Kutsal Yesilkagit
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kutsal Yesilkagit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kutsal |
| FAMILY NAME | Yesilkagit |
| SIGNATURE | YESILKAGIT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9660-7859 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 410 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Is crisis on the rise? An empirical study of the evolution of crisis in the European Union between 1980 and 2023
Among policymakers, political leaders, and the research community, there is a sense that the EU is experiencing an era of unprecedented crises. Despite a wealth of in-depth case studies, we lack a comprehensive overview of EU crises. This gap undermines our understanding of the scale and characteristics of the phenomenon, limits our ability to make informed decisions about case selection, and hampers comparative research beyond a handful of cases…
Beyond Democratic Backsliding: Bureaucracy, Elite Dynamics and Administrative Change in Authoritarian Transitions
This paper examines how political and administrative elites shape regime transformations under authoritarian rule, proposing an elite‐centered analytical perspective that complements prevailing accounts of “democratic backsliding.” We show how embedding political–administrative relations within a broader elite‐theoretical framework clarifies the mechanisms through which elite reconfiguration underwrites institutional erosion. Drawing on classical…
A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: Elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding
Liberal democracy has become vulnerable to illiberal political movements and the gradual erosion of democratic institutions. To safeguard liberal democracy, we propose the concept of the Guardian State, which embraces liberal principles while acting as a defensive barrier against illiberal tendencies. We need strong administrative institutions that uphold liberal democratic norms and resist pressures from populist politicians. Institutionalizing …
Multilevel governance and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic literature review
As the Covid-19 pandemic demanded coordinated action from governments at all levels, the role of federalism, decentralization, supranational authorities and other multilevel governance (MLG) institutions and processes in responses to it has come under much scholarly scrutiny. Three years on, much of this literature remains fragmented and in need of synthesis. In this systematic literature review we summarize the literature on the effects of MLG o…
Political time in public bureaucracies: Explaining variation of structural duration in European governments
Structural duration conveys stability but also resilience in central government and is therefore a key issue in the debate on the structure and organization of government. This paper discusses three core variants of structural duration to study the explanatory relevance of politics. We compare these durations across ministerial units in four European democracies (Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Norway) from 1980 to 2013, totaling over 17,00…
The politics of government reorganization in Western Europe
The reorganization of governments is crucial for parties to express their policy preferences once they reach office. Yet these activities are not confined to the direct aftermath of general elections or to wide‐ranging structural reforms. Instead, governments reorganize and adjust their machinery of government all the time. This paper aims to assess these structural choices with a particular focus at the core of the state, comparing four Western …
An accountability deficit? Holding transgovernmental networks to account
International cooperation in networks between national civil servants is often judged necessary to address global policy challenges. The civil servants cooperating with each other in these transgovernmental networks (TGNs), are often employed by national agencies that are not part of a ministry. It is therefore assumed in the literature that participating in a TGN renders account giving to a political forum difficult. We offer in this paper a sta…
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis
Several recent studies have pointed to the increasing relevance of relatively informal, non-treaty-based global governance bodies (GGBs). Yet, a systematic fine-grained assessment of these bodies and their implications for global governance are still pending. To what extent, do non-treaty-based GGBs constitute a truly novel type of governance body, distinct from traditional treaty-based international organizations (IOs)? How do the distinctive fe…
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy
In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a government will cause changes in the names of ministerial units. To this end we formulate hypotheses combining the politics of structural choice and theories of portfolio allocation to examine the effects of political changes at the cabinet level on the names of intra‐…
Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: What accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe
European states responded to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 with a variety of public policy measures. In this article we ask what can account for this variation in policy responses, and we identify a number of factors related to institutions, general governance and specific health-sector related capacities, societal trust, government type, and party preferences as possible determinants. Using multivariate regression and surviva…
Entangled agencies and embedded preferences: National Regulatory Agencies in multi-level European governance
The emergence of trans-governmental policy regimes in Europe has fundamentally changed the role of National Regulatory Agencies (NRAs). Here we move away from the idea that there is a meaningful divide between the domestic and the European levels of governance and suggest that a different logic has emerged in recent decades, combining multiple chains of delegation and innovative coordination schemes. NRAs have come to occupy a ‘broker’ or interme…
Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration: How Populists in Government Transform State Bureaucracies
Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions – political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law—are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe. While liberal-democratic backsliding features prominently in social science scholarship, especially the branches concerned with political parties and political behavior, public administration research lags behind. However, without considering illiber…
Ministerial influence on the machinery of government: Insights on the Inside
The structure and organisation of the machinery of government are key to the ambitions of political coalitions. When portfolio allocation and agencification are a function of political choice, political volatility should also affect the internal structure of government administrations. This study tests the effects of political turnover of individual ministers and of the political ideology of coalitions on a dataset of intra-ministerial changes in…
Termination, aggregation, or replacement? A competing risks approach to agency transitions
Agencies operate in highly volatile and uncertain environments. Changing political coalitions and sudden crises may result in the reorganization of agencies. Under these circumstances, agencies may experience a variety of structural transitions. The uncertainties and the inevitability of compromises, however, deem it difficult to predict which of all possible forms of structural change agencies will experience. In this article, we develop and tes…
Market regulation between economic and ecological values: Regulatory authorities and dilemmas of responsiveness
The regulation of markets emerged as one of the core pillars of government policies during the 1990s. However, the ascendance of ecological values and issues, such as sustainability and security in the following decades challenge some of the basic tenets of the underlying neo-liberal ideas. We argue in this paper that market and competition regulators have come under pressures to uphold the market and economic values of the prevailing anti-trust …
Government Capacity, Societal Trust or Party Preferences? What Accounts for the Variety of National Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe?
European states responded to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 with a variety of public policy measures. Governments across the continent acted more or less swiftly to close down schools, restrict arrival into their countries and travel within their territories, ban public meetings, impose local and national lockdowns, declare states of emergency and pass other emergency measures. Importantly, both the mix of policy tools as well …
International public administrations: A Critique
Recent decades have seen an expansion and proliferation of administrative bodies at the international level. An emerging literature on ‘international public administrations’ attempts to conceptualize and theorize these bodies, by applying a public administration perspective to international organizations. This essay critically examines how this literature addresses key issues relating to international administrative bodies: bureaucratic autonomy,…
Does task matter? The effect of task on the establishment, autonomy and control of semi-autonomous agencies
The task of agencies is often considered to be an important determinant of agency design, autonomy, governance and control. The evidence for these expectations has, however, been limited so far. Moreover, there are several problems with the ‘task-variable’. There is no clear definition, agencies often perform multiple tasks, and as task is a nominal variable there are restrictions on the use of statistical techniques. Two questions arise: does ta…
The Differential Empowering Effects of E uropeanization on the Autonomy of National Agencies
This article examines the influence of E uropeanization on the relationship between ministries and agencies at the national level. The core argument is that the differentiated nature of the international environment (with policy development often transferred to the international level and policy implementation left at the national level) transforms national agencies into policy‐developing actors that shape policies without being directly influenc…
The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government By Christopher Hood Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010, 242 pp., $39.95, ISBN 9780691129952 (hbk) The blame game
Autonomous Agencies and Perceptions of Stakeholder Influence in Parliamentary Democracies
n Contains fulltext :\n 111732.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Differential Legacy Effects: Three Propositions on the Impact of Administrative Traditions on Public Administration Reform in Europe East and West
This article compares the status of historical legacies in explanations of administrative reform in Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. It addresses the puzzle that legacy effects in both regions are associated with institutional resilience and persistence even though the administrative history in these two regions differs considerably. The article clarifies the terminological differences between legacies, legacy explanations, legacy e…
Institutional compliance, European networks of regulation and the bureaucratic autonomy of national regulatory authorities
One important function of European regulatory networks (ERNs) is to provide national regulatory authorities (NRAs) with an institutional platform for coordinating the implementation and harmonization of Community law within the member states by issuing non-binding norms such as guidelines and standards. However, to what extent are NRAs successful in implementing these non-binding rules within their member states and what is the role of European n…
The Limits of Administration: A Response to Christopher Hood
The development of states coincides with the continuous (re)definition of administrative limits, according to Kutsal Yesilkagit, in this response to Christopher Hood. Hood’s thought-provoking essay suggests putting the concept of administrative limits to greater use as an analytical concept and explores the idea of administrative limits from three basic ways of thinking: cybernetics, economics and cultural theory. This author critically analyzes …
Government capacity, societal trust or party preferences: What accounts for the variety of national policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe
European states responded to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 with a variety of public policy measures. In this article we ask what can account for this variation in policy responses, and we identify a number of factors related to institutions, general governance and specific health-sector related capacities, societal trust, government type, and party preferences as possible determinants. Using multivariate regression and surviva…
Institutional Design and Formal Autonomy: Political versus Historical and Cultural Explanations
This article tests two competing hypotheses in the study of the institutional design of regulatory agencies. Political explanations consider the degree of institutional design of regulatory agencies as a function of political factors, such as the degree of policy conflict and political uncertainty. By contrast, historical-cultural explanations of institutional design claim that the design of regulatory agencies is a function of path dependency an…
The Guardian State: Strengthening the public service against democratic backsliding
Liberal democracy has become vulnerable to illiberal political movements and the gradual erosion of democratic institutions. To safeguard liberal democracy, we propose the concept of the Guardian State, which embraces liberal principles while acting as a defensive barrier against illiberal tendencies. We need strong administrative institutions that uphold liberal democratic norms and resist pressures from populist politicians. Institutionalizing …
Institutional compliance, European networks of regulation and the bureaucratic autonomy of national regulatory authorities
One important function of European regulatory networks (ERNs) is to provide national regulatory authorities (NRAs) with an institutional platform for coordinating the implementation and harmonization of Community law within the member states by issuing non-binding norms such as guidelines and standards. However, to what extent are NRAs successful in implementing these non-binding rules within their member states and what is the role of European n…
The Differential Empowering Effects of E uropeanization on the Autonomy of National Agencies
This article examines the influence of E uropeanization on the relationship between ministries and agencies at the national level. The core argument is that the differentiated nature of the international environment (with policy development often transferred to the international level and policy implementation left at the national level) transforms national agencies into policy‐developing actors that shape policies without being directly influenc…
Differential Legacy Effects: Three Propositions on the Impact of Administrative Traditions on Public Administration Reform in Europe East and West
This article compares the status of historical legacies in explanations of administrative reform in Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. It addresses the puzzle that legacy effects in both regions are associated with institutional resilience and persistence even though the administrative history in these two regions differs considerably. The article clarifies the terminological differences between legacies, legacy explanations, legacy e…
International public administrations: A Critique
Recent decades have seen an expansion and proliferation of administrative bodies at the international level. An emerging literature on ‘international public administrations’ attempts to conceptualize and theorize these bodies, by applying a public administration perspective to international organizations. This essay critically examines how this literature addresses key issues relating to international administrative bodies: bureaucratic autonomy,…
Termination, aggregation, or replacement? A competing risks approach to agency transitions
Agencies operate in highly volatile and uncertain environments. Changing political coalitions and sudden crises may result in the reorganization of agencies. Under these circumstances, agencies may experience a variety of structural transitions. The uncertainties and the inevitability of compromises, however, deem it difficult to predict which of all possible forms of structural change agencies will experience. In this article, we develop and tes…
Bureaucratic Autonomy, Organizational Culture, and Habituation: Politicians and Independent Administrative Bodies in the Netherlands
What really does change when a bureaucratic agency is created? What will the nature of a new agency’s interactions be with political and administrative actors in its environment? Despite the large interest in administrative reform during the past few decades, there has been only little attention given to institutionalization processes that follow the creation of independent public agencies. This article formulates a model of political-bureaucrati…
Does task matter? The effect of task on the establishment, autonomy and control of semi-autonomous agencies
The task of agencies is often considered to be an important determinant of agency design, autonomy, governance and control. The evidence for these expectations has, however, been limited so far. Moreover, there are several problems with the ‘task-variable’. There is no clear definition, agencies often perform multiple tasks, and as task is a nominal variable there are restrictions on the use of statistical techniques. Two questions arise: does ta…
Autonomous Agencies and Perceptions of Stakeholder Influence in Parliamentary Democracies
n Contains fulltext :\n 111732.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
The politics of government reorganization in Western Europe
The reorganization of governments is crucial for parties to express their policy preferences once they reach office. Yet these activities are not confined to the direct aftermath of general elections or to wide‐ranging structural reforms. Instead, governments reorganize and adjust their machinery of government all the time. This paper aims to assess these structural choices with a particular focus at the core of the state, comparing four Western …
Ministerial influence on the machinery of government: Insights on the Inside
The structure and organisation of the machinery of government are key to the ambitions of political coalitions. When portfolio allocation and agencification are a function of political choice, political volatility should also affect the internal structure of government administrations. This study tests the effects of political turnover of individual ministers and of the political ideology of coalitions on a dataset of intra-ministerial changes in…
What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy
In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a government will cause changes in the names of ministerial units. To this end we formulate hypotheses combining the politics of structural choice and theories of portfolio allocation to examine the effects of political changes at the cabinet level on the names of intra‐…
Legal Europeanization: Comparative Perspectives
By mid-2003, the legal orders (the entire bodies of legislation in force) of three EU member states – Austria , Denmark, and The Netherlands – contained between 10.5 and 14.2 per cent of rules devoted to the transposition of EU directives. Only a few ministerial jurisdictions contain more than 20 per cent of Europeanized rules. The member states show remarkable differences in the use of parliamentary versus delegated legislation as a means of tra…
Core executives and party policies: Privatisation in the Netherlands
The role of core executives in co‐ordination processes is an important research topic in political science and public administration. This article analyses the co‐ordinating role of core executives and party politics in the area of privatisation in the Netherlands between 1980 and 1994. In this period, Ruud Lubbers was the prime minister of three successive cabinets. The first two rested on a centre‐right coalition, the last one was centre‐left. …
Entangled agencies and embedded preferences: National Regulatory Agencies in multi-level European governance
The emergence of trans-governmental policy regimes in Europe has fundamentally changed the role of National Regulatory Agencies (NRAs). Here we move away from the idea that there is a meaningful divide between the domestic and the European levels of governance and suggest that a different logic has emerged in recent decades, combining multiple chains of delegation and innovative coordination schemes. NRAs have come to occupy a ‘broker’ or interme…
Reform Styles of Political and Administrative Elites in Majoritarian and Consensus Democracies: Public Management Reforms in New Zealand and the Netherlands
One of the most important claims advanced by comparative public management reform studies is that these reforms have been more successfully implemented in majoritarian than in consensus democracies. The claim is built on the premise that the institutional structure of a majoritarian democracy enables a parliamentary majority to implement policies unilaterally and in a desired way whereas the institutional structure of a consensus democracy forces…
The Eu as Lawmaker: The Impact of Eu Directives on National Regulation in the Netherlands
The impact of European directives on Dutch regulation is fairly limited when compared to the claims that are made by academics and politicians. We found that 12.6 per cent of all parliamentary acts, 19.7 per cent of all orders in council, and 10.1 per cent of all valid ministerial decisions were actually rules transposing EU directives. The total overall impact for all three types of legislation was 12.6 per cent. Departments generally employ the…
Supranational Governance or National Business‐as‐usual? The National Administration of Eu Structural Funds in the Netherlands and Denmark
The partnership principle in EU cohesion policy was introduced in order to involve subnational authorities and interest organizations in policy formulation and implementation. In this article we examine how the member states have reacted to this call for a new way of making public policy. We argue that the multi‐level governance literature and the critics of the multi‐level governance framework have not examined implementation structures properly…
An accountability deficit? Holding transgovernmental networks to account
International cooperation in networks between national civil servants is often judged necessary to address global policy challenges. The civil servants cooperating with each other in these transgovernmental networks (TGNs), are often employed by national agencies that are not part of a ministry. It is therefore assumed in the literature that participating in a TGN renders account giving to a political forum difficult. We offer in this paper a sta…
The Unanticipated Consequences of Decentralization and Reinvention: The Case of the Province of South Holland
Two developments flowing from the institutional reforms in The Netherlands of the 1980s currently form ‘the usual suspects’ in a series of scandals or instances of public arousal within the public sector. The first factor is the large-scale decentralization of tasks from central government to provincial and municipal authorities. Initiated under the name of democratization and efficiency this decentralization programme was part of a large package…
Multilevel governance and responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic literature review
As the Covid-19 pandemic demanded coordinated action from governments at all levels, the role of federalism, decentralization, supranational authorities and other multilevel governance (MLG) institutions and processes in responses to it has come under much scholarly scrutiny. Three years on, much of this literature remains fragmented and in need of synthesis. In this systematic literature review we summarize the literature on the effects of MLG o…
Mapping and Unpacking Global Governance Bodies: A Cross Sectional and Cross Organizational Analysis
Several recent studies have pointed to the increasing relevance of relatively informal, non-treaty-based global governance bodies (GGBs). Yet, a systematic fine-grained assessment of these bodies and their implications for global governance are still pending. To what extent, do non-treaty-based GGBs constitute a truly novel type of governance body, distinct from traditional treaty-based international organizations (IOs)? How do the distinctive fe…
Market regulation between economic and ecological values: Regulatory authorities and dilemmas of responsiveness
The regulation of markets emerged as one of the core pillars of government policies during the 1990s. However, the ascendance of ecological values and issues, such as sustainability and security in the following decades challenge some of the basic tenets of the underlying neo-liberal ideas. We argue in this paper that market and competition regulators have come under pressures to uphold the market and economic values of the prevailing anti-trust …
Core executives and party policies: Privatisation in the Netherlands
The role of core executives in co‐ordination processes is an important research topic in political science and public administration. This article analyses the co‐ordinating role of core executives and party politics in the area of privatisation in the Netherlands between 1980 and 1994. In this period, Ruud Lubbers was the prime minister of three successive cabinets. The first two rested on a centre‐right coalition, the last one was centre‐left. …
The Unanticipated Consequences of Decentralization and Reinvention: The Case of the Province of South Holland
Two developments flowing from the institutional reforms in The Netherlands of the 1980s currently form ‘the usual suspects’ in a series of scandals or instances of public arousal within the public sector. The first factor is the large-scale decentralization of tasks from central government to provincial and municipal authorities. Initiated under the name of democratization and efficiency this decentralization programme was part of a large package…
Bureaucratic Autonomy, Organizational Culture, and Habituation: Politicians and Independent Administrative Bodies in the Netherlands
What really does change when a bureaucratic agency is created? What will the nature of a new agency’s interactions be with political and administrative actors in its environment? Despite the large interest in administrative reform during the past few decades, there has been only little attention given to institutionalization processes that follow the creation of independent public agencies. This article formulates a model of political-bureaucrati…
Reform Styles of Political and Administrative Elites in Majoritarian and Consensus Democracies: Public Management Reforms in New Zealand and the Netherlands
One of the most important claims advanced by comparative public management reform studies is that these reforms have been more successfully implemented in majoritarian than in consensus democracies. The claim is built on the premise that the institutional structure of a majoritarian democracy enables a parliamentary majority to implement policies unilaterally and in a desired way whereas the institutional structure of a consensus democracy forces…
Supranational Governance or National Business‐as‐usual? The National Administration of Eu Structural Funds in the Netherlands and Denmark
The partnership principle in EU cohesion policy was introduced in order to involve subnational authorities and interest organizations in policy formulation and implementation. In this article we examine how the member states have reacted to this call for a new way of making public policy. We argue that the multi‐level governance literature and the critics of the multi‐level governance framework have not examined implementation structures properly…
Political Influence and Bureaucratic Autonomy
The establishment of autonomous public bodies during the past two decades has created a highly fragmented public sector. Using a dataset with more than 200 Dutch public sector organisations, this article examines three related sets of questions: to what extent a relationship exists between formal and de facto autonomy; the level of influence that interested parties exert upon those organizations; whether a relationship exists between levels of fo…
The Coordination of the European Union. Exploring the Capacities of Networked Governance ‐ by Andrew Jordan and Adriaan Schout
Policy Transfer in European Union Governance. Regulating the Utilities ‐ by Simon Bulmer, David Dolowitz, Peter Humphreys and Stephen Padgett
Reform in Europe: Breaking the Barriers in Government ‐ Edited by Liesbert Heyse, Sandra Resodihardjo, Tineke Lantink and Berber Lettinga
Internationalisation and Economic Institutions. Comparing European Experiences
Internationalisation and Economic Institutions. Comparing European Experiences." West European Politics, 31(3), pp. 636–637
The Power of the Centre: Central Governments and the Macro‐implementation of Eu Public Policy ‐ by Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos
The Eu as Lawmaker: The Impact of Eu Directives on National Regulation in the Netherlands
The impact of European directives on Dutch regulation is fairly limited when compared to the claims that are made by academics and politicians. We found that 12.6 per cent of all parliamentary acts, 19.7 per cent of all orders in council, and 10.1 per cent of all valid ministerial decisions were actually rules transposing EU directives. The total overall impact for all three types of legislation was 12.6 per cent. Departments generally employ the…
The Limits of Administration: A Response to Christopher Hood
The development of states coincides with the continuous (re)definition of administrative limits, according to Kutsal Yesilkagit, in this response to Christopher Hood. Hood’s thought-provoking essay suggests putting the concept of administrative limits to greater use as an analytical concept and explores the idea of administrative limits from three basic ways of thinking: cybernetics, economics and cultural theory. This author critically analyzes …
Legal Europeanization: Comparative Perspectives
By mid-2003, the legal orders (the entire bodies of legislation in force) of three EU member states – Austria , Denmark, and The Netherlands – contained between 10.5 and 14.2 per cent of rules devoted to the transposition of EU directives. Only a few ministerial jurisdictions contain more than 20 per cent of Europeanized rules. The member states show remarkable differences in the use of parliamentary versus delegated legislation as a means of tra…
Institutional Design and Formal Autonomy: Political versus Historical and Cultural Explanations
This article tests two competing hypotheses in the study of the institutional design of regulatory agencies. Political explanations consider the degree of institutional design of regulatory agencies as a function of political factors, such as the degree of policy conflict and political uncertainty. By contrast, historical-cultural explanations of institutional design claim that the design of regulatory agencies is a function of path dependency an…
Differential Legacy Effects: Three Propositions on the Impact of Administrative Traditions on Public Administration Reform in Europe East and West
This article compares the status of historical legacies in explanations of administrative reform in Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe. It addresses the puzzle that legacy effects in both regions are associated with institutional resilience and persistence even though the administrative history in these two regions differs considerably. The article clarifies the terminological differences between legacies, legacy explanations, legacy e…
Institutional compliance, European networks of regulation and the bureaucratic autonomy of national regulatory authorities
One important function of European regulatory networks (ERNs) is to provide national regulatory authorities (NRAs) with an institutional platform for coordinating the implementation and harmonization of Community law within the member states by issuing non-binding norms such as guidelines and standards. However, to what extent are NRAs successful in implementing these non-binding rules within their member states and what is the role of European n…
The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government
The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government By Christopher Hood Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010, 242 pp., $39.95, ISBN 9780691129952 (hbk) The blame game
Autonomous Agencies and Perceptions of Stakeholder Influence in Parliamentary Democracies
n Contains fulltext :\n 111732.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Does task matter? The effect of task on the establishment, autonomy and control of semi-autonomous agencies
The task of agencies is often considered to be an important determinant of agency design, autonomy, governance and control. The evidence for these expectations has, however, been limited so far. Moreover, there are several problems with the ‘task-variable’. There is no clear definition, agencies often perform multiple tasks, and as task is a nominal variable there are restrictions on the use of statistical techniques. Two questions arise: does ta…
The Differential Empowering Effects of E uropeanization on the Autonomy of National Agencies
This article examines the influence of E uropeanization on the relationship between ministries and agencies at the national level. The core argument is that the differentiated nature of the international environment (with policy development often transferred to the international level and policy implementation left at the national level) transforms national agencies into policy‐developing actors that shape policies without being directly influenc…
International public administrations: A Critique
Recent decades have seen an expansion and proliferation of administrative bodies at the international level. An emerging literature on ‘international public administrations’ attempts to conceptualize and theorize these bodies, by applying a public administration perspective to international organizations. This essay critically examines how this literature addresses key issues relating to international administrative bodies: bureaucratic autonomy,…
Government Capacity, Societal Trust or Party Preferences? What Accounts for the Variety of National Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe?
European states responded to the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 with a variety of public policy measures. Governments across the continent acted more or less swiftly to close down schools, restrict arrival into their countries and travel within their territories, ban public meetings, impose local and national lockdowns, declare states of emergency and pass other emergency measures. Importantly, both the mix of policy tools as well …
Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration: How Populists in Government Transform State Bureaucracies
Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions – political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law—are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe. While liberal-democratic backsliding features prominently in social science scholarship, especially the branches concerned with political parties and political behavior, public administration research lags behind. However, without considering illiber…
Ministerial influence on the machinery of government: Insights on the Inside
The structure and organisation of the machinery of government are key to the ambitions of political coalitions. When portfolio allocation and agencification are a function of political choice, political volatility should also affect the internal structure of government administrations. This study tests the effects of political turnover of individual ministers and of the political ideology of coalitions on a dataset of intra-ministerial changes in…
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