Cooking the books: Bureaucratic politicization and policy knowledge
| Autor: | Christian Schuster, Frida Boräng, Marcia Grimes, Agnes Cornell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Public Administration Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Credence 05 social sciences Public policy Public administration Public good Autocracy 16. Peace & justice 0506 political science Argument Political economy 0502 economics and business Agency (sociology) 050602 political science & public administration Economics Bureaucracy Polity 050207 economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Boräng, F, Cornell, A, Grimes, M & Schuster, C 2018, ' Cooking the Books: Bureaucratic Politicization and Policy Knowledge ', Governance: An international journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 7-26 . https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12283 |
| ISSN: | 0952-1895 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/gove.12283 |
| Popis: | Accurate knowledge about societal conditions and public policies is an important public good in any polity, yet governments across the world differ dramatically in the extent to which they collect and publish such knowledge. This article develops and tests the argument that this variation to some extent can be traced to the degree of bureaucratic politicization in a polity. A politicized bureaucracy offers politicians greater opportunities to demand from bureaucrats—and raises incentives for bureaucrats to supply—public policy knowledge that is strategically biased or suppressed in a manner that benefits incumbents reputationally. Due to electoral competition, we suggest that the link between bureaucratic politicization and politicized policy knowledge will be stronger in democracies than in autocracies. A case analysis of Argentina's statistical agency lends credence to the underlying causal mechanism. Time-series cross-sectional analyses confirm the broader validity of the expectations and show that the relationship is present only in democracies. |
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