Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy

Vittori, Davide; Paulis, Emilien; Pilet, Jean‐Benoît; Rojon, Sebastien

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102566

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“…Recent studies, including ours, indeed, indicate that there is a real appeal for technocrats in power (Bertsou and Pastorella, 2017;Chiru and Enyedi, 2022;Lavezzolo et al, 2021;Rojon et al, 2023). However, there are also signs that this support is limited and that citizens are not willing to give up too much power to technocrats (Vittori et al, 2023a). After all, the few examples of technocrats creating their parties and running for elections have not been real success stories (the case of Mario Monti in Italy, being probably the most known).…”

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Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries

Vittori

Pilet

Paulis

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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The literature on technocracy has shown that expertise is a crucial factor in driving support for technocrats. However, the literature has not investigated yet what happens when technocrats are opposed to partisan experts. In this article, we want to fill this gap by analysing the support for two potential ministers of health with relevant expertise for their portfolio but with a different relationship to partisan politics. For this purpose, we run a novel survey in 14 European countries with more than 20,000 respondents. Our main results show that non-partisan experts are preferred over partisan experts across Europe, both when citizens have a high sympathy and a low sympathy for the party appointing the minister. However, in the latter case, the effect is more evident.

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Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries

Vittori

Pilet

Paulis

2023

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Recent studies have been carried out on Greece (Soulitis, Klironomos and Karoulas, 2023), Italy (Vittori et al, 2023), Austria (Helms, 2022), Portugal (Pinto and Tavares de Almeida, 2018), and several other countries (Kaltenegger and Ennser-Jedenastik, 2022;Brunclík and Parízek, 2018;Pastorella, 2015). Similar studies on Romania were carried out by Laurențiu Ștefan (2009; Ilonszki and Ștefan, 2018, pp.…”

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Who Runs Public Administration? A Longitudinal Study of Technocratic Ministerial Appointments in Post-Communist Romania (1991–2021)

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MINA-RAIU

2023

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Starting from the traditional public administration dichotomy ‘power versus knowledge’, concerned with the cleavage between politicians and bureaucrats, this paper’s main purpose is to reframe a classic theoretical model, by placing the spotlight on a new, under-conceptualized public sector actor: the technocrat. Second, the paper performs empirical research starting from an own-build comprehensive database that includes all the ministers appointed in the Romanian Government during a 30-year timeframe (October 1991-November 2021). In spite of being a rather young democracy with a communist public sector legacy, research findings indicate that in Romania we can clearly identify patterns similar to other European countries (primarily Italy), consisting of appointing technocrats to the cabinet. Such nominations are discussed in correlation with the advancements of new theories of democracy and public administration, imprinted with Neoliberalism, New Public Management, and Good Governance paradigms.

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Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries

Vittori,

Paulis

2024

Acta Polit

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Do technocrats boost the acceptance of policy proposals among the citizenry? Evidence from a survey experiment in Italy

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries

Technocracy above partisanship? Comparing the appeal of non-partisan and partisan experts as ministers – A survey in 14 countries

Who Runs Public Administration? A Longitudinal Study of Technocratic Ministerial Appointments in Post-Communist Romania (1991–2021)

Experts replacing governments? The socio-cultural and authoritarian roots of citizens’ preferences for experts in government in 58 countries

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