Comparing the Politicization of the Executive Triangle 2

Abstract

Public organizations and officials at various levels of government are key players in the policy process. At the same time, bureaucracy itself is profoundly affected by political decision-making. Among the key themes in the literature on politico-administrative relations are tensions between political control and bureaucratic autonomy and different explanations of the drivers of bureaucratic and political behaviour, both at the individual and the organizational level. The goal of this section is to promote this research agenda by explicitly adopting a political science perspective on public administration to study how political processes affect public bureaucracies, and vice versa. The section’s proposed panels address this general theme from different angles. The section invites paper proposals for all these panels.

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