TY  - JOUR
A1  - Klenk, Tanja
A1  - Pieper, Jonas
T1  - Accountability in a privatized welfare state the case of the german hospital market
JF  - Administration & society
N2  - One of the most striking features of recent public sector reform in Europe is privatization. This development raises questions of accountability: By whom and for what are managers of private for-profit organizations delivering public goods held accountable? Analyzing accountability mechanisms through the lens of an institutional organizational approach and on the empirical basis of hospital privatization in Germany, the article contributes to the empirical and theoretical understanding of public accountability of private actors. The analysis suggests that accountability is not declining but rather multiplying. The shifts in the locus and content of accountability cause organizational stress for private hospitals.
KW  - accountability
KW  - hospitals
KW  - privatization
KW  - welfare markets
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399712451890
SN  - 0095-3997
VL  - 45
IS  - 3
SP  - 326
EP  - 356
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jantz, Bastian
A1  - Jann, Werner
T1  - Mapping accountability changes in labour market administrations from concentrated to shared accountability?
JF  - International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration
N2  - The article explores how recent changes in the governance of employment services in three European countries (Denmark, Germany and Norway) have influenced accountability relationships. The overall assumption in the growing literature about accountability is that the number of actors involved in accountability arrangements is rising, that accountability relationships are becoming more numerous and complex, and that these changes may lead to contradictory accountability relationships, and finally to multi accountability disorder'. The article tries to explore these assumptions by analysing the different actors involved and the information requested in the new governance arrangements in all three countries. It concludes that the considerable changes in organizational arrangements and more managerial information demanded and provided have led to more shared forms of accountability. Nevertheless, a clear development towards less political or administrative accountability could not be observed.
KW  - accountability
KW  - Denmark
KW  - Germany
KW  - labour market administration
KW  - Norway
KW  - public employment service
KW  - welfare state reform
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852313477764
SN  - 0020-8523
VL  - 79
IS  - 2
SP  - 227
EP  - 248
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -