THE CHALLENGE OF AUTONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE VARIOUS DIMENSIONS OF AUTONOMY
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Authors:
• Cristi IFTENE, email: cristiiftene@univ-ovidius.ro, Afiliation: Ph.D. candidate, researcher Law and Administrative Science Faculty, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania -
Keywords: Autonomy, decentralization, political influence, group interest, public policy, Autonomie, descentralizare, influenţă politică, grupuri de interese, politici publice
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Abstract:
There are various dimensions of autonomy (policy, financial, structural, personnel, legal, institutional) as different scholars demonstrated (Christensen 2001, Verhoest et. al. 2004). In the present paper we will focus only on political and financial autonomy. As Yesilkagit and van Thiel demonstrated there is a difference between formal and de facto autonomy. They found that formal autonomy does not reinforce de facto autonomy and that organizations with less autonomy report higher levels of political influence when policy autonomy is concerned.