Evaluation of the Federal Office of Environmental Protection: Across Two Levels of Government (1996)

Abstract

In the beginning was a conflict between the Swiss parliament and a federal ministry. In the end, an institution, a federal agency was evaluated. At the very beginning, the question was whether the merging of two federal agencies would mean the creation of a higher organisational unit, for which parliamentary approval would have been necessary, or whether it is simply a question of merging the two agencies to form the Federal Office for Environmental Protection (FOEP). At the end, this new federal agency was the subject of an evaluative study. The present study is about this evaluation.

in: O. Rieper, J. Toulemonde (éds.): Politics and Practices of Intergovernmental Evaluation, New Brunswieck, New Jersey, (Transaction Publishers), 1996, p. 133–150. Copyright: We thank the editor for authorizing the publication of this article in this book.