Non-Partisan Advisors in the Minister’s Office—Ghosts in the Core Executive Machine

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ID6310075
AutoresRose Cole (0000-0002-0290-6784, Victoria University of Wellington School of Business and Government , Wellington, New Zealand, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen76
Número2
Páginas251-269
Fecha de publicación2023-03-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaParliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pa/gsab050
OpenAlexW3204951737
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas26

The ‘core executive’ is conceived of as the collection of organisations and procedures that coordinate executive government. Two approaches to core executive studies are: the resource dependency approach, which focusses on how roles interact and resources are utilised; and the functional approach, which focusses on how roles change over time. Both approaches are applied to non-partisan advisors (private secretaries) in ministerial office settings, actors which to date core executive studies have ignored. It reveals the resources that non-partisan advisors apply to contribute to policy coordination and maintain political neutrality; and that their role has changed since the increased presence of partisan advisors in ministers’ offices in the past 20 years. Six distinct roles describe how non-partisan advisors respond to and meet the needs of both minister and public service in the core executive. When compared with political advisory roles, five of the roles appear strongly aligned in function

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