A Meert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4383875 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Meert |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Meert |
| ASSINATURA | MEERT A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KU Leuven Public Governance Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7685-9055 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 3 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
When Reforms Becomes Symbolic
Decabinetisation—policies that reduce or restrict ministerial cabinets—presents a paradox in contemporary executive politics. Despite growing reliance on these structures for political coordination and policy steering, governments occasionally move to limit their reliance on these political staff structures, either by reducing staff numbers or by imposing stricter rules on appointments, recruitment, and remuneration. While several such reforms ha…
Stepping stones or party placements? Post-ministerial cabinet careers of Belgian ministerial advisers (1999–2020)
What do ministerial advisers do once they leave office? This article examines the post-ministerial cabinet careers of Belgian federal advisers, analyzing whether these trajectories reflect individual stepping stones or party-driven placements. Using a new dataset of 6107 career positions held by 767 advisers (1999–2020), we test two perspectives. The first posits that cabinet service accelerates career advancement by providing political and admin…
Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy
This paper develops and empirically tests the novel concept of ‘decabinetisation’, a type of depoliticisation reform that affects the advisory and support offices of executive politicians. Reforms that restrict and constrain the work of ministerial advisers and reduce the political resources of ministers are puzzling, even more so when pressure to reform ministerial offices is absent. To understand why governments undermine a system that has been…
Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy
This paper develops and empirically tests the novel concept of ‘decabinetisation’, a type of depoliticisation reform that affects the advisory and support offices of executive politicians. Reforms that restrict and constrain the work of ministerial advisers and reduce the political resources of ministers are puzzling, even more so when pressure to reform ministerial offices is absent. To understand why governments undermine a system that has been…
Decabinetisation as a presidentialisation strategy
This paper develops and empirically tests the novel concept of ‘decabinetisation’, a type of depoliticisation reform that affects the advisory and support offices of executive politicians. Reforms that restrict and constrain the work of ministerial advisers and reduce the political resources of ministers are puzzling, even more so when pressure to reform ministerial offices is absent. To understand why governments undermine a system that has been…
When Reforms Becomes Symbolic
Decabinetisation—policies that reduce or restrict ministerial cabinets—presents a paradox in contemporary executive politics. Despite growing reliance on these structures for political coordination and policy steering, governments occasionally move to limit their reliance on these political staff structures, either by reducing staff numbers or by imposing stricter rules on appointments, recruitment, and remuneration. While several such reforms ha…
Stepping stones or party placements? Post-ministerial cabinet careers of Belgian ministerial advisers (1999–2020)
What do ministerial advisers do once they leave office? This article examines the post-ministerial cabinet careers of Belgian federal advisers, analyzing whether these trajectories reflect individual stepping stones or party-driven placements. Using a new dataset of 6107 career positions held by 767 advisers (1999–2020), we test two perspectives. The first posits that cabinet service accelerates career advancement by providing political and admin…
Politics (3 obras) · European Union Policy and Governance (2 obras) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (2 obras) · Business (1 obras) · Computer Science (1 obras) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (1 obras) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (1 obras) · Elite (1 obras) · Executive summary (1 obras) · Foley (1 obras)