Ebinger, Falk, Veit, Sylvia, Strobel, Bastian. 2021. Role Models in the Senior Civil Service: How Tasks Frame the Identification of Senior Bureaucrats with Active and Reactive Roles. International Journal of Public Administration. 1-12.
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Abstract
The influence of senior civil servants’ (SCS) tasks on their role perceptions has been widely ignored in the past research on the administrative élite. This paper presents new survey data on SCS in German federal ministries to test this relation by categorizing SCS into three task-related groups: strategists, policy specialists and administrators. Regression analyses reveal that SCS’s tasks do not influence their (strong) identification with reactive (supportive) roles but have a significant impact on their identification with active, more politically entrepreneurial roles. This entails two important findings: First, SCS’s tasks matter for their appreciation of different roles. Second, active and reactive role models are not irreconcilable (as it is often argued in the literature on bureaucratic politicization), but complementary.
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Press 'enter' for creating the tag- Administrative Elites
- Role Perception
- Politicization
- Tasks
Publication's profile
Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | International Journal of Public Administration |
WU-Journal-Rating new | STRAT-C |
Language | English |
Title | Role Models in the Senior Civil Service: How Tasks Frame the Identification of Senior Bureaucrats with Active and Reactive Roles |
Year | 2021 |
Page from | 1 |
Page to | 12 |
Reviewed? | Y |
URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01900692.2021.1945623 |
DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2021.1945623 |
Open Access | Y |
Open Access Link | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01900692.2021.1945623?needAccess=true |
Associations
- Projects
- Political-Administrative Elite 2017
- People
- Ebinger, Falk (Former researcher)
- External
- Strobel, Bastian (Universität Kassel, Germany)
- Veit, Sylvia (Universität Kassel, Germany)
- Organization
- Institute for Public Management and Governance IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5118 Political science (Details)
- 5234 Administrative science (Details)
- 5324 Organizational research (Details)
- 5351 Public economy (Details)
- 5951 E-government (Details)
- 5963 Evaluation research (Details)