Despite high expectations about the results of agencification and a legal obligation to evaluate executive agencies, ministers and MPs seem not very interested in evaluating agencies’ results. Hood’s theory on blame avoidance is used to explain the lack of evaluation in the case of the Dutch ZBOs. Only one in seven ZBOs is evaluated as frequently as mandated. Findings show that ZBO evaluations are more an administrative than a political process. Reports do not offer hard evidence and are seldom used in parliamentary debates. There are no clear patterns as to which ZBOs are evaluated more, or less, often.

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回避责备、替罪羊和自旋：为什么荷兰政客不会评估 ZBO 的结果

尽管对机构化的结果寄予厚望，并且有评估执行机构的法律义务，但部长和国会议员似乎对评估机构的结果不太感兴趣。胡德的回避指责理论被用来解释荷兰 ZBO 案例中缺乏评估的原因。只有七分之一的 ZBO 按照规定的频率进行评估。调查结果表明，ZBO 评估与其说是一个政治过程，不如说是一个行政过程。报告不能提供确凿的证据，也很少用于议会辩论。关于哪些 ZBO 被评估得更多或更少，没有明确的模式。