TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yesilkagit, Kutsal
A1  - Bezes, Philippe
A1  - Fleischer, Julia
T1  - What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy
JF  - Public administration
N2  - In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a government will cause changes in the names of ministerial units. To this end we formulate hypotheses combining the politics of structural choice and theories of portfolio allocation to examine the effects of political changes at the cabinet level on the names of intra-ministerial units. We constructed a dataset containing more than 17,000 observations on name changes of ministerial units between 1980 and 2013 from the central governments of Germany, the Netherlands, and France. We regress a series of generalized estimating equations (GEE) with population averaging models for binary outcomes. Finding variations across the three political-bureaucratic systems, we overall report positive effects of governmental change and ideological positions on name changes within ministries.
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12827
SN  - 0033-3298
SN  - 1467-9299
VL  - 100
IS  - 4
SP  - 1091
EP  - 1106
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fleischer, Julia
A1  - Bezes, Philippe
A1  - James, Oliver
A1  - Yesilkagit, Kutsal
T1  - The politics of government reorganization in Western Europe
JF  - Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions
N2  - The reorganization of governments is crucial for parties to express their policy preferences once they reach office. Yet these activities are not confined to the direct aftermath of general elections or to wide-ranging structural reforms. Instead, governments reorganize and adjust their machinery of government all the time. This paper aims to assess these structural choices with a particular focus at the core of the state, comparing four Western European democracies (Germany, France, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom) from 1980 to 2013. Our empirical analysis shows that stronger shifts in cabinets' ideological profiles in the short- and long-term as well as the units' proximity to political executives yield significant effects. In contrast, Conservative governments, commonly regarded as key promoters of reorganizing governments, are not significant for the likelihood of structural change. We discuss the effects of this politics of government reorganization for different research debates assessing the inner workings of governments.
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12670
SN  - 0952-1895
SN  - 1468-0491
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
SP  - 255
EP  - 274
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -