Why do civil servants experience media-stress differently and what can be done about it

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ID6326344
AutoresThomas Schillemans (0000-0003-2378-4998, Utrecht University, autor de correspondencia), Rune Karlsen (0000-0002-4509-1896, Oslo University, Norway), Kristoffer Kolltveit (0000-0001-8051-4818, Oslo University, Norway)
Año2019
Volumen47
Número4
Páginas599-620
Fecha de publicación2019-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolicy & Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442
EditorialBristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/030557319x15613701092525
OpenAlexW2973855268
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas60

Pressure from the media affects the daily work of bureaucrats and induces ‘media stress’, with potentially critical effects on the quality of public policy. This article analyses how bureaucrats’ daily work has been adapted to the media (‘mediatised’) and which groups of bureaucrats experience the most media-stress. Reporting the results of an original and large-scale survey (N=4,655) this article demonstrates that levels of media-stress vary among different groups of civil servants. In turn, its analysis suggests that media-stress is more pronounced in the Netherlands than in Norway, is more concentrated in the lower rungs of administrative hierarchies and is related to media pressures on organisations. By untangling the underlying logic of mediatisation and the dynamics of media-stress, this article makes an important contribution to extant scholarship and also provides a series of practical recommendations

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