Absorption of EU Funds in a Post-communist and Post-accession Context

Hagemann, Christian

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“…In fact, the political impact of ministerial instability has been researched only sporadically and with different results. First, the literature recognized the effect of instability on administrative reforms (Cohen, 2022; Mele & Ongaro, 2014), the level of clientelism and patronage (O'Dwyer, 2006), and the efficiency in the absorption of EU funds (Hagemann, 2019). But, more important to our argument, it has also revealed the impact on the daily life of the ministry, affecting policymaking and individual behaviour (Tosun, 2018; Wynen et al, 2019, 2020).…”

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The Effect of Ministerial Instability on Government's Mandate Fulfilment: Evidence from the Portuguese Case

Belchior

Silveira

2023

Swiss Political Sci Review

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Research on the fulfilment of electoral promises has been particularly fruitful over the past decades. Most of it focused on examining pledge fulfilment at the cabinet level, and little emphasis was placed on the reasons underlying the level of compliance. As a consequence, core factors in explaining pledge fulfilment have not yet been explored. One such factor might be instability in a government's internal functioning. We argue that ministerial instability is relevant for explaining a government's broken promises, and that its importance increases at the junior minister level and among the most salient ministries. Relying on data on the fulfilment of electoral promises and ministerial instability in Portugal between 1995 and 2019, backed by interviews with former ministers and junior ministers, we provide evidence that the fulfilment of electoral promises is significantly influenced by portfolio volatility, particularly at the junior ministerial level and in the most important ministries.

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