Improving public accountability by aligning reporting to organizational changes in public service provision - an empirical Internet study of all Austrian, German and Swiss towns and states from an agency-theory perspective

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 555-576

  Papenfuß, Ulf ^a   Schaefer, Christina ^a  

^a HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

accountability; agency theory; decentralization; public sector reporting; public services; transparency

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; DECENTRALIZATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FEDERAL SYSTEM; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE; PUBLIC SECTOR; PUBLIC SERVICE; SERVICE PROVISION; URBAN POLITICS;

AUSTRIA; GERMANY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77956946489     PISSN: 00208523     EISSN: 14617226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0020852310372451     Document Type: Article

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