The role of agencies in policy-making: explaining variation in ministry-agency relations in Germany

Tobias Bach

No 258, Apas Papers from Academic Public Administration Studies Archive - APAS

Abstract: This paper analyzes the effect of task characteristics, structural and cultural features on the agencies' role perceptions. I distinguish two role perceptions which are associated with different types of ministry-agency relations, namely the agency as policy-maker and the agency as expert. These distinct role perceptions are outlined in the following paragraph. The paper is structured as follows: The next paragraph summarizes the literature on the role of agencies in policy-making, especially focussing on federal agencies in Germany. After that, I present the theoretical framework of the paper and develop several hypotheses on how task, structural and cultural characteristics will affect agencies' role perceptions. Then I outline the method and data for the empirical analysis, which is a comprehensive survey of federal agencies in Germany conducted by the author in 2008. Next the results from the statistical analysis (descriptive statistics, ANOVA and multivariate regressions) are presented and discussed, followed by some concluding remarks.

Keywords: policy-making; agency; decision-making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-10-20
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