Politische Kultur und die Parteipolitisierung von Verwaltungseliten in den alten und neuen Bundesländern

On Track or Off The Rails?

“…Even well-meaning bureaucrats could find themselves in contrast to their political superiors, thus a second concern addresses the degree to that bureaucrats are guided by political considerations. The most direct form of securing responsiveness by the bureaucracy to the political leadership is 'the substitution of political criteria for merit-based criteria' in recruitment (quoted from: Peters and Pierre 2004, p. 2;similar: Kopecký et al 2012;Vedder and Veit 2017;Dahlstrøm and Holmgren 2019). This 'formal politicisation' (Hustedt and Salomonsen 2014, pp.…”

“…We know something about how and why ministers are chosen and ministries allocated among coalition parties (e. g. Carroll and G. W. Cox 2007;Bäck, Debus and Dumont 2011;Ecker and T. M. Meyer 2019). We also know a few things about those working within ministries (e. g. Vedder and Veit 2017;Bach and Veit 2018;Peters 2018, ch. 4) as well as about the interaction between bureaucrats and ministers (e. g. Peters and Pierre 2004;Schnapp 2004a;Hustedt and Salomonsen 2014).…”