Inter-Ministry Politics: Ministers, Ministries, and the Politics of Policy-Making I

Abstract

This is the first of two related panels on Inter-Ministry Politics. We know surprisingly little about the role of individual ministries in the policy process. Yet, inter-ministry politics matter because the involvement of different ministries has different (re)distributive consequences and implications for representation, responsiveness and knowledge use in policy-making. In this first panel we discus papers that contribute to our understanding of 1) the role of individual ministries in the policy process, 2) substantial preferences of different ministries and (potential) explanations, and 3) the conditions under which ministries can ‘win’ the inter-ministerial political game and influence policy output.

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The policy shaping influence of internal coordination mechanisms in the European Commission – An analysis of issue-specific strategies	View Paper Details
Comparing ministerial cultures of evidence use: a quantitative analysis	View Paper Details
Neutral technocrats or ideological policy-seekers? Studying the substantive policy preferences of ministerial civil-servants across countries, ministries, and time	View Paper Details
Clashing Imperatives: Coordination, Conflicts, and the Orientations of Drug Pricing Policy	View Paper Details
A text-as-data approach to measuring the policy influence of policy bureaucracies	View Paper Details