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)