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Can Welfare States Grow in Leaps and Bounds? Non-Incremental Policymaking in the Netherlands
The role of political ideology in the structural design of new governance agencies
This paper employs theories of structural politics and delegation to develop a set of propositions about the legislative delegation of authority to quasiâgovernmental entities, known as âquangos.â Legislators have incentives to condition their choice of structure for an organization charged with implementing policy on their own political attitudes toward âgood government.â The quasiâindependence of quangos provides credibility for legislators to commit to a process that takes policy making out of their hands while creating a structure that increases the likelihood of achieving their policy goals. Theoretical implications are empirically examined using data on the financial autonomy of Dutch public bodies. The results support the argument that it is important to consider politiciansâ ideologies directly in governance studies because they form the key component of structural politics