social Software Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-940019-26-4 SP - 1 EP - 23 PB - GITO CY - Berlin ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Kunze, Karl-Kuno A1 - Strohe, Hans Gerhard T1 - Antipersistence in German Stock Returns T3 - Statistische Diskussionsbeiträge Y1 - 2010 SN - 0949-068x VL - 39 PB - Univ. CY - Potsdam ER - TY - THES A1 - Kirn, Tanja T1 - Anreizwirkungen von Finanzausgleichssytemen T2 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Schriften Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-631-60847-0 SN - 0170-8252 VL - 120 PB - Lang CY - Frankfurt am Main ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Animals in the administrative zoo : organizational change and agency autonomy in Germany N2 - Although Germany does not figure among the 'forerunners' of managerial reforms of the public sector, it has a long tradition of agencies and non-departmental bodies at the federal level. Over time, the federal administration has developed into a highly differentiated 'administrative zoo' with a large number of species, questioning the image of a well-ordered German bureaucracy. The article addresses organizational changes among non-ministerial agencies during the past 20 years and ministry-agency relations, drawing on data from a comprehensive survey of the federal administration. The structural changes we observe are neither comprehensive nor planned; they are much more evolutionary than revolutionary, driven by sectoral policies and not by any overall agency policy, supported more by regulatory than by managerial reforms, and most of the changes are horizontal mergers or successions of existing organizations, while we find almost no evidence for hiving-off from ministries to agencies. At the same time, federal agencies report a lot of bureaucratic discretion, whereas they perceive substantial levels of 'red tape' due to administrative regulations. We also find that traditional, hierarchical modes of ministerial oversight are still dominating; only few agencies have performance agreements with measurable goals. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://ras.sagepub.com/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852310372448 SN - 0020-8523 ER - TY - BOOK ED - Müller-Birn, Claudia ED - Gronau, Norbert T1 - Analyse Sozialer Netzwerk und Social Software BT - Grundlagen und Anwendungsbeispiele Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-9400192-64-04 PB - GITO CY - Berlin ET - durchgesehene Aufl. ER -