Tobias Bach

Best Publications

• Animals in the administrative zoo: organizational change and agency autonomy in Germany

  Tobias Bach;Werner Jann

  135
  Citations

• NETWORKING FOR AUTONOMY? NATIONAL AGENCIES IN EUROPEAN NETWORKS

  Tobias Bach;Eva Ruffing

  102
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• The Determinants of Promotion to High Public Office in Germany: Partisan Loyalty, Political Craft, or Managerial Competencies?

  Tobias Bach;Sylvia Veit

  101
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• Transnational bureaucratic politics : an institutional rivalry perspective on EU network governance

  Tobias Bach;Fabrizio De Francesco;Martino Maggetti;Eva Ruffing

  100
  Citations

• The role of agencies in policy-making

  Tobias Bach;Birgitta Niklasson;Martin Painter

  72
  Citations

• Policy and Management Autonomy of Federal Agencies in Germany

  Tobias Bach

  69
  Citations

• The Differential Empowering Effects of Europeanization on the Autonomy of National Agencies

  Tobias Bach;Eva Ruffing;Kutsal Yesilkagit

  59
  Citations

• More delegation, more political control? Politicization of senior-level appointments in 18 European countries:

  Tobias Bach;Gerhard Hammerschmid;Lorenz Löffler

  57
  Citations

• Dynamics of change in internal policy advisory systems: the hybridization of advisory capacities in Germany

  Sylvia Veit;Thurid Hustedt;Tobias Bach

  40
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• Administrative tradition and management reforms: a comparison of agency chief executive accountability in four Continental Rechtsstaat countries

  Tobias Bach;Sandra van Thiel;Gerhard Hammerschmid;Reto Steiner

  39
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• The autonomy of government agencies in Germany and Norway: explaining variation in management autonomy across countries and agencies:

  Tobias Bach

  35
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• Blind Spots, Biased Attention, and the Politics of Non-coordination

  Tobias Bach;Kai Wegrich

  30
  Citations

• The Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracy and the Politics of Non‐Coordination

  Tobias Bach;Kai Wegrich

  29
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• The politics of blame avoidance in complex delegation structures: the public transport crisis in Berlin

  Tobias Bach;Kai Wegrich

  29
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• Organizing Leviathan: Politicians, bureaucrats, and the making of good government

  Tobias Bach

  26
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• Regulatory agencies, reputational threats, and communicative responses

  Tobias Bach;Marlene Jugl;Dustin Köhler;Kai Wegrich

  21
  Citations

• How to Deal with the Blind Spots of Public Bureaucracies

  Tobias Bach;Kai Wegrich

  19
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• The involvement of agencies in policy formulation: Explaining variation in policy autonomy of federal agencies in Germany

  Tobias Bach

  15
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• Politicians and Bureaucrats in Executive Government

  Tobias Bach;Kai Wegrich

  10
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