The Politics of Bureaucratic Reputation

Abstract

Bureaucratic reputation literature has demonstrated that to manage their organizational reputation bureaucracies adjust decision-making practices, produce diverse outputs, and communicate about their competences and activities in different ways. However, we still have a limited understanding of how and under what conditions bureaucracies provide differentiated responses and engage in distinct behavior patterns to manage the anticipated impact of reputational threats on their multidimensional reputation. This panel focuses on theoretical and empirical contributions on the politics of bureaucratic reputation. It includes papers proposing novel and rigorous empirical techniques to capture how and to what extent reputational considerations affect bureaucracies’ outputs, processes, and behavior.

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Trapped on the Roller Coaster: Understanding Reputational Dynamics with the Narrative Policy Framework	View Paper Details
Organizational Reputation and Regulatory Communication: An Analysis of EU Agencies’ Communications Using Machine-Learning Techniques	View Paper Details
The Public Legitimacy of European Union Agencies	View Paper Details