The Partisan-Professional-Dichotomy revisited: Politicization and Decision-Making of Senior Civil Servants
| Autor: | Nadin Fromm, Sylvia Veit, Falk Ebinger |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Public Administration
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Public administration Politics State (polity) Political science 0502 economics and business Loyalty 050602 political science & public administration Contradiction 506009 Organisationstheorie 506014 Comparative politics media_common Politicization Senior Civil Servants Responsiveness Responsibility Patronage Decision-making 506009 Organisation theory 05 social sciences 502024 Public economy 502024 Öffentliche Wirtschaft 509004 Evaluationsforschung 0506 political science Test (assessment) 509004 Evaluation research 506014 Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Meritocracy Bureaucracy 050203 business & management Reputation |
| Zdroj: | Public Administration. 97:861-876 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9299 0033-3298 |
| Popis: | Politicization has an ambivalent reputation among public administration scholars. While considered an effective instrument to safeguard political control over ministerial bureaucracy, partisanship of senior civil servants is likewise associated with patronage and deemed detrimental to professionalism and meritocracy. To scrutinize this contradiction, the article examines how a party-political background of senior civil servants influences their decision-making behavior. Two theoretically derived conceptions of loyalty are put therefore to the test: responsiveness and responsibility. Effects are captured by using vignette technique in 40 in-depth interviews with former senior civil servants from ministerial departments at federal and state level in Germany. The results are surprising insofar as they reveal that politicized senior civil servants neither act more responsive nor less responsible than their non-politicized peers. These findings challenge common assumptions and call for a more refined analysis of the conditions under which politicization leads to negative effects. |
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