Consequences of a politicized public service system: Perspectives of politicians, public servants, and political experts

Peters, B. Guy; Danaeefard, Hassan; Torshab, Abdolali Ahmadzahi; Mostafazadeh, Masoumeh; Hashemi, Mortaza

doi:10.1111/polp.12447

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“…In totalitarian regimes, such as the one in Iran, a whole array of socialization agents is worked on or mobilized to help young people gain an understanding of the political world. Among these agents are the family, the education system, the mass media, and other social institutions that the government uses to serve its agenda (Peters et al, 2022). Furthermore, some studies such as the one done by Greenstein (2017) suggested that the children's first conception of political authority is more based on emotion than cognition.…”

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Young People and Fascism Propaganda in Iran: A Critical Analysis of the Anthem ‘Hail Commander’

Matin

2024

IJHS

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Since its inception in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has enormously capitalized on exploiting youths, from the recruitment of child soldiers during the Iran-Iraq war to deployments of underage boys and girls for political socialization. Political socialization, in this sense, has involved reinforcing Shia/Revolutionary ideologies through mobilizing young people for various cultural activities and propaganda campaigns. As part of these efforts, and in line with IRI’s mounting domestic and international struggles, since March 2022, the government has heavily invested in propagating ‘Hail Commander’, an anthem produced and broadcast by the state-run media. Exclusively performed by 7-14 years old children in uniforms, the content of this anthem (lyrics and visual features) bears a close resemblance to the lyrics of Giovinezza (Juvenility) of fascist Italy (1924-1943) and the political ideals promoted by Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) in Nazi Germany (1926-1945). By drawing on theories of fascism, propaganda, and political socialization, and using comparative critical analysis, this study reveals the underlying propagandist messages in Hail Commander and its relations to the fascist/Nazi praxis and ideologies. It is further argued that the creation of Hail Commander should be seen as the revival of the child soldier phenomenon, albeit in the form of media representation.

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Young People and Fascism Propaganda in Iran: A Critical Analysis of the Anthem ‘Hail Commander’

Matin

2024

IJHS

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“…Voters adhere to a political party to have access to jobs in public institutions (Peters and Bianchi, 2023), and this is a form of vote buying when voters are promised public jobs (Volintiru, 2015). Peters et al (2022) argue that the goal of politicization in developing countries is to provide jobs for party members and loyal people, while in developed countries, politicization is used to control the policy-making process.…”

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“…Overall, politicization is a pervasive issue that lowers the capabilities of public employees, corruption, and lowers trust in public institutions and political leaders (Peters et al, 2022). When political appointments duplicate the existing positions, the government becomes big, loses resources, and the work commitment of non-political civil servants lowers.…”

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"Politicization of Public Administration in Romania and its Consequences for Governance in Turbulent Times"

RADU,

RADU

2023

TRAS

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The article aims to analyze the level of politicization of civil service in Romania, its goals, and consequences. We adopted a rather narrow perspective on politicization and we concentrated mainly on analyzing the recruitment, promotion, and dismissal of civil servants based on political criteria. The research findings were used to discuss the consequences of politicization on the governance of public institutions during turbulent times. In this regard, we conducted an email-based survey of the civil servants. The majority of the sample was composed of graduates of public administration programs at four major universities in Romania, who work in public institutions. We collected the data between May and November 2023 and we obtained 211 valid questionnaires. We found that appointments based on political criteria lower the work motivation of public employees, and increase the level of incompetence and instability of public institutions. The most affected are public employees in management positions, those who have longer work experience in the public sector, and those who work in public institutions that are part of central administration. Therefore, frequent changes based on political criteria lower the capacity of public institutions to respond to disruptive events by generating a loss of expertise, instability, and discontinuity in policy implementation. However, turbulent times require flexibility and adaptation to unexpected and unpredictable events, and political appointees might be more responsive and cooperative.

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“…Taken together, we thus anticipate that this volume will offer a retrospective snapshot of the history of the journal that promises to be as interesting in its own right as it is useful for mapping areas for future research.We hope you enjoy the articles in this issue of P&P which, as is now customary, span a multitude of policy questions from a comparative international perspective. In this issue, we traverse the subfields of energy infrastructure (You et al, 2022), public service and policy experts in the Middle East (Peters et al, 2022) and China (Shen et al, 2020), environmental accidents in China (Zang, 2022), natural resource conservation in the United States (Dunning, 2022) and Africa (Ayanoore & Hickey, 2022), referendum rules in New Zealand (McKay, 2022), and problems with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) (Bishwakarma & Zongshan, 2022). Keep safe and well in the ongoing pandemic and we look forward to your continued article submissions as well as your P&P past article reviews (which will receive expedited peer review…”

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Note from the Editors: Celebrating Politics & Policy'sHalf‐Centenary

Norman¹,

Alemán²

2022

Politics & Policy

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Welcome to the first issue of Politics & Policy's 50th volume! From its inception in 1973, this distinguished journal has transitioned from the Georgia Political Science Journal, to the Southeastern Political Review, to Politics & Policy (P&P) at the turn of the millennium. In all its incarnations, P&P has prioritized rigorous original research and sound contribution to political science and policy studies presented in exceptionally clear, elegant, and jargon-free language. The result is a collection of over 1000 peer-reviewed articles published over the last 49 years-all of which make the politics and policy issues of yesterday, today, and tomorrow accessible, thought-provoking, and as academically meticulous as they are useful.It seems nowhere near a decade ago that we introduced the 40th volume of P&P (Norman, 2012) with the journal's move to online-only publication and concomitant tips for authors on "Maximizing Journal Article Citation Online: Readers, Robots, and Research Visibility." The last 10 years have seen a major transition in scholarly online awareness and how it is reflected in academic articles, as well as a large increase in the quality and quantity of journal submissions. To celebrate P&P's half-century, we wish to highlight the evolution of the research published in this journal over the last few decades. Doing so will not only offer an interesting snapshot of the journal's transformation. It will also identify important elements of scholarly evolution within the political and policy sciences more generally.Therefore, in addition to your usual article submissions falling under our customary aims and scope, 1 we especially invite you to submit pieces reviewing one or more of the eras of P&P publications of the last 20 years, or one policy subfield and its evolution over time in some of the articles in this journal. How have approaches, arguments, and/or methodological foci differed over time in the articles you select? What can be gleaned from the change in trends concerning article subject matter that can be applied to the discipline more generally? We will be covering several elements spanning these and other questions in our Note from the Editors in each issue of P&P this year. What we highlight as editors in terms of submission trends, contributor locations worldwide, or special issue topic proposals, for instance, will certainly be enhanced by your in-depth systematic review essays or shorter commentary synopses of past P&P publications in your area. Taken together, we thus anticipate that this volume will offer a retrospective snapshot of the history of the journal that promises to be as interesting in its own right as it is useful for mapping areas for future research.We hope you enjoy the articles in this issue of P&P which, as is now customary, span a multitude of policy questions from a comparative international perspective. In this issue, we traverse the subfields of energy infrastructure (You et al., 2022), public service and policy experts in the Middle East (Peters et al., 2022) an...

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Consequences of a politicized public service system: Perspectives of politicians, public servants, and political experts

Cited by 9 publications

References 39 publications

Young People and Fascism Propaganda in Iran: A Critical Analysis of the Anthem ‘Hail Commander’

Young People and Fascism Propaganda in Iran: A Critical Analysis of the Anthem ‘Hail Commander’

"Politicization of Public Administration in Romania and its Consequences for Governance in Turbulent Times"

Note from the Editors: Celebrating Politics & Policy'sHalf‐Centenary

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