Browsing Institutt for statsvitenskap by Author "Bach, Tobias"
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Bach, Tobias; van Thiel, Sandra; Hammerschmid, Gerhard; Steiner, Reto (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article investigates perceived accountability patterns of national agencies’ chief executives in four countries with a Rechtsstaat tradition and tests theoretical expectations about potential tensions between managerial ...
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Bach, Tobias (Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The idea of a clear separation between policymaking and implementation is difficult to sustain for policy bureaucracies in which public officials have “policy work” as their main activity. A diverse body of scholarship ...
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Bach, Tobias; Veit, Sylvia (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)The politicization of bureaucracy is a widespread strategy to increase the political control of ministerial departments in parliamentary democracies. It is, however, largely unknown why executive politicians promote some ...
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Veit, Sylvia; Hustedt, Thurid; Bach, Tobias (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Recent scholarship on advisory systems has focussed on the externalization of advisory capacities and sectoral dynamics of change, whereas changes of internal policy advisory systems have not yet been approached systematically. ...
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Bach, Tobias; Trondal, Jarle; Aars, Jacob; Lindén, Tord Skogedal; Martinussen, Pål Erling; Winsvold, Marte Slagsvold (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Artikkelen presenterer etableringen, organiseringen og gjennomføring av ny forskningsinfrastruktur for norsk forvaltningsforskning. Norsk Forvaltningspanel (NFP) er en forskningsinfrastruktur etablert for å gjennomføre ...
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Bach, Tobias; Boon, Jan; Boye, Stefan; Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg; Verhoest, Koen; Wegrich, Kai (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)A key argument in recent theorizing on the drivers of bureaucratic behaviour is that agencies seek to establish and maintain a unique reputation. While recent years have witnessed substantial empirical support for this ...
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Askim, Jostein; Bach, Tobias (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Artikkelen studerer tilsetting av norske toppbyråkrater i et politiseringsperspektiv og ser på sammenhengen mellom politisk bakgrunn og kompetanse. Forskningsspørsmålene er (1) om toppbyråkrater med politisk bakgrunn er ...
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Bach, Tobias (Research report / Forskningsrapport, 2021)This report outlines the steps taken to design and implement a stakeholder survey on trust and distrust in European regulatory governance and ultimately create a large, multi-actor, multi-level, multi-sector, and cross-country ...
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Bach, Tobias; Hammerschmid, Gerhard; Löffler, Lorenz (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article contributes to the literature on the politicization of appointments to increase political control over public bureaucracies with often substantial managerial and policy autonomy. Using data from a large-scale ...
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Askim, Jostein Rosfjord; Bach, Tobias; Christensen, Jørgen Grønnegård (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)A change of government or minister constitutes a stress test for the relationship between ministers and bureaucrats. The new political masters may question the loyalty of incumbent bureaucrats and seek to replace them. ...
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Zahra, Abiha; Bach, Tobias (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Organisational transitions in governments have long been discussed in the literature. While, more recently, organisational life cycle changes between birth and death have been the focus of research, a systematic comparison ...
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Bach, Tobias; Verhoest, Koen; Wynen, Jan (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Comparative scholars emphasise that public administration should be understood in terms of context-bound patterns of organising and decision-making. Agencies in the same context will display more commonalities than those ...
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Bach, Tobias; Wegrich, Kai (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The article analyses the public attribution of blame and the use of presentational strategies of blame avoidance in complex delegation structures. We theorize and empirically demonstrate that complex delegation structures ...