@article{HustedtSalomonsen2014,
  author    = {Hustedt, Thurid and Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg},
  title     = {Ensuring political responsiveness: politicization mechanisms in ministerial bureaucracies},
  series = {International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration},
  volume    = {80},
  journal   = {International review of administrative sciences : an international journal of comparative public administration},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Sage Publ.},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0020-8523},
  doi       = {10.1177/0020852314533449},
  pages     = {746 -- 765},
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{HustedtSalomonsen2014,
  author    = {Hustedt, Thurid and Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg},
  title     = {Ensuring political responsiveness},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {387},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404117},
  pages     = {20},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}