Control Over Government: Institutional Isomorphism and Governance Dynamics in German Public Administration
Control Over Government: Institutional Isomorphism and Governance Dynamics in German Public Administration
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对政府的控制：德国公共行政中的制度同构与治理动态
DOI：
10.1111/j.1541-0072.2005.00103.x
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发表时间：
2005
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Kai Wegrich
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作者：
M. Lodge;Kai Wegrich
据说，公共管理变革的时代对传统的“命令和控制”治理模式提出了挑战，鼓励转向更非正式的（共同）治理形式或市场型激励和竞争。无论这些主张是由改革倡导者提出的，还是由更广泛的治理辩论中持怀疑态度的观察家提出的，任何一方都很少关注那些本应促进新控制形式传播的机制。本文试图从两个方面推进这一事态。首先，它利用制度同构的概念来探讨控制方式变化的本质。特别是，它评估了变化的机制，无论是控制机制的变化，由于强制，模仿，或专业的机制。其次，它探讨了这些机制在德国的联邦背景下在两个政策领域，监狱和地方政府监督（在建筑管理领域）的影响。最后，本文认为，文化理论强调冲突的世界观和相关政策思想的多样性作为治理模式变革的驱动力，为制度同构的研究提供了相当多的见解。
The era of public management change is said to challenge traditional “command and control” modes of governance, encouraging a move toward either more informal forms of (co-) governance or market-type incentives and competition. Regardless of whether these claims are made by reform advocates or by more sceptical observers within the wider governance debate, less attention has been paid by either side on the mechanisms that are supposed to facilitate the spread of new forms of control. This article seeks to advance this state of affairs in two ways. First, it utilizes the notion of institutional isomorphism to explore the nature of change of modes of control. In particular, it assesses the mechanisms for change, whether control mechanisms are changing due to coercive, mimetic, or professional mechanisms. Second, it explores the impact of these mechanisms in the federal context of Germany in two policy domains, prison and local government supervision (in the field of building administration). Finally, this article suggests that cultural theory offers considerable insights for the study of institutional isomorphism by emphasizing conflicting worldviews and the diversity of related policy ideas as driving forces of change in modes of governance.