TY  - THES
A1  - Jann, Werner
T1  - Moderation
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-3-832952-24-2
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  - JOUR
A1  - Jann, Werner
A1  - Wegrich, Kai
T1  - Governance und Verwaltungspolitik
Y1  - 2010
SN  - 978-3-531-17332-0
ER  - 
TY  - BOOK
A1  - Jann, Werner
A1  - Veit, Sylvia
T1  - Politicisation of administration or bureaucratisation of politics? : The case of Germany
N2  - Der Aufsatz befasst sich mit der Frage, ob sich eine wachsende Politisierung der Ministerialbürokratie und eine zunehmende Bürokratisierung der Politik in einer Hybridisierung der Karriereverläufe von Spitzenbeamten und Exekutivpolitikern auf Bundes- und Landesebene in Deutschland nachweisen lässt.
N2  - Switches between political and administrative positions seem to be quite common in today’s politics, or at least not so unusual any longer. Nevertheless, up-to-date empirical studies on this issue are lacking. This paper investigates the presumption, that in recent years top bureaucrats have become more politicised, while at the same time more politicians stem from a bureaucratic background, by looking at the career paths of both. For this purpose, we present new empirical evidence on career patterns of top bureaucrats and executive politicians both at Federal and at Länder level. The data was collected from authorized biographies published at the websites of the Federal and Länder ministries for all Ministers, Parliamentary State Secretaries and Administrative State Secretaries who held office in June 2009.
T3  - Potsdamer Diskussionspapiere zur Verwaltungswissenschaft - 6 
KW  - Politisierung
KW  - Ministerialverwaltung
KW  - Länder
KW  - Bürokratisierung
KW  - Spitzenbeamte
KW  - Germany
KW  - politicisation
KW  - buraucratisation
KW  - core executive
KW  - top bureaucrats
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-45163
ER  -