TY - JOUR A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - van Thiel, Sandra A1 - Steiner, Reto T1 - Administrative Tradition and Management Reforms: A Comparison of Agency Chief Executive Accountability T2 - Public Management Review N2 - 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 reforms and administrative values using survey data (N = 453). All countries combine old and new forms of accountability requirements, while legal and financial accountability have not been replaced with results accountability. Switzerland and the Netherlands score highest on results accountability, though in combination with legal and financial accountability, which are dominant in Germany and Austria. Nation-specific characteristics seem more important for core values of public administration than generic characteristics of the Rechtsstaat model. Y1 - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2380 IS - 6 SP - 765 EP - 784 ER -