Le règne des entourages

Bioy, Xavier; Eymeri-Douzans, Jean-Michel; Mouton, Stéphane

doi:10.3917/scpo.eymer.2015.01

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“…Consisting of people with lifelong political careers, this class is detached from the people they are elected to represent (Allen and Cairney, 2017: 19;Borchert, 2003). Politicians increasingly surround themselves with advisors, be it at party headquarters (Webb and Kolodny, 2006), in parliament (Karlsen, 2010;Karlsen and Saglie, 2017) or in government ministries (Diamond, 2011;Eymeri-Douzans et al, 2015;Shaw and Eichbaum, 2018;Yong and Hazell, 2014). The growth in the number of advisors suggests that these are positions for an expanding political class or stepping-stones for aspiring top politicians.…”

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“…Such advisors and ministerial advisors (MAs) in particular, used to 'live in the dark' (Blick, 2004), but after 10-15 years of considerable scholarly attention, we now know that MAs are a growing group of powerful actors at the core of executive government. They advise ministers, liaise across ministries and with parliament and oversee the bureaucracy's policy implementation (Askim et al, 2017;Craft, 2015;Eichbaum and Shaw, 2010;Eymeri-Douzans et al, 2015;Hustedt et al, 2017). However, it remains unclear the extent to which MAs remain in politics or migrate to other arenas and whether service in high public office pays off career-wise.…”

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Public Office as a Stepping-Stone? Investigating the Careers of Ministerial Advisors

Askim

Karlsen

Kolltveit

2020

Political Studies Review

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Ministerial advisors have become an essential aspect of executive branches worldwide, thus making the ministerial advisor office a potential route for young politicians aspiring to an expanding political class. The article studies which professions ministerial advisors migrate to following their ministerial careers, how ministerial advisors’ post-ministerial careers compare to their pre-ministerial careers, and if the variance in careers can be explained by the resources that ministerial advisors obtain while in government. Empirically, the article draws on a cohort of 139 ministerial advisors in Norwegian governments between 2001 and 2009; it covers positions in the political sphere and the public, private and voluntary occupational sectors over a period from each ministerial advisor’s youth to the end of 2017. The bibliographic data are combined with surveys and elite interviews. The results show that more than expanding the political class as a recruitment ground for future Members of the Parliament and ministers, ministerial advisor appointments serve as stepping-stones to careers outside of politics. Most ministerial advisors experience shifts between occupational sectors and upwards to higher positions. However, ministerial advisors’ attractiveness in the labour market is surprisingly unaffected by what they actually did in office; rather, it rests on resources such as insider knowledge and networks.

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