Semistructured Interviews and Informal Institutions: Getting Inside Executive Government

Abstract

A ministry building in a nondescript German town in late August; interviewee stresses the apparently extensive delegation of responsibilities and decision-making to individual prison directors and away from ministry officials . [ Telephone rings ] Interviewee (from interview notes): Now listen, you have to take decisions, you are the director, you can’t always call me and shift responsibility. Sort it out. [ Slams down phone, returns to table, recorder is switched back on ] Interviewee: What a bollocks. … Asks me whether he can do this or that, they have a project team to sort this out, and he keeps on calling me. 1 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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