Policy Coordination and Politicisation within the Core Executive

Abstract

Central governments experience varying degrees of politicization, which may vary from political appointments to the special cabinets within the top layers of the bureaucracy and agencies to political interventions by ministers or the party leaders to individual policy processes. The papers in this panel address how politicization of the bureaucracy affects the working of the bureaucracy and, more specifically, policy coordination between ministries and agencies at the central government level as well as between different layers of central and decentral government is affected by processes of politicization.

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Politicisation One Way or Another: The Organisation of Policy Advice and Civil Servants in Denmark and Sweden	View Paper Details
Unpacking Portfolio Allocation: Policy Priorities, Coalition Bargaining and Government Organisation in Germany	View Paper Details
Executive Policy Coordination in Substate Ministers' Conferences	View Paper Details