01708nam a22001577a 4500999001900000008004100019100002900060245012400089260002800213300003200241520110900273773002801382906002601410942000701436952010701443  c517069d517069210628b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWynenm Jan. et al926016  aKeeping a watchful eye in times of turmoil? How repeated structural reform leads to more attention to political signals  aPublic Administration    a98(3), Sep, 2020: p.570-590  aAn important rationale for the creation of semi-autonomous agencies is to create some distance between politics and administration. As such, agencies are expected to shield policy implementation from the daily concerns of political life. However, political actors and politically controlled ministries still influence agencies in various intended and unintended ways. This article focuses on intensive long-term series of structural reforms and how they may undermine the original design philosophy underpinning agencification. We utilize a dataset combining staff surveys and a structural reform database to perform multilevel analyses of employees nested in organizations. We find that the frequency with which agencies have experienced structural reform affects the weight that employees attach to signals from political and ministerial principals. Frequent structural reform may lead to heightened perceptions of the importance of political signals. Hence, frequent structural reforms may increase the risk of political influence on agencies that were designed to operate impartially. – Reproduced   aPublic Administration    aPUBLIC ADMINISTRATION  cAR  00102ddc40709391134aIIPAbIIPAd2021-06-28h98(3), Sep, 2020: p.570-590pAR124522r2021-06-28yAR