TY - JOUR A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Policy analysis and the principal agent model Y1 - 2005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lodge, M. A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Control over government : Institutional isomorphism and governance dynamics in German public administration N2 - The era of public management change is said to challenge traditional "command and control" modes of governance, encouraging a move toward either more informal forms of (co-) governance or market-type incentives and competition. Regardless of whether these claims are made by reform advocates or by more sceptical observers within the wider governance debate, less attention has been paid by either side on the mechanisms that are supposed to facilitate the spread of new forms of control. This article seeks to advance this state of affairs in two ways. First, it utilizes the notion of institutional isomorphism to explore the nature of change of modes of control. In particular, it assesses the mechanisms for change, whether control mechanisms are changing due to coercive, mimetic, or professional mechanisms. Second, it explores the impact of these mechanisms in the federal context of Germany in two policy domains, prison and local government supervision (in the field of building administration). Finally, this article suggests that cultural theory offers considerable insights for the study of institutional isomorphism by emphasizing conflicting worldviews and the diversity of related policy ideas as driving forces of change in modes of governance Y1 - 2005 SN - 0190-292X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lodge, M. A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Governing multi-level governance : Comparing domain dynamics in German Land-local relationships and prisons N2 - While the notion of governance has received considerable scholarly attention, much less is known about change, and its sources, across modes of governance within respective policy domains. This article explores these neglected issues in two policy domains characterized by multi-level governance characteristics: Land (state)- local relationships in the domain of building administration and relationships governing the prisons domain in Germany. It does so in three steps. First, the article explores governance and considers endogenous and exogenous sources of change. Second, it discusses the institutional arrangements in the two domains and analyses modes of governance and their change. Third, the article compares the different dynamics of change and links these findings to wider debates regarding change across and within modes of governance. The analysis of the two domains suggests that 'hunting around' effects (i.e. permanent instability) are less prominent than suggested by cultural theory, while external pressures for change are filtered by the preferences of the actors within the respective domains Y1 - 2005 SN - 0033-3298 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Governance und Verwaltungspolitik Y1 - 2004 SN - 3-8100-3946-2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Implementing public policy : Governance in theory and practice Y1 - 2004 SN - 0140-2382 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Phasenmodelle und Politikprozesse: Der Policy Cycle Y1 - 2003 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Generalists and specialists in executive politics: Why ambitious meta-policies so often fail JF - Public administration N2 - This article contributes to the politics of policy‐making in executive government. It introduces the analytical distinction between generalists and specialists as antagonistic players in executive politics and develops the claim that policy specialists are in a structurally advantaged position to succeed in executive politics and to fend off attempts by generalists to influence policy choices through cross‐cutting reform measures. Contrary to traditional textbook public administration, we explain the views of generalists and specialists not through their training but their positions within an organization. We combine established approaches from public policy and organization theory to substantiate this claim and to define the dilemma that generalists face when developing government‐wide reform policies (‘meta‐policies’) as well as strategies to address this problem. The article suggests that the conceptual distinction between generalists and specialists allows for a more precise analysis of the challenges for policy‐making across government organizations than established approaches. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12614 SN - 0033-3298 SN - 1467-9299 VL - 97 IS - 4 SP - 845 EP - 860 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Wie bürokratisch ist Deutschland? : Und warum? ; Generalisten und Spezialisten im Entbürokratisierungsspiel JF - Der moderne Staat : dms; Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Rech und Management N2 - Das verbreitete Stereotyp Deutschlands als übermäßig bürokratisierter Staat kann einer nüchternen empirischen Bestandsaufnahme kaum standhalten. Im internationalen Vergleich zeigt sich vielmehr ein unterschiedliches Ausmaß der „Bürokratisierung“ entlang von drei zentralen Dimensionen der häufig undifferenziert betrachteten Bürokratieproblematik. Einer intelligenten Strategie der Entbürokratisierung muss daher eine systematische Analyse der Mechanismen der Bürokratisierung in einzelnen Dimensionen der Bürokratiekritik – zu viel Staat, zu viel Regulierung, zu bürokratische Organisation – zugrunde liegen. Der Beitrag stellt einen zentralen Mechanismus für die Regulierungsproblematik als derzeit besonders intensiv diskutiertes Bürokratieproblem dar: Das relative politische Kräfteverhältnis von „Generalisten“ und „Spezialisten“ wird als entscheidend für den Erfolg von Initiativen zur Deregulierung und „besseren Regulierung“ identifiziert. Diskutiert wird der Beitrag unterschiedlicher theoretischer Perspektiven zur konzeptionellen Begründung dieser Generalisten-Spezialisten-These. Hieraus ergeben sich schließlich handlungsrelevante Hypothesen zur Wirksamkeit von verbreiteten Ansätzen der „besseren Regulierung“. Y1 - 2008 SN - 1865-7192 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 49 EP - 72 PB - Budrich CY - Leverkusen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Phasenmodelle und Politikprozesse : der Policy Cycle Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-348-65889-2-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Governance und Verwaltungspolitik Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-531-17332-0 ER -