TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bertels, Jana
A1  - Schulze-Gabrechten, Lena
T1  - Mapping the black box of intraministerial organization
BT  - An analytical approach to explore structural diversity below the portfolio level
JF  - Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions
N2  - This article explores the structural diversity of intraministerial organization over time. Based on organization theory, it proposes a generic typology for intraministerial units applicable to any hierarchically structured government organization. We empirically investigate the critical case of the German federal bureaucracy. By classifying its subunits, we analyze the longitudinal development of structural differentiation and its correspondence to denominational variety. The data stem from a novel international dataset, covering all ministries between 1980 and 2015. We find that intraministerial structure differentiates over time, across and within ministries. A stable core of traditional Weberian structure is complemented by structurally innovative intraministerial units. We conclude that the German federal bureaucracy is more diverse than suggested in previous literature. Our findings indicate that less Weberian bureaucracies are at least as structurally diverse and that more reform-driven bureaucracies will have experienced at least as many changes in structural diversity.
KW  - continuity
KW  - government
KW  - impact
KW  - public management
KW  - reforms
KW  - state
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12486
SN  - 0952-1895
SN  - 1468-0491
VL  - 34
IS  - 1
SP  - 171
EP  - 189
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Bertels, Jana
A1  - Schulze-Gabrechten, Lena
T1  - Mapping the black box of intraministerial organization
BT  - An analytical approach to explore structural diversity below the portfolio level
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - This article explores the structural diversity of intraministerial organization over time. Based on organization theory, it proposes a generic typology for intraministerial units applicable to any hierarchically structured government organization. We empirically investigate the critical case of the German federal bureaucracy. By classifying its subunits, we analyze the longitudinal development of structural differentiation and its correspondence to denominational variety. The data stem from a novel international dataset, covering all ministries between 1980 and 2015. We find that intraministerial structure differentiates over time, across and within ministries. A stable core of traditional Weberian structure is complemented by structurally innovative intraministerial units. We conclude that the German federal bureaucracy is more diverse than suggested in previous literature. Our findings indicate that less Weberian bureaucracies are at least as structurally diverse and that more reform-driven bureaucracies will have experienced at least as many changes in structural diversity.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 165 
KW  - public management
KW  - continuity
KW  - government
KW  - reforms
KW  - impact
KW  - state
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-514264
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 1
ER  -