Personal or Party Roots of Civil Service Patronage? Ministerial Change Effects on the Appointments of Top Civil Servants
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Administration & Society |
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| 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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