Sylvia Veit
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4378734 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sylvia Veit |
| NOMBRES | Sylvia |
| APELLIDO | Veit |
| FIRMA | VEIT S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kassel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3855-5995 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Verheißung und Realität
In politischen Debatten gilt Digitalisierung als Wundermittel gegen Bürokratie – doch die Hoffnung auf ‚automatische‘ Entlastung greift zu kurz, da mit der Digitalisierung auch zusätzliche Bürokratielasten verbunden sind. Damit Digitalisierung tatsächlich zu einer effektiven und nachhaltigen Entbürokratisierung beiträgt, braucht es grundlegende institutionelle Reformen, begleitet von gezielten Angeboten zum digitalen Kompetenzaufbau, insbesondere…
Between patronage and professionalism
Measuring civil service politicization with career data
Based on an understanding of politicization as an increase in the relevance of political criteria in the selection and deselection of civil servants, this article proposes an innovative approach to measure civil service politicization with individual‐level career data. For this purpose, two core types of political experience in civil servants' careers are distinguished: frontstage political experience as elected politician and backstage political…
Preservation of Differences or Adaptation to Western Germany? Descriptive Representation, Career Patterns and Politicisation of Top Civil Servants in Eastern Germany
This paper investigates to what extent East Germans are represented in the German administrative elite. Based on an original dataset of 512 appointments of top civil servants (TCS) in the Eastern German Länder and Berlin between January 2000 and December 2019, it is investigated (1) whether the descriptive representation of East Germans increases over time and (2) how commonalities and differences between TCS with East or West German origin devel…
Role Models in the Senior Civil Service
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 reac…
Incomplete Democratization, System Transformation, and the Civil Service
Based on a case study on Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, this chapter addresses the administrative dimension of liberal-democratic backsliding by examining the role the state bureaucracy played in the process of system transformation from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi regime. It shows how the state bureaucracy in Germany was approached and transformed by illiberal politicians in the late Weimar Republic and under Hitler. Des…
Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform
Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform
The partisan–professional dichotomy revisited
Politicization has an ambivalent reputation among public administration scholars. While considered an effective instrument to safeguard political control over ministerial bureaucracy, partisanship of senior civil servants is likewise associated with patronage and is deemed detrimental to professionalism and meritocracy. To scrutinize this contradiction, the article examines how the party‐political background of senior civil servants influences th…
Policy advisory systems
The Determinants of Promotion to High Public Office in Germany
The politicization of bureaucracy is a widespread strategy to increase the political control of ministerial departments in parliamentary democracies. It is, however, largely unknown why executive politicians promote some officials rather than others to high public office. Based on a unique dataset of all senior officials in German federal ministries and agencies that held office in the period 1997–2015, this article investigates whether partisan …
Dynamics of change in internal policy advisory systems
Linking administrative career patterns and politicization
This article explores the influence of two types of signalling on the career success of civil servants in the federal ministerial bureaucracy of Germany. Whereas ‘ability signalling’ displays bureaucratic expertise in the sense of both political craft and administrative management competencies, ‘intention signalling’ indicates party politicization. Data are drawn from the biographies of 341 civil servants within the two highest ranks in federal m…
Only Good Fences Keep Good Neighbours! The Institutionalization of Ministry–agency Relationships at the Science–policy Nexus in German Food Safety Policy
This article makes a further contribution to opening the ‘black box’ of micropractices in ministry–agency relationships. We argue that the mechanisms that come into play in the course of institutionalizing agencification reforms – such as renegotiating mutual roles and rules in ministry–agency interactions – are only poorly covered in the existing literature. To adequately address the negotiated and contingent nature of de facto agency autonomy a…
Bessere Gesetze durch Folgenabschätzung
Policy advisory systems
The Determinants of Promotion to High Public Office in Germany
The politicization of bureaucracy is a widespread strategy to increase the political control of ministerial departments in parliamentary democracies. It is, however, largely unknown why executive politicians promote some officials rather than others to high public office. Based on a unique dataset of all senior officials in German federal ministries and agencies that held office in the period 1997–2015, this article investigates whether partisan …
Dynamics of change in internal policy advisory systems
The partisan–professional dichotomy revisited
Politicization has an ambivalent reputation among public administration scholars. While considered an effective instrument to safeguard political control over ministerial bureaucracy, partisanship of senior civil servants is likewise associated with patronage and is deemed detrimental to professionalism and meritocracy. To scrutinize this contradiction, the article examines how the party‐political background of senior civil servants influences th…
Linking administrative career patterns and politicization
This article explores the influence of two types of signalling on the career success of civil servants in the federal ministerial bureaucracy of Germany. Whereas ‘ability signalling’ displays bureaucratic expertise in the sense of both political craft and administrative management competencies, ‘intention signalling’ indicates party politicization. Data are drawn from the biographies of 341 civil servants within the two highest ranks in federal m…
Only Good Fences Keep Good Neighbours! The Institutionalization of Ministry–agency Relationships at the Science–policy Nexus in German Food Safety Policy
This article makes a further contribution to opening the ‘black box’ of micropractices in ministry–agency relationships. We argue that the mechanisms that come into play in the course of institutionalizing agencification reforms – such as renegotiating mutual roles and rules in ministry–agency interactions – are only poorly covered in the existing literature. To adequately address the negotiated and contingent nature of de facto agency autonomy a…
Measuring civil service politicization with career data
Based on an understanding of politicization as an increase in the relevance of political criteria in the selection and deselection of civil servants, this article proposes an innovative approach to measure civil service politicization with individual‐level career data. For this purpose, two core types of political experience in civil servants' careers are distinguished: frontstage political experience as elected politician and backstage political…
Bessere Gesetze durch Folgenabschätzung
Only Good Fences Keep Good Neighbours! The Institutionalization of Ministry–agency Relationships at the Science–policy Nexus in German Food Safety Policy
This article makes a further contribution to opening the ‘black box’ of micropractices in ministry–agency relationships. We argue that the mechanisms that come into play in the course of institutionalizing agencification reforms – such as renegotiating mutual roles and rules in ministry–agency interactions – are only poorly covered in the existing literature. To adequately address the negotiated and contingent nature of de facto agency autonomy a…
Dynamics of change in internal policy advisory systems
Linking administrative career patterns and politicization
This article explores the influence of two types of signalling on the career success of civil servants in the federal ministerial bureaucracy of Germany. Whereas ‘ability signalling’ displays bureaucratic expertise in the sense of both political craft and administrative management competencies, ‘intention signalling’ indicates party politicization. Data are drawn from the biographies of 341 civil servants within the two highest ranks in federal m…
Policy advisory systems
The Determinants of Promotion to High Public Office in Germany
The politicization of bureaucracy is a widespread strategy to increase the political control of ministerial departments in parliamentary democracies. It is, however, largely unknown why executive politicians promote some officials rather than others to high public office. Based on a unique dataset of all senior officials in German federal ministries and agencies that held office in the period 1997–2015, this article investigates whether partisan …
Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform
Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform
The partisan–professional dichotomy revisited
Politicization has an ambivalent reputation among public administration scholars. While considered an effective instrument to safeguard political control over ministerial bureaucracy, partisanship of senior civil servants is likewise associated with patronage and is deemed detrimental to professionalism and meritocracy. To scrutinize this contradiction, the article examines how the party‐political background of senior civil servants influences th…
Incomplete Democratization, System Transformation, and the Civil Service
Based on a case study on Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, this chapter addresses the administrative dimension of liberal-democratic backsliding by examining the role the state bureaucracy played in the process of system transformation from the Weimar Republic to the Nazi regime. It shows how the state bureaucracy in Germany was approached and transformed by illiberal politicians in the late Weimar Republic and under Hitler. Des…
Role Models in the Senior Civil Service
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 reac…
Measuring civil service politicization with career data
Based on an understanding of politicization as an increase in the relevance of political criteria in the selection and deselection of civil servants, this article proposes an innovative approach to measure civil service politicization with individual‐level career data. For this purpose, two core types of political experience in civil servants' careers are distinguished: frontstage political experience as elected politician and backstage political…
Preservation of Differences or Adaptation to Western Germany? Descriptive Representation, Career Patterns and Politicisation of Top Civil Servants in Eastern Germany
This paper investigates to what extent East Germans are represented in the German administrative elite. Based on an original dataset of 512 appointments of top civil servants (TCS) in the Eastern German Länder and Berlin between January 2000 and December 2019, it is investigated (1) whether the descriptive representation of East Germans increases over time and (2) how commonalities and differences between TCS with East or West German origin devel…
Verheißung und Realität
In politischen Debatten gilt Digitalisierung als Wundermittel gegen Bürokratie – doch die Hoffnung auf ‚automatische‘ Entlastung greift zu kurz, da mit der Digitalisierung auch zusätzliche Bürokratielasten verbunden sind. Damit Digitalisierung tatsächlich zu einer effektiven und nachhaltigen Entbürokratisierung beiträgt, braucht es grundlegende institutionelle Reformen, begleitet von gezielten Angeboten zum digitalen Kompetenzaufbau, insbesondere…
Between patronage and professionalism
Political science (13 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Public Administration (8 obras) · Public Policy and Administration Research (8 obras) · Public Administration (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · German (6 obras) · Bureaucracy (5 obras)