Ensuring political responsiveness
- 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.
Author details: | Thurid HustedtORCiDGND, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404117 |
Title of parent work (English): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe |
Subtitle (English): | politicization mechanisms in ministerial bureaucracies |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe (387) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2018/04/09 |
Publication year: | 2014 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2018/04/09 |
Tag: | central administration; ministers and civil servants; political advisers; political responsiveness; politicization; public administration |
Issue: | 387 |
Number of pages: | 20 |
Source: | International Review of Administrative Sciences 80(4) (2014), S. 746–765 DOI: 10.1177/0020852314533449 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |