Politics and Administration in U.S. Local Governments

Jerome, Delmer D. Dunn; Legge, Stefan

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“…The concept of insulin bureaucracy, which desires to protect bureaucracy from the intervention of political actors, is extremely difficult to implement (Jerome & Legge, 2002;Mueller, 2015). This research shows that political officials still play dominant roles in local government, especially in recruiting bureaucratic officials.…”

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“…From a partnership perspective, Jerome and Legge (2002) argued that to prevent conflicts between bureaucratic and political officials, an attitude of equality and partnership must be developed. The partnership perspective is not a simple and easy concept since both parties display different characters and are at risk of causing conflicts.…”

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Understanding Sowan as a New Paternalistic Bureaucracy Pattern of Local Officials in Indonesia

2022

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This study aimed to examine the visit of bureaucratic officials to local head candidates who have been confirmed to win local elections, commonly known as sowan. The officials ignore the neutrality aspect of bureaucracy that should be strictly upheld. This phenomenon is explained by the concept of a new paternalistic bureaucracy. This study used a qualitative research method with a phenomenological approach. In-depth interviews, focus group discussions (FGD), and documentation was utilized as data collection methods for this study. This study's interview and FGD participants include local officials with knowledge of the sowan phenomenon and general civil servants in Banyumas, Purbalingga, Banjarnegara, Cilacap, and Kebumen. This study discovered that sowan in the perspective of bureaucracy signifies friendship, loyalty, approach, and negotiation. This research highlights the strength of paternalistic bureaucracy, which generally begins in the final phase of the democratic process of local elections. Conceptually, this study is useful to explain the sowan phenomenon concerning bureaucratic neutrality and democracy and provide practical insights on the importance of law enforcement to violators of bureaucratic neutrality. This study explains the new paternalistic bureaucracy in the era of democracy in local governments in Indonesia. This study recommends the importance of law enforcement for violators of bureaucratic neutrality without discrimination, the improvement of the relationship between political and bureaucratic officials that reflect better partnerships in the recruitment of career officials, and the importance of bureaucrats who are committed to maintaining the principle of merit in the selection of local officials.

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Understanding Sowan as a New Paternalistic Bureaucracy Pattern of Local Officials in Indonesia

2022

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“…Blending and blurring of structural forms provide the basis for a partnership model of interaction between councils and managers (Nalbandian and Portillo 2006). In this model, policy leadership is shared (Dunn and Legge 2002) as councils and managers work together to bridge the gap between politics and administration (Nalbandian et al 2013, p. 567). As Svara (2006, p. 1081) explains, “There is interdependency and reciprocal influence between elected officials and administrators who fill distinct but overlapping roles in policy and administration.”…”

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Towards a Measure of Local Legislative Professionalism

Cooper

Rimes

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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Municipal policy leadership is shared between managers, city councilors, and mayors, all of whom vary in institutional power and resources across municipalities. Corresponding with their importance, scholars have established consistent measures of professionalism for Mayors and City Managers. Unfortunately, there is no parallel measure of professionalism for city councils. After reviewing the role of councils in local policy leadership and establishing the need for a systematic measure of local legislative professionalism, this paper uses data from over 4,000 municipalities to develop a measure of legislative professionalism for city councils. We demonstrate that considerable variation exists in levels of professionalism among local legislatures and describe the implications of this variation for questions of municipal policy leadership and local legislative representation.

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“…The public service is inherently a political creation, and also inherently involved in politics, simply because it is the structure that delivers services publiques to the citizens-it plays a role in determining who gets what from the public sector. (Peters & Pierre, 2004, p. 2, emphasis in original) Starting with the assumption that public servants are indeed important and dynamic actors in the policy process (Demir, 2009;Demir, Reddick, & Nank, 2015;Jerome & Legge, 2002;Svara, 1999a), this study sheds light on the factors that condition their participation in policy formulation. Here, policy formulation refers to the process by which an agency identifies, considers, and makes decisions regarding the best policy option for addressing a given mandate or social issue.…”

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The Determinants of Public Administrators’ Participation in Policy Formulation

Roman

2016

The American Review of Public Administration

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There are few who would question that within their everyday discretionary choices and decision making, public servants can develop into consequential and dynamic actors in the policy process. Participation in policy formulation is a particularly meaningful stage within which administrators can make a noticeable impact in shaping public policy. Whether they do so or not often comes down to an individual choice. Yet, while there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence regarding public servants’ involvement in policy formulation, there is relatively less empirical research in the area. In particular, there is little known about the conditions under which some public administrators are more likely than others to seek to become involved in policy formulation. This study explores the effects that stakeholders’ expectations, self-expectations, administrative discretion, and tenure have on administrators’ predispositions to seek opportunities to participate in the formulation of public policy issues they find important.

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Politics and Administration in U.S. Local Governments

Cited by 34 publications

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Understanding Sowan as a New Paternalistic Bureaucracy Pattern of Local Officials in Indonesia

Understanding Sowan as a New Paternalistic Bureaucracy Pattern of Local Officials in Indonesia

Towards a Measure of Local Legislative Professionalism

The Determinants of Public Administrators’ Participation in Policy Formulation

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