Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?

Staroňová, Katarína; Rybář, Marek

doi:10.1111/gove.12760

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“…Politicisation receives significant scholarly attention in the public administration literature across administrative traditions (Peters & Pierre, 2004;Staron ˇová & Rybár ˇ, 2023). The PAS literature considers the drift towards different forms of politicisation in advisory systems, with particular attention to Westminster administrations (Craft & Howlett, 2013) and how this has arisen through the greater involvement of media, the partisan alignment of think tanks, and policy work in political parties.…”

Section: Politicisationmentioning

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‘Best advice available’ – Challenge and change in developing an optimal policy advisory system in Ireland

Connaughton,

Devane

2023

Administration

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The concept of a policy advisory system (PAS) is devised to study the diverse range of actors involved in the policy formulation process from a system level. An optimal PAS should be adaptable, autonomous and transparent, and should deliver substantive and timely advice. This article discusses factors influencing developments in Ireland’s PAS, including the broader trends of politicisation and externalisation. The findings are informed by interviews and a survey circulated to Irish civil servants who perform policy worker tasks and are engaged in providing advice to ministers. The research finds that new structural and institutional arrangements introduced to Ireland’s PAS have created a greater capacity for evidence-based advice in the internal PAS and a more contested space for policy advice. It also highlights that this has not fundamentally disturbed embedded characteristics of the Irish policymaking environment. Political demand pressures from ministers (both personal and electoral) can drive elements of politicisation within the civil service whereby policy advice is weighted or discarded based on ministerial preferences.

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Section: Politicisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Best advice available’ – Challenge and change in developing an optimal policy advisory system in Ireland

Connaughton,

Devane

2023

Administration

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“…The most important redundant structures are the ministerial cabinets where ministerial advisers are appointed. They perform political tasks in addition to providing expertise on policy choices (Shaw and Eichbaum, 2020;Staroňová and Rybár, 2023).…”

Section: Forms Of Politicizationmentioning

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"Politicization of Public Administration in Romania and its Consequences for Governance in Turbulent Times"

RADU,

RADU

2023

TRAS

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The article aims to analyze the level of politicization of civil service in Romania, its goals, and consequences. We adopted a rather narrow perspective on politicization and we concentrated mainly on analyzing the recruitment, promotion, and dismissal of civil servants based on political criteria. The research findings were used to discuss the consequences of politicization on the governance of public institutions during turbulent times. In this regard, we conducted an email-based survey of the civil servants. The majority of the sample was composed of graduates of public administration programs at four major universities in Romania, who work in public institutions. We collected the data between May and November 2023 and we obtained 211 valid questionnaires. We found that appointments based on political criteria lower the work motivation of public employees, and increase the level of incompetence and instability of public institutions. The most affected are public employees in management positions, those who have longer work experience in the public sector, and those who work in public institutions that are part of central administration. Therefore, frequent changes based on political criteria lower the capacity of public institutions to respond to disruptive events by generating a loss of expertise, instability, and discontinuity in policy implementation. However, turbulent times require flexibility and adaptation to unexpected and unpredictable events, and political appointees might be more responsive and cooperative.

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Policy Advisory Systems in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of Slovak Advisory Committees during Covid-19

Hudec

2023

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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This paper aims to fill a gap in the understanding of policy advisory systems (PAS) during the Covid‐19 crisis. As governments rely on PAS in uncertain times of crisis, the state of PAS directly impacts the quality of policymaking. This paper studies the changes within Slovak Advisory committees (AC) at the executive level concerning the changes of government during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Slovakia had relatively good results in the first wave of the pandemic but did not utilize any ofthat experience in the second wave, where deadly infection and death rates were higher. The case of Slovak ACs demonstrates a shift towards a more politicized PAS – the new committees, established by the prime minister, were meeting at the expense of already functioning committees at the beginning of the crisis, and their expertise was more political in character.

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Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows?

Cited by 4 publications

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‘Best advice available’ – Challenge and change in developing an optimal policy advisory system in Ireland

‘Best advice available’ – Challenge and change in developing an optimal policy advisory system in Ireland

"Politicization of Public Administration in Romania and its Consequences for Governance in Turbulent Times"

Policy Advisory Systems in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of Slovak Advisory Committees during Covid-19

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