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
T1  - Verwaltungswissenschaft, Policy-Forschung und Managementlehre
JF  - Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-658-21562-0
SP  - 27
EP  - 37
PB  - Springer
CY  - Wiesbaden
ET  - 5., vollständig überarb. Aufl.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jann, Werner
T1  - Neues Steuerungsmodell
JF  - Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-658-21562-0
SP  - 127
EP  - 138
PB  - Springer
CY  - Wiesbaden
ET  - 5., vollständig überarb. Aufl.
ER  -