Personal or Party Roots of Civil Service Patronage? Ministerial Change Effects on the Appointments of Top Civil Servants

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Authors

STARONOVA Katarina RYBÁŘ Marek

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Administration & Society
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Web https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095399720956996
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399720956996
Keywords patronage; political appointments; top executives; political parties; ministerial alterations
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Description Patronage is typically studied following government terminations when political parties appoint their nominees into the state administration. However, patronage is understudied in cases when a change of minister takes place without government termination. Taking individual government ministers as the units of analysis, we identify four modalities of ministerial alterations: replacing, successive, incumbent, and switching ministers. We show that politicization occurs under “replacing ministers” following government termination, but the bureaucratic turnover is equally high under “successive ministers.” That suggests that patronage can be seen as an individualized power resource of autonomous ministers who exercise influence independently of their political parties.
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