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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Jann, Werner |
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Generalists and specialists in executive politics: Why ambitious meta‐policies so often fail |
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Public Administration |
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97(4), 2019: p.845-860. |
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This article contributes to the politics of policy‐making in executive government. It introduces the analytical distinction between generalists and specialists as antagonistic players in executive politics and develops the claim that policy specialists are in a structurally advantaged position to succeed in executive politics and to fend off attempts by generalists to influence policy choices through cross‐cutting reform measures. Contrary to traditional textbook public administration, we explain the views of generalists and specialists not through their training but their positions within an organization. We combine established approaches from public policy and organization theory to substantiate this claim and to define the dilemma that generalists face when developing government‐wide reform policies (‘meta‐policies’) as well as strategies to address this problem. The article suggests that the conceptual distinction between generalists and specialists allows for a more precise analysis of the challenges for policy‐making across government organizations than established approaches. - Reproduced. |
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Generalists |
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Specialists |
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Wegrich, Kai |
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Public Administration |
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Public administration |
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Articles |
