Role Models in the Senior Civil Service: How Tasks Frame the Identification of Senior Bureaucrats with Active and Reactive Roles
| Autor: | Falk Ebinger, Sylvia Veit, Bastian Strobel |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Public Administration
506002 E-government Civil service Civil servants 505027 Administrative studies Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration 506009 Organisationstheorie Business and International Management 506014 Comparative politics 506009 Organisation theory business.industry 05 social sciences Frame (networking) 502024 Public economy Public relations Senior civil servants role perceptions bureaucratic role models organizational socialization bureaucratic postures 502024 Öffentliche Wirtschaft 509004 Evaluationsforschung 0506 political science 509004 Evaluation research Identification (information) 506014 Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Elite 505027 Verwaltungslehre Survey data collection business 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Public Administration. :1-12 |
| ISSN: | 1532-4265 0190-0692 |
| Popis: | The influence of senior civil servants’ (SCS) tasks on their role perceptions has been widely ignored in the past research on the administrative élite. This paper presents new survey data on SCS in German federal ministries to test this relation by categorizing SCS into three task-related groups: strategists, policy specialists and administrators. Regression analyses reveal that SCS’s tasks do not influence their (strong) identification with reactive (supportive) roles but have a significant impact on their identification with active, more politically entrepreneurial roles. This entails two important findings: First, SCS’s tasks matter for their appreciation of different roles. Second, active and reactive role models are not irreconcilable (as it is often argued in the literature on bureaucratic politicization), but complementary. |
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