The politics of government reorganization in Western Europe
- 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.
Verfasserangaben: | Julia FleischerORCiDGND, Philippe BezesGND, Oliver JamesGND, Kutsal YesilkagitORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12670 |
ISSN: | 0952-1895 |
ISSN: | 1468-0491 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions |
Verlag: | Wiley |
Verlagsort: | Hoboken |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 01.02.2022 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 16.01.2024 |
Band: | 36 |
Ausgabe: | 1 |
Seitenanzahl: | 20 |
Erste Seite: | 255 |
Letzte Seite: | 274 |
Fördernde Institution: | Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-13-ORAR-0004-01]; Deutsche; Forschungsgemeinschaft [FL 690/3-1]; Economic and Social Research; Council [ES/M000869/1]; Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk; Onderzoek [464-13-113] |
Organisationseinheiten: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften |
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft | |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |