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Regulatory Reform, Accountability and Blame in Public Service Delivery: The Public Transport Crisis in Berlin

  • Introduction Among the many promises of reforms of the ‘regulatory state’ type, the clarification of account - ability relations features prominently. While not always using the language of accountability, a major argument against the state as direct provider of a range of public services was that accountability relations were unclear: state providers of services such as telecommunications and transport were hybrids between commercial enterprises and public service providers that were largely self-regulatory in terms of service provision and technical safety (Lodge and Wegrich 2012). The governance of such enterprises allowed political logics to trump economic rationales, and it was unclear in how far the management of these companies should follow either a political or a managerial logic, as they had to provide ‘essential public services’ in an economically efficient way.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Tobias Bach, Kai WegrichORCiD
Editor(s):Tom Christensen, Per Lægreid
Parent Title (English):The Routledge Handbook to Accountability and Welfare State Reforms in Europe
Publisher:Routledge
Place of Publisher:London
Publication year:2016
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
Number pages:14
DOI:https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315612713
ISBN:9781315612713
Release Date:2020/03/03
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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