The Politics‐Administration Dichotomy: A Case Study of the Chilean Executive during the Democratic Post‐Transition

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

2022

This article analyses the effect of ministers’ exposure to periods of low presidential approval in Brazil and Chile between 1990 and 2014. Approval is explored with quarterly estimates using a dyad-ratios algorithm and merged into a time-dependent cabinet data set to evaluate individual ministerial terminations ( N = 4245). The empirical strategy combines time-varying exposure Cox regressions with observational data and propensity score and matching to estimate the effect of low approval on ministerial survival and perform a moderation analysis with three profiles associated with presidential strategies: (1) nonpartisan ministers to limit agency loss and moral hazard; (2) economists as ministers to optimise cabinet performance and send positive signals to the electorate; and (3) party leaders as ministers to optimise legislative support. The main findings show that risk increases by 135.1% in periods of low approval. In addition, approximately only one in five nonpartisan ministers is removed compared to party members.

Section: Time-dependent Data Encodingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ministerial stability during presidential approval crises: The moderating effect of ministers’ attributes on dismissals in Brazil and Chile

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

2022

“…La DNSC es un servicio público que cumple dos roles centrales. Por una parte, maneja el Sistema de Alta Dirección Pública (SADP), el cual selecciona a partir de mecanismos técnicos a los altos directivos públicos (González-Bustamante, 2020;González-Bustamante et al, 2020). Por otro lado, la DNSC se encarga del desarrollo de personas.…”

Section: Antecedentes Del Casounclassified

Motivación de servicio público entre funcionarios públicos chilenos

Cuevas¹,

Calderón-Orellana³

et al. 2022

Preprint

En los últimos treinta años, el campo de la administración pública en América Latina ha girado en torno a cómo introducir reformas en el sector público inspiradas por la Nueva Gestión Pública. En efecto, la mayoría de las administraciones públicas se han enfocado casi exclusivamente en introducir este tipo de reformas, ignorando una serie de alternativas que han emergido en el debate académico. Una de esas alternativas es el enfoque de la motivación de servicio público, el cual analiza cómo ciertos factores intrínsecos, directamente asociados con la noción de servicio público, motivan el comportamiento de los empleados públicos. Este artículo tiene como objetivo fomentar un debate latinoamericano sobre cómo diseñar e implementar políticas de recursos humanos basadas en la teoría de la motivación de servicio público. A partir de una muestra no probabilística con 172 respuestas, el artículo identifica un número de factores de motivación de servicio público entre funcionarios públicos chilenos. Los hallazgos muestran que la atracción por las políticas públicas, el compromiso con el interés general y la compasión son factores tan poderosos como el amor por el dinero. Al mismo tiempo, los resultados muestran que el autosacrificio no motiva a los funcionarios públicos chilenos. A partir de estos hallazgos, se presenta una discusión sobre cómo la motivación de servicio público puede ser un enfoque útil para rediseñar políticas de recursos humanos.

“…The sources of information were data released by the DNSC in response to requests AE004T0000240 and AE004T0000484 under Law on Access to Public Information. These requests were made on December 26, 2016, andApril 26, 2018, respectively. With the first request, we developed a database of senior public managers for the period 2009-2015 (N = 391; see González-Bustamante, 2020). With this database and the second request, we compiled 452 top-level managers for 2009-2017.…”

Section: Creation Of the Datasetmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Naturally, there is significant cross-national heterogeneity in these consolidation processes, however, some patterns can be noted. For example, at the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a scarcity of senior public managers, which crystallised in a differentiation between the ordinary civil service career and senior public management (Longo, 2003;González-Bustamante, 2020;Martínez Puón, 2012). This differentiation, which in some countries is more pronounced and implies considering the corps of senior managers separately from ordinary civil servants, has been a crucial element in Latin American civil services reforms over the past decades (González-Bustamante, 2018;Ramos and Scrollini, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We obtained seven cases (1.62%) with estimated ages below 25 years due to their high identity numbers. These were coded as missing observations.3 SADP coverage has expanded more than 140% in the past decade, and several public agencies use it voluntarily(González-Bustamante, 2020). With regards to appointments, on the other hand, up until the reform of 2016, it was possible to make temporary appointments that operated in a loop, constituting a loophole for evading the use of the system and making discretional appointments in services that had to use mandatorily the system.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Senior Public Managers: A Novel Dataset on Members of the Chilean Civil Service

Olmos²,

Orvenes³

2021

Preprint

Where do appointments based on political trust end and meritocratic recruitments begin? This question dates to the end of the nineteenth century and is linked to civil service systems’ modernisation processes in the twentieth century. The Chilean civil service has been an example of modernisation in Latin America over the past decades, however, the existing evidence is descriptive and mainly evaluates its coverage. There is no clear, systematic empirical evidence on its stability. This paper presents a novel data set of senior public managers in Chile during the 2009-2017 period. The focus of this methodological article is the creation of the data set and its potential applications. First, we present how we created and validated this data set based on data mining and machine learning processes. Then, we present some descriptive applications and nonparametric survival estimates with Kaplan-Meier curves. We hope that this data set will be a relevant resource for deepening understanding of the Chilean civil service and making different comparisons to extend this research line on political and government personnel.