Handbook of Bureaucratic Autonomy

Politics, Resources, Power

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Bringing together an array of expert scholars, this perceptive Handbook presents an in-depth overview of bureaucratic autonomy across the globe. It examines the opportunities and implications of autonomy at the institutional, organizational and individual level, highlighting diverse perspectives as well as avenues for future research.Exploring a variety of concepts, methods, and approaches to bureaucratic independence, this volume provides a comprehensive explanation of the agency model and delves into core issues such as measuring and explaining bureaucratic autonomy. Chapters draw on detailed case studies from Europe to Sub-Saharan Africa, analyzing the impact of commercialization, collaborative governance and policy ambiguity on political control. Raising key theoretical and empirical questions, the book ultimately underscores the need to consider normative issues including those surrounding accountability and the consequences of autonomy.The Handbook of Bureaucratic Autonomy is an invaluable resource for students and academics in public administration and management, public policy, political science, regulation and governance, and organization theory. It will also greatly benefit policymakers and public sector administrators seeking a deeper understanding of developments in bureaucratic autonomy.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-07
Mått169 x 244 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieElgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781803927039

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ContentsPreface xiiPART I INTRODUCTION1 Understanding bureaucratic autonomy: existing approaches and the wayforward 2B. Guy Peters2 Civil servants’ conceptions of bureaucratic autonomy 24Min Han Kim and Kyungdong KimPART II THREE LOCALES FOR AUTONOMYSection 2.1Bureaucracy as an Institution3 The military as an autonomous actor: sources, dimensions, and dynamics 41Zeki SarigilSection 2.2The Autonomy of Organizations4 The politics of organizational autonomy: contrasting bureaucratic politicsand depoliticization 61Erik Hysing5 The agency model and autonomy 77Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid6 Assessing agency autonomy 94Muiris MacCarthaigh and Abiha Zahra7 The autonomy of international bureaucracies 114Michael W. Bauer and Jörn EgeSection 2.3Individual Bureaucrats8 The autonomy of senior civil servants 131Katarína Staroňová and Marek Rybáň9 The relative autonomy of street-level bureaucrats 149Peter Hupe10 Bureaucratic polarization theory 176João V. Guedes-NetoPART III THEORIES OF BUREAUCRATIC AUTONOMY11 The synergetic model: mixing stewardship and principal–agent theory 192Sandra van Thiel12 Trust, populism, and the independence of regulatory agencies 208Martino Maggetti, Fabrizio Di Mascio and Alessandro Natalini13 Studying the politics–bureaucracy nexus beyond bureaucratic autonomy:vertical policy integration and policy performance 218Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach and Xavier Fernández-i-Marín14 Diverse positions, diverse autonomies: bureaucrats as policy actors in thepolicy arena 235Lihi Lahat and Tanja Klenk15 Bureaucratic autonomy: lessons from historians 247Edward C. PagePART IV MECHANISMS FOR BUREAUCRATIC AUTONOMY16 Policy entrepreneurship within street-level bureaucracies 261Ofek Edri-Peer and Nissim Cohen17 Policy Ambiguity and Bureaucratic Autonomy in the Age of DemocraticGovernance 276Luke Fowler18 Bureaucratic Autonomy in the Age of Collaborative Governance 290Jacob Torfing19 Bad bureaucrat: administrative autonomy and bureaucracy bashing 302Jon Pierre20 To may and to shall: studying administrative autonomy from a law-as-dataapproach 312Daniel Carelli21 Seeking autonomy through commercialization: power sector governance inSub-Saharan Africa 324Maxfield J. PetersonPART V APPROACHES TO BUREAUCRATIC AUTONOMY22 Aspects of autonomy in the bureaucratic vocation 349Paul Du Gay23 Bureaucratic autonomy and accountability 368Christel KoopPART VI CONCLUSION24 Further Research on Bureaucratic Autonomy 386B. Guy Peters

‘From street-level discretion, over agency autonomy and regulatory independence to institutional design, this indispensable Handbook offers a sweeping and richly detailed review of what we need to know about bureaucratic autonomy across contexts, in different settings as well as in relation with recent evolutions, like populism, bureaucracy bashing, collaborative governance and commercialization. Written by renowned scholars and taking different perspectives from political science, public administration, policy studies, history and law, this Handbook is an essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners of public governance seeking to understand—and shape—the real-world dynamics of autonomy, accountability, and administrative power.’