The Relationship Between the Structure and Organisation of Bureaucracy and the Political Salience of Issues

Abstract

This panel focuses on the rise and fall of particular bureaucratic units in the light of the rise and decline of particular issues. Such questions relate to traditional topics, such as the literature on policy and agency termination. It also refers to the interest in the way in which institutional design is utilised to either enhance or reduce agencies’ propensities to be responsive to public and political preferences. One further central theme is the study of control over bureaucracy: does salience matter for the way in which bureaucracies are being controlled? The financial crisis, for example, offers the opportunity to reflect on many of the established doctrines in political science that relate to the way in which public attitudes towards central bank independence are said to have developed.

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