Austerity at the Top? Motivation and Recruitment of Administrative Elites

Abstract

Administrative elites are key actors in ministerial bureaucracies by transmitting bureaucratic expertise to the political level and exercising the political control of a permanent bureaucracy. This panel aims to study their motivation, career patterns, and role in executive politics – especially with regard to potential repercussions on these aspects from the global financial and economic crisis. It welcomes papers with a theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical focus on motivation and career attainment in the public sector and a special emphasis on top officials, also from a comparative perspective.

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