The practice and politics of secretary general appointments (Record no. 525286)
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| Personal name | Dorp, Erik-Jan Van |
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| Title | The practice and politics of secretary general appointments |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | American Review of Public Administration |
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| Extent | 53(5-6), Jul-Aug, 2023: p.182-194 |
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| Summary, etc | The question of who is appointed to key administrative posts at the expense of whom lies at the heart of public administration research. In this paper, I study what career experiences have increased senior civil servants’ chances of being appointed to a secretary general position. The civil service politicization and core executive literatures suggest such appointments are impacted by loyalty, ability, and proximity to power. These hypotheses are investigated using a mixed methods research design combining quantitative analysis of the career paths of all active senior civil servants in the years 2000–2020 (n = 247) with 22 elite interviews with cabinet ministers and bureaucrats in the Netherlands. The main findings of this paper are that active affiliation with minister-delivering political parties and having worked in the prime minister's office significantly increased the odds of a candidate's appointment to an SG position, whereas managerial experience did not. These findings challenge the conventional theory of nonpoliticized appointments and unlock possibilities for comparative research on bureaucrats’ biographies. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02750740231155408 |
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| Main entry heading | American Review of Public Administration |
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| Subject DIP | PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2024-02-21 | 53(5-6), Jul-Aug, 2023: p.182-194 | AR131093 | 2024-02-21 | Articles |