@article{FleischerBezesJamesetal.2022,
  author    = {Fleischer, Julia and Bezes, Philippe and James, Oliver and Yesilkagit, Kutsal},
  title     = {The politics of government reorganization in Western Europe},
  series = {Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions},
  volume    = {36},
  journal   = {Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0952-1895},
  doi       = {10.1111/gove.12670},
  pages     = {255 -- 274},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{YesilkagitBezesFleischer2022,
  author    = {Yesilkagit, Kutsal and Bezes, Philippe and Fleischer, Julia},
  title     = {What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy},
  series = {Public administration},
  volume    = {100},
  journal   = {Public administration},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0033-3298},
  doi       = {10.1111/padm.12827},
  pages     = {1091 -- 1106},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FleischerBezesYesilkagit2023,
  author    = {Fleischer, Julia and Bezes, Philippe and Yesilkagit, Kutsal},
  title     = {Political time in public bureaucracies},
  series = {Public administration review},
  volume    = {83},
  journal   = {Public administration review},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {0033-3352},
  doi       = {10.1111/puar.13740},
  pages     = {1813 -- 1832},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Structural duration conveys stability but also resilience in central government and is therefore a key issue in the debate on the structure and organization of government. This paper discusses three core variants of structural duration to study the explanatory relevance of politics. We compare these durations across ministerialunits in four European democracies (Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Norway) from 1980 to 2013, totaling over 17,000 units. Our empirical analyses show that cabinets' ideological turnover and extremism are the most significant predictors of all variants of duration, whereas polarization in parliament as well as new prime ministers without office experience yield the predicted significant negative effects for most models. We discuss these findings and avenues for futureresearch that acknowledge the definition and measures for structural change as well as temporal aspects of the empirical phenomenon more explicitly.},
  language  = {en}
}