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Chapter 23: Policy-making in the executive triangle: a comparative perspective on ministers, advisers, and civil servants

  • This chapter seeks to bridge existing research on the politicisation of top civil servants and the roles of ministerial advisers by proposing a new conceptual approach for the comparative analysis of executive policy-making. We conceive of the executive triangle as a set of interdependent relationships between ministers, civil servants, and advisers. Those relationships may take different forms, depending on the distinct tasks performed by each actor and their roles in policy-making, which define mutual expectations. Thus understood, the executive triangle is an institution performing particular functions in policy-making (such as assessing policy alternatives, anticipating political support, and coordinating with other actors both inside and outside government). Those functions are performed by actors within the triangle and reflected in their roles and their direct and indirect relationships. The chapter conceptually explores such a system-perspective on the executive triangle; sketches analytical dimensions for understanding similarities and differences of executive triangles across contexts; provides empirical illustrations of variations of the executive triangle in Europe; and develops a research agenda using this concept to better understand the roles of ministers, ministerial advisers, and top civil servants in executive policy-making in a comparative perspective.

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Metadaten
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Tobias Bach, Thurid HustedtORCiD
Editor(s):Richard Shaw
Parent Title (English):Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers
Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing
Place of Publisher:Cheltenham, UK
Publication year:2023
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:338
Last Page:351
DOI:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886582.00034
Release Date:2023/07/10
Tag:Civil servants; Comparative public administration; Executive triangle; Ministerial advisers; Policy advice; Politicisation
AY 22/23:AY 22/23
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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