Revisiting Politicization
Political Advisers and Public Servants in Westminster Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6263718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Eichbaum (0000-0002-8745-7358, Victoria School of Management), Richard Shaw (0000-0002-7906-6066, Massey University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 337-363 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2008.00403.x |
| OpenAlex | W1981545764 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 90 |
| References cited | 21 |
In recent times much has been made of the threat some argue is posed by political advisers to the impartiality of the Westminster civil service. Drawing on survey of senior New Zealand civil servants, this article examines the degree to which political advisers are perceived as a threat to civil service neutrality and describes the form taken by that threat as variously perceived. On the evidence reported, it is suggested that traditional understandings of “politicization” need to be reconceptualized if they are to fully account for the nature of the relationship between political and civil service advisers. To existing conceptions of politicization, therefore, the article proposes adding another: “administrative politicization,” allowing for different gradations of politicization to be identified, and enabling a nuanced assessment of the nature and extent of a risk to civil service neutrality that, the data suggest, is not as great as is sometimes alleged
Civil servants · Civil service · Economics · Economy · Impartiality · Neutrality · Political science · Politics · Public service · Service (business · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Systems and Governance · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research
Administrative Traditions
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Civil Service Reforms, Public Service Bargains and Dynamics of Institutional Change
Does politicization influence senior public officials’ work attitudes? Different forms and effects of politicization in the civil service
The politicization of civil service recruitment and promotion in Vietnam
Politicization of the Bureaucracy across and within Administrative Traditions
The Liability of Tribe in Corporate Political Activity
Personality Traits and Agency Politicization
When Reforms Becomes Symbolic
From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas
Bridging the Archipelago
Lobbying the executives
Policy consulting in developing countries
Politics and the permanency of permanent secretaries
Enhancing policy delivery
Decentralization, District Chief Executives, and District Assemblies in G hana's Fourth Republic
Academic Engagement in Policymaking
The nature of political advising to prime ministers in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK
Appointed political staffs and the diversification of policy advisory sources
The dual dynamics of policy advisory systems
The prime minister's chief of staff
More delegation, more political control? Politicization of senior-level appointments in 18 European countries
The Politicization Conversation
A signal failure
Maintaining neutrality in the Minister's office
Bad governance in Australia and how to mitigate it
What do ministers and their advisers say to the critics of Public–Private Partnerships? Results from a mixed‐methods study
Neutral – Neither Trustees nor Hired Guns
Why do politicians employ public–private partnerships? Results from a mixed‐method study
L'émergence de l'étude d'impact comme norme de gouvernance en Europe
The demand for advice at the European Union level
Metagovernance, political demand and policy advice
Policy capacity
How does policy advice of the international monetary fund differ along the income of advised countries
Comparing policy advisory systems beyond the OECD
Revisiting demand, politicization and externalization in authoritarian political regimes
Policy advice in an authoritarian environment
Personal or Party Roots of Civil Service Patronage? Ministerial Change Effects on the Appointments of Top Civil Servants
Bureaucratic Identity and the Resistance of Politicization
Procedural Rationality in Westminster Systems
Strategic Links in a Cut‐throat World
Political advisers in Portugal
Ministerial advisers in executive government
Politicians, political advisers and the vocabulary of public service bargains
Administrative Politicization or Contestability? How Political Advisers Affect Neutral Competence in Policy Processes
Bubbling up or cascading down? Public servants, political advisers and politicization
Political control of coordination? The roles of ministerial advisers in government coordination in Denmark and Sweden
Still friends? Revisiting New Zealand public servants’ perceptions of ministerial advisers
Assessing 30 years of Westminster policy advisory system experience
Conceptualizing the policy work of partisan advisers
Ensuring political responsiveness
Linking administrative career patterns and politicization
Politicization within the European Commission’s bureaucracy
Comparing local politicians’ and bureaucrats’ assessments of democratic participation
Explaining differences in ministerial ménages à trois
The changing and enduring priorities of Deputy Ministers through the Ipac survey
Academic research and engagement with the Canadian public service
Trust but verify
Moving On, But Where? A Snapshot of Ontario Ministerial Staff Career Trajectories
Les cabinets ministériels au Québec
Specialists, spinners and networkers
Democratic Communication and the Role of Special Advisers in Northern Ireland’s Consociational Government
Consultocracy and its discontents
Burocratas em ministérios
Policy advisory systems and public policy making
Speaking truth to power
The Downing Street Chief-of-Staff
Does politics crowd out professional competence? The organisation of ministerial advice in Denmark and Sweden
Who Does What Work in a Ministerial Office
Responsive to whom? Political advising and elected careers in institutionalized democracies
The Prime Ministerialisation of the British Prime Minister
Political Staff and the Gendered Division of Political Labour in Canada
Ministers, Minders and the Core Executive
Non-Partisan Advisors in the Minister’s Office—Ghosts in the Core Executive Machine
The lessons of failure
Theorising policy advisory system management
Policy formulation, governance shifts and policy influence
Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy
Governance in the Age of Digital Media and Branding
Does the cradle of power exist? Sequence analysis of top bureaucrats' career trajectories
Politicisation of the Czech Republic’s ministries
Spending on Political Staffers and the Revealed Preferences of Cabinet
Duplicative or Complementary? The Relationship between Policy Consulting and Internal Policy Analysis in Canadian Government
The accountability of ministerial staff in Australia
Political Staff in Executive Government
What Makes a Technocrat
The Minister Wants it
Leaving the Senior Civil Service – public service bargain and beyond
Public Service in Times of Politicized Crisis
Do Administrative Traditions Matter for Climate Change Adaptation Policy? A Comparative Analysis of 32 High-Income Countries
The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective
In the Wake of ‘A Certain Maritime Incident’
Politicisation of Senior Appointments in the Australian Public Service
Politicisation and the Australian Public Service
Too Many or Too Few? The Increase in Federal Ministerial Advisers 1972–1999
Australian Ministerial Advisers and the Royal Commission on Government Administration
A Return to Spoils
Public Policy, Overhead Democracy and the Professional State Revisited
A Government of Strangers, Executive Politics in Washington
Speaking Truth to Power
Ministerial Advisers, Politicization and the Retreat From Westminster
A Government of Strangers
Portrait of a Profession Revisited
A Return to Spoils? Revisiting Radical Civil Service Reform in the United States
Dramatic Reform in the Public Service
Conceptualising Advisers' Policy Work
The Study of Administration
The Theoretical Core of the New Institutionalism
| Unique citing works | 90 |
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| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 90 |