Controlling Autonomous Public Agencies as an Indicator of New Public Management
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article starts with a short description of the New Public Management (NPM) phenomenon, followed by the development of a more narrow and research-oriented conceptualization of the broader NPM concept. This paper will argue that the extent to which ex ante control of agencies is replaced by results based control is an indicator for the level of NPM orientedness. Firstly, this paper describes the extent to which the public agencies in Flanders are controlled and in which way (ex ante versus results). In particular with regard to result control, the extent or intensity of result control is investigated by looking at the completeness and scope of result control. Secondly this paper looks at the extent to which the control practices are part of the control relationship between oversight authority and agency and not only for internal organizational purposes. Thirdly, a differentiated landscape of practices for control agencies in Flanders is observed, and some explanations for this differentiated picture are presented.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it