Mapping accountability changes in labour market administrations
- 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.
Author details: | Bastian JantzGND, Werner JannORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-403642 |
Subtitle (English): | from concentrated to shared accountability? |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe (85) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/02/14 |
Publication year: | 2018 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2018/02/14 |
Tag: | Denmark; Germany; Norway; accountability; labour market administration; public employment service; welfare state reform |
Volume: | 79 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 22 |
Source: | International review of administrative sciences 79 (2013) Nr. 2 , DOI: 10.1177/0020852313477764 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | Sage |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |