Delegating to the Quango: Ex Ante and Ex Post Ministerial Constraints

This article examines delegation in the environment of quasi-governmental, special purpose bodies. Better known as "quangos," these agencies present a challenge for the theory of delegation, because their tasks are often comprised of routine administration, such as the distribution of benefits and the collection of user fees, rather than more politically salient policymaking. Do (spatial) policy conflict and legislative capacity affect the conditions under which authority is delegated to quangos? What effect do "good government" ideology and legislative capacity have on the presence of ex ante and ex post control over quangos? Theoretical predictions are examined with data from a study of Dutch public bodies as well as issue scales from the Manifesto Research Group. Multinomial logit statistical models produce evidence that although policy conflict and legislative capacity measures affect the probabilities of enacting both ex ante and ex post controls, their contributions to ex post measures, as expected in the presence of important hidden action incentives, are much stronger.

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [Delegating to the Quango: Ex Ante and Ex Post Ministerial Constraints. Governance 19, 2 p229-249 (2006)], which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0491.2006.00313.x. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions: https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/self-archiving.html#3.

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Work Title Delegating to the Quango: Ex Ante and Ex Post Ministerial Constraints
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  1. Anthony Bertelli
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