Ministerial Departments as Political Organizations and Arenas

Abstract

In recent years, researchers turned their attention (back) towards ministerial departments as core actors in government. We take this as an opportunity to bring together scholars interested in ministerial portfolio reorganization and its effects as well as in studying executive politics unfolding inside and via ministerial departments, which includes e.g., intra- and inter-ministerial coordination but also ministries’ relations with other government actors (such as agencies) or external actors (supranational administrations, organized interests, parliament, etc.). We invite papers with a theory-driven approach and empirical evidence studied with qualitative and/or quantitative methods, and we aim for a variety of country (and temporal) contexts.

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