Bureaucratic Roles and Positions: Explaining the United States Libya Decision

Blomdahl, Mikael

doi:10.1080/09592296.2016.1137739

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“…On decision and action channels, Allison and Zelikow (1999) and Blomdahl (2016) indicate they represent regularized spaces for building collective action about particular issues. In this study, these channels represent the specific arenas where formal decisions and actions on certain issues take place through polarizations and coalitions between legitimized actors.…”

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Political dynamics in policymaking of freedom of information in Brazil

Oliveira Júnior,

Monteiro

2024

Rev. Adm. Pública

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Freedom of information (FOI) policymaking in Brazil is portrayed as a “successful story.” Data on adherence of the Brazilian legislation to international standards indicates its FOI institutions are in the top-ten group in the substantive dimension of FOI but are the last when it comes to the procedural dimension. What mechanism has driven this process to produce such ambivalence? This study assumes that FOI policymaking in Brazil represented an ambiguous legitimacy-based emulation process, oriented toward homogenization to the international field, but without breaking the governmental control over information. It draws on theoretical work on policy diffusion focusing on emulation and uses theories on conflicts and negotiation for power as drivers of policymaking. The results suggest this process was forged by political dynamics of disputes and compromises, and its outcomes derived from political trade-offs between key actors on controversial issues. Thus, the results materialized the preferences of non-governmental actors for a larger scope and no “eternal secrecy” and assured government offices’ prerogatives on implementation and their final decision on appeals. This case may represent a broader phenomenon, considering that comparative data indicates that this ambivalence in adherence between substantive and procedural dimensions is more significant in Latin America than in other regions.

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Section: Theoretical and Methodological Backgroundmentioning

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Political dynamics in policymaking of freedom of information in Brazil

Oliveira Júnior,

Monteiro

2024

Rev. Adm. Pública

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“…Sobre os canais de decisão e ação, Allison e Zelikow (1999) e Blomdahl (2016) indicam que eles representam espaços regularizados para a construção de ações coletivas sobre questões específicas. Neste estudo, esses canais representam as arenas específicas onde ocorrem decisões e ações formais sobre determinadas questões por meio de polarizações e coalizões entre atores legitimados.…”

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Dinâmica Política da Formulação da Política de Acesso à Informação no Brasil

Oliveira Júnior,

Monteiro

2024

Rev. Adm. Pública

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Resumo A formulação da política de acesso à informação no Brasil é retratada como uma “história de sucesso”. Dados sobre a aderência da legislação brasileira aos padrões internacionais indica que suas instituições de acesso estão entre as dez primeiras na dimensão substantiva, mas são as últimas entre elas na dimensão processual. Que mecanismo conduziu esse processo para produzir tal ambivalência? Este estudo assume que a formulação da política de acesso no Brasil representou um processo ambíguo de emulação baseado em legitimidade, orientado para a homogeneização frente ao campo internacional, mas sem quebrar o controle governamental da informação. Este artigo se baseia em trabalhos teóricos sobre difusão de políticas com foco na emulação e aborda teorias sobre conflitos e negociação pelo poder como condutores da formulação de políticas. Os resultados sugerem que a dinâmica política de disputas e acomodação de interesses forjaram esse processo e seus resultados derivaram de trade-offs políticos entre atores-chave em questões controversas. Desta forma, materializaram as preferências dos atores não-governamentais por maior abrangência e nenhum “sigilo eterno”, mas também asseguraram a órgãos públicos as prerrogativas de implementação e decisão final sobre recursos. Este caso pode representar um fenômeno mais amplo, considerando que dados comparativos indicam que essa ambivalência na adesão entre as dimensões substantiva e processual da América Latina é maior do que em outras regiões.

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“…Another post-recruitment factor that has been investigated in the literature is ministries' and agencies' "different functions within different technical and political task environments" (West, 2005, p. 157). The organizations' different functions contribute to frame the individual organization members' role perceptions and attitudes (Blomdahl, 2016;Ehn et al, 2003;Trondal, 2006). However, none of the work applying this "organizational specialization" perspective (Trondal et al, 2018, p. 90) controls for intra-organizational specializations, i.e.…”

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Role Models in the Senior Civil Service: How Tasks Frame the Identification of Senior Bureaucrats with Active and Reactive Roles

Ebinger

Veit

Strobel

2021

International Journal of Public Administration

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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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Bureaucratic Roles and Positions: Explaining the United States Libya Decision

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

Political dynamics in policymaking of freedom of information in Brazil

Political dynamics in policymaking of freedom of information in Brazil

Dinâmica Política da Formulação da Política de Acesso à Informação no Brasil

Role Models in the Senior Civil Service: How Tasks Frame the Identification of Senior Bureaucrats with Active and Reactive Roles

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