The OECD
Readings and class materials for Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Readings
Mark Considine and Jenny M. Lewis, “Bureaucracy, Network, or Enterprise? Comparing Models of Governance in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand,” Public Administration Review 63, no. 2 (March 2003): 131–40, https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6210.00274.
Christian Schuster, Jan‐Hinrik Meyer‐Sahling, and Kim Sass Mikkelsen, “(Un)principled Principals, (Un)principled Agents: The Differential Effects of Managerial Civil Service Reforms on Corruption in Developing and OECD Countries,” Governance 33, no. 4 (October 2020): 829–48, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12461.
Igor Benati and Mario Coccia, “General Trends and Causes of High Compensation of Government Managers in the OECD Countries,” International Journal of Public Administration 41, no. 12 (September 10, 2018): 1018–31, https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2017.1318399.
Eva Thomann, Peter Hupe, and Fritz Sager, “Serving Many Masters: Public Accountability in Private Policy Implementation,” Governance 31, no. 2 (April 2018): 299–319, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12297.
Article discussion reminder
How to discuss an article in a seminar
- Who wrote the article? What’s their background?
- General summary of the article
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- How does it connect to other readings?
- How does it connect to the broader course themes?
- How does it connect to current events?
- What does it add to our Global Bureaucracy Toolkit™?
Plan for the day
Bureaucracy in the OECD
- Considine and Lewis, “Bureaucracy, Network, or Enterprise? Comparing Models of Governance in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.”
- Schuster, Meyer‐Sahling, and Mikkelsen, “(Un)principled Principals, (Un)principled Agents.”
- Benati and Coccia, “General Trends and Causes of High Compensation of Government Managers in the OECD Countries.”
- Thomann, Hupe, and Sager, “Serving Many Masters.” (see this and this and this too)