Leaking, leak prevention, and decoupling in public administrations: the case of the European Commission

Patz, Ronny

doi:10.1080/01402382.2017.1394103

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“…Na visão de Patz (2018), o decoupling serve ao propósito de organizar sistemas de valores conflitantes, dentro e fora da administração, e para garantir o funcionamento eficaz de uma organização que precisa reconciliar vários objetivos e interesses concorrentes. Ou seja, a dissociação entre as normas e ação de atores públicos é decorrente da existência de conflito de valores dentro das organizações públicas.…”

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Evidências De Isomorfismo E Decoupling Na Gestão De Controladorias Municipais Do Estado De Minas Gerais

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Resumo: A pesquisa analisa as práticas em operação em sistemas de controle interno de municípios, buscando fatores que explicariam sua institucionalização nos governos municipais de Belo Horizonte e Uberlândia. A pesquisa valeu-se de dados coletados por meio de documentos, observação direta e entrevistas em profundidade, os quais foram analisados utilizando-se a técnica de Análise de Conteúdo.Os resultados indicam que mecanismos isomórficos, coercitivos, miméticos e normativos são utilizados no processo de institucionalização de novas práticas de controle interno nos governos subnacionais analisados, sendo as práticas adotadas sobretudo em decorrência de pressões e monitoramento de órgãos externos de controle, como os Tribunais de Contas. Além disso, percebeu-se em Belo Horizonte a autonomia organizacional da entidade, que busca por legitimação perante outros órgãos, e em Uberlândia foram constatados fatores contingenciais que prejudicam a institucionalização de novas práticas de controle, conjugados à sobrecarga de serviços operacionais para o setor, o que limita a execução de trabalhos técnicos. Nem todas as práticas de controle estão efetivamente institucionalizadas o que permitiu inferir que essas são adotadas apenas de modo cerimonial, ou seja, há presença do decoupling em práticas de controle concomitante, sobretudo na controladoria de Uberlândia. Os resultados ainda indicam que há resistência dos servidores à adoção de novas práticas de controle interno, o que influencia no seu processo de institucionalização. Percebeu-se nesse trabalho que o bom desempenho das atividades do controle interno em governos locais tende a estar relacionado à sua estrutura organizacional, autonomia, independência e existência de atores capacitados, experientes e com poder, o que aumenta o capital institucional da organização e, por consequência, sua efetividade.

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“…Others shared whatever was not labelled 'limite'. The Commission occasionally requested Council members not to engage in informal document disclosure outside of official access procedures, but its own inconsistent policy encouraged a relaxed attitude towards document sharing (respondents #13, #14, #15;Patz, 2018Patz, , p. 1057.…”

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Access to Environmental Information in the EU: A Great Policy No‐One Needs?

Hillebrandt

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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It is commonly argued that public institutions resist the advance of transparency, while civil society organisations (CSOs) are expected to advocate for more generous transparency laws that allow them to better participate in decision‐making. Remarkably, the way in which transparency developed in the Environment Council at least partially contradicts both claims. Here, the Council oversaw a steady expansion in the formal transparency policy framework, without notable resistance from the Council or its members. Yet from the outset, CSOs hardly made use of their transparency rights to obtain access. This article seeks an explanation for this apparently anomalous development in informal norms. Applying a qualitative case‐study analysis of multiple data sources, it demonstrates how informal norms develop alongside the formal access regime, implicating external actors, serving diverse and at times contradictory objectives, and showing a dynamic character over time. The findings highlight the indispensability of informality for understanding formal transparency policies.

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“…However, at the same time as state and private actors hold ever-increasing amounts of data, information, and knowledge about the public, the technical ability of public institutions to keep data, information, and knowledge secret appears to be fundamentally challenged by professionalised hacking, leaking, and whistle-blowing, as exemplified by WikiLeaks and the Snowdon affair. As Patz (2018) shows, taking effective steps against leaking is difficult and may not even be a shared ambition within organisations that have formal codes in place to prevent it.…”

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“…Ronny Patz (2018) analyses organisational practices that demonstrates the reverse case: secrecy is officially mandated, but its deliberate breach is rarely sanctioned. He explores the phenomenon of information leaks in the European Commission and asks why, despite the threat of sanctions, the Commission is not successful in stopping this practice, and hence the spreading of 'secrets' continues and is considered common practice.…”

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Secrecy in Europe

Rittberger

Goetz

2018

West European Politics

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This article introduces a collection of papers devoted to the study of secrecy in European politics across a range of EU and national settings and policy domains. Academic interest in secret politics-those aspects of public activity intentionally concealed from the public eye-and the governance of secrecy-the political processes and regulatory frameworks governing secret keeping-is growing. This interest reflects technological, social and political developments that appear to signal the end of privacy and the rapid expansion of political secrecy in European multi-level settings. As a consequence, the tensions between democratic accountability, with its transparency requirements, and political secrecy, which is typically justified on grounds of effectiveness of state action, have become more marked and more politicised. Engaging with these developments, the contributions to this collection draw on actor-and interest-centred perspectives that focus on actors' motivations in secret politics; institutional perspectives that focus on contestation over secrecy norms; and organisational perspectives that emphasise the diversity of secrecy cultures. Further research will benefit from paying special attention to a diverse range of inter-institutional and interorganisational secrecy settings; to political contestation over secrecy and the regulatory regimes that govern it; and to the refashioning of public-private secrecy architectures. KEYWORDS secrecy; transparency; privacy; european union; european politics Arguments about the justification of, and limits to, secrecy pervade European politics at both national and EU levels. For example, despite pressure by the EU on its member states to enhance transparency in the banking sector in the wake of the euro crisis, the German government and parliament are reluctant to release supervisory data relating to Germany's banks to the public (Gandrud and Hallerberg 2018). Although the European Parliament has achieved advances towards further transparency of decision making in the Council, it has largely fallen short of restricting EU governments' secrecy privileges in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (Rosén 2018). In the 'fight' against terrorism, governments have introduced targeted sanctions CONTACT Berthold rittberger

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Leaking, leak prevention, and decoupling in public administrations: the case of the European Commission

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Evidências De Isomorfismo E Decoupling Na Gestão De Controladorias Municipais Do Estado De Minas Gerais

Evidências De Isomorfismo E Decoupling Na Gestão De Controladorias Municipais Do Estado De Minas Gerais

Access to Environmental Information in the EU: A Great Policy No‐One Needs?

Secrecy in Europe

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