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100			_aBevan, Shaun
245			_aBureaucratic responsiveness: effects of elected governments, public agendas and European attention on the UK bureaucracy
260			_c2015
300			_ap.139-158.
520			_aWhat determines the bureaucratic agenda? This article combines insights from models of bureaucratic behaviour with agenda-setting models of government attention to test the effects of elected government, public, and EU agendas on the bureaucratic agenda. Using time series cross-sectional analyses of subject and ministry coded data on UK statutory instruments from 1987 to 2008, I find strong effects for both the elected government and EU legislative agendas on UK statutory instruments. Furthermore, by breaking the data into different sets based on their relationship with the EU, several logical differences in these effects are found. These results include the EU agenda having exclusive influence on instruments implementing EU directives, and the UK agenda being the sole driver of bureaucratic attention on those instruments that mention the EU but do not implement EU legislation. This article opens a new avenue for research on bureaucracy by approaching it as a unique policy-making institution. - Reproduced.
650			_aBureaucracy - Great Britain
650			_aBureaucracy
773			_aPublic Administration
909			_a108526
999			_c108521 _d108521