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Citation link: https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/2435

Publisher DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12234
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Competence versus control: The governor's dilemma


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Authors: Abbott, Kenneth W.  
Genschel, Philipp  
Snidal, Duncan  
Zangl, Bernhard 
Abstract: 
Most governance is indirect, carried out through intermediaries. Principal–agent theory views indirect governance primarily as a problem of information: the agent has an informational advantage over the principal, which it can exploit to evade principal control. But indirect governance creates a more fundamental problem of power. Competent intermediaries with needed expertise, credibility, legitimacy, and/or operational capacity are inherently difficult to control because the policy benefits they can create (or the trouble they can cause) give them leverage. Conversely, tight governor control constrains intermediaries. The governor thus faces a dilemma: emphasizing control limits intermediary competence and risks policy failure; emphasizing intermediary competence risks control failure. This “governor's dilemma” helps to explain puzzling features of indirect governance: why it is not limited to principal–agent delegation but takes multiple forms; why governors choose forms that appear counterproductive in an informational perspective; and why arrangements are frequently unstable.
Keywords: Co-optation; Governance theory; Orchestration; Principal–agent theory; Trusteeship
Issue Date: 4-Jan-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Journal/Edited collection: Regulation & Governance 
Issue: 4
Start page: 619
End page: 636
Volume: 14
Type: Artikel/Aufsatz
ISSN: 1748-5983
Secondary publication: yes
Document version: Postprint
DOI: 10.26092/elib/2435
URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib71148
Faculty: Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) 
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