TY  - GEN
A1  - Hustedt, Thurid
A1  - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg
T1  - Ensuring political responsiveness
BT  - politicization mechanisms in ministerial bureaucracies
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Although politicization is a perennial research topic in public administration to investigate relationships between ministers and civil servants, the concept still lacks clarification. This article contributes to this literature by systematically identifying different conceptualizations of politicization and suggests a typology including three politicization mechanisms to strengthen the political responsiveness of the ministerial bureaucracy: formal, functional and administrative politicization. The typology is empirically validated through a comparative case analysis of politicization mechanisms in Germany, Belgium, the UK and Denmark. The empirical analysis further refines the general idea of Western democracies becoming ‘simply’ more politicized, by illustrating how some politicization mechanisms do not continue to increase, but stabilize – at least for the time being.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 387 
KW  - central administration
KW  - ministers and civil servants
KW  - political advisers
KW  - political responsiveness
KW  - politicization
KW  - public administration
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404117
IS  - 387
ER  -