Navigating the Borderlines of Politics and Administration: Reflections on the Role of Ministerial Advisers

Connaughton, Bernadette

doi:10.1080/01900692.2014.952820

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“…At the higher levels of public administration, the typical sub‐role is the so‐called ‘minders’. This category fits the profile of a coterie of assistants that act as gatekeepers to their political bosses and become their ‘eyes, ears and mouth’ (LSE GV314 Group and Page , p. 5; Connaughton ). In Mexico, this category of appointees has been traditionally called ‘cliques’ ( camarillas ) (Langston ), a term that gives a good idea of the nature of the relationship with their patrons.…”

Section: A Typology Of Patronage Rolesmentioning

confidence: 92%

Roles, trust and skills: A typology of patronage appointments

Panizza

Peters

Larraburu

2018

Public Administration

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This article contributes to the study of the politics of patronage appointments by creating a typology of patronage roles based on the nature of trust between patrons and appointees and on the skills patrons seek in appointees. Our classification brings together the dispersed literature on patronage roles and can be applied to the study of modalities of patronage across and within countries.We offer preliminary evidence from our study of the politics of patronage appointments in Latin America suggesting that variations in patronage roles can be related to variations in the institutionalization of party systems and to the nature of the links between political actors and voters. Finally, we explore whether the categories identified in our empirical study can be found in other settings.We conclude that our typology can contribute to the study of the impact of modalities of patronage on the quality of public administration and on political governability.

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Section: A Typology Of Patronage Rolesmentioning

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Roles, trust and skills: A typology of patronage appointments

Panizza

Peters

Larraburu

2018

Public Administration

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“…Tittelen på disse rådgiverne, og ikke minst antall, varierer imidlertid mye fra land til land. 1 Innenfor en gren av statsvitenskapen har det de siste tiårene vokst frem en litteratur som fokuserer på denne «grå eminensen» (Connaughton 2015), som ofte opererer «i mørket» (Blick 2004). Den såkalte ministerial advisory-litteraturen har både fokusert på veksten i rådgivere, samt hvilke konkrete arbeidsoppgaver og overordnede roller disse har (Connaughton 2010a(Connaughton , 2010bEichbaum og Shaw 2010;Maley 2011).…”

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“…Når det gjelder hva rådgiverne gjør, har flere studier klassifisert hvilke ulike typer råd disse aktørene gir sine ministre (Craft og Howlett 2012), og kartlagt hvilke arbeidsoppgaver og roller de har (Connaughton 2010b;Eichbaum og Shaw 2011;Maley 2000). Det er også gjort ulike forsøk på å teoretisere rundt disse aktørene, blant annet ved å benytte og videreutvikle etablerte teorier som prinsipal-agent teori (Shaw og Eichbaum 2012:4, 2015, public service bargains (De Visscher and Salomonsen 2013; Shaw and Eichbaum 2017) og core executive-rammeverk (Connaughton 2015;Craft 2015;Shaw og Eichbaum 2014). I Norge har de politisk ansatte og utnevnte i departementene knapt vaert gjenstand for statsvitenskapelig forskning.…”

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De politiske rådgiverne: unge broilere eller betrodde (fag)medarbeidere?

Kolltveit

Thorsen

2018

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Denne artikkelen handler om politiske rådgivere i departementene i Norge, og spør retorisk om rådgiverne er unge broilere eller betrodde medarbeidere. Selv om politiske rådgivere har eksistert i Norge siden etterkrigstiden, er det lite systematisk, statsvitenskapelig forskning som har kastet lys over deres virke i regjeringsapparatet. Statssekretaerenes økte betydning har blitt grundigere belyst i de senere år, mens det knapt er noen studier som sier noe om de politiske rådgivernes rolle i det norske systemet. Denne artikkelen benytter registerdata, spørreundersøkelse og intervju for å undersøke de politiske rådgivernes betydning. Konklusjonen er at de politiske rådgiverne langt fra bare er politiske broilere, unge partifolk primaert med sekretaeroppgaver for statsråden. De politiske rådgiverne har i hovedsak høy utdanning og bred erfaringsbakgrunn, og enkelte fungerer som ministerens avlaster, med omfattende delegert beslutningsmyndighet. Laerdommen fra denne artikkelen er at slike betrodde medarbeidere i regjeringsapparatet har en naturlig plass i statsvitenskapelig analyse når politiske beslutningsprosesser i Norge skal beskrives og forklares.

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“…First, we apply Eichbaum and Shaw's (2008) theoretical framework of administrative politicization outside the Westminster context and thereby answer their call to 'enrich our understanding of the milieu and practices of political advisers' (Shaw and Eichbaum 2015a, p. 73;cf. also Hustedt and Salomonsen 2014;Connaughton 2015). Administrative politicization refers to political advisers' intervention in the relationship between a minister and the permanent civil service with the effect that the latter's effort to provide frank and fearless advice to the former is disturbed or obstructed (Eichbaum and Shaw 2008, p. 343).…”

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Administrative Politicization or Contestability? How Political Advisers Affect Neutral Competence in Policy Processes

Öhberg

Christiansen

Niklasson

2016

Public Administration

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There is limited empirical research on the extent to which politicized recruitment of ministerial advisers affects the quality of the policy process. In this article we take a novel step by looking at two possible consequences of increased political recruitment for the policy process: administrative politicization and contestability. We deploy a Most Similar Systems comparison of Denmark and Sweden and include survey answers from 657 civil servants in managerial positions. We find that political recruitment of top civil servants, such as Swedish state secretaries, restricts the access of the civil service to the minister, but it does not substantially politicize the policy process. Danish civil servants perceive themselves as more contested by the relatively few Danish political advisers than their Swedish colleagues. Our results imply that the organization of political advice is a crucial factor for politicization and contestability

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Navigating the Borderlines of Politics and Administration: Reflections on the Role of Ministerial Advisers

Cited by 46 publications

References 26 publications

Roles, trust and skills: A typology of patronage appointments

Roles, trust and skills: A typology of patronage appointments

De politiske rådgiverne: unge broilere eller betrodde (fag)medarbeidere?

Administrative Politicization or Contestability? How Political Advisers Affect Neutral Competence in Policy Processes

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