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Kristoffer Kolltveit - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ministerial advisers in Executive Government: Out from the dark and into the limelight
Public Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Thurid Hustedt, Kristoffer Kolltveit, Heidi Houlberg SalomonsenAbstract:Ministers increasingly rely on advisers for support and advice. In many countries, these political aides are labelled differently. Generally, they serve as close confidants to their political masters and operate in the ‘shadowland’ between politics and bureaucracy. Scholarship has dragged the ministerial advisers out of the dark and described their background and functions. Still, the field of scholarship has a Westminster bias, is characterized by single case studies, and remains under-theorized. The lack of comparative focus and theoretical underpinnings can be explained by the complex nature of ministerial advisers. This introductory article suggests a definition for ministerial advisers and reviews the extant literature on these important actors. The main argument is that the extent and relevance of ministerial advisers in Executive Government merits integration into mainstream public administration and political science theory and research
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political appointees in Executive Government exploring and explaining roles using a large n survey in norway
Public Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Jostein Askim, Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer KolltveitAbstract:Political appointees in Executive Government have received increased scholarly attention in recent years. However, few studies have covered non-Westminster systems, and apart from classifications that systemize variation in assignments, theorizing about appointees has been limited. Using large-N survey data, the article finds three distinct roles among political appointees in Norway: ‘stand in’, ‘media adviser’ and ‘political coordinator’. The article then combines insights from research on political appointees with insights from core Executive studies (CES) to explain why political appointees perform one role or another. The empirical results support the notion that roles of appointees within the core Executive depend on where they sit, supporting the asymmetric power model within CES. The results also show that appointees’ roles within the Executive depend on their personal experience, supporting the notion of a resource exchange between ministers and their appointees in the mould of the resource-dependency perspective within CES.
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Political appointees in Executive Government: Exploring and explaining roles using a large‐N survey in Norway
Public Administration, 2016Co-Authors: Jostein Askim, Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer KolltveitAbstract:Political appointees in Executive Government have received increased scholarly attention in recent years. However, few studies have covered non-Westminster systems, and apart from classifications that systemize variation in assignments, theorizing about appointees has been limited. Using large-N survey data, the article finds three distinct roles among political appointees in Norway: ‘stand in’, ‘media adviser’ and ‘political coordinator’. The article then combines insights from research on political appointees with insights from core Executive studies (CES) to explain why political appointees perform one role or another. The empirical results support the notion that roles of appointees within the core Executive depend on where they sit, supporting the asymmetric power model within CES. The results also show that appointees’ roles within the Executive depend on their personal experience, supporting the notion of a resource exchange between ministers and their appointees in the mould of the resource-dependency perspective within CES.
Richard Shaw - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Still friends? Revisiting New Zealand public servants’ perceptions of ministerial advisers
Political Science, 2019Co-Authors: Richard Shaw, Chris EichbaumAbstract:Ten years ago, political advisers – or ministerial advisers as they are known in Aotearoa New Zealand – were a relatively recent arrival on the stage of Executive Government. They attracted some at...
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following the yellow brick road theorizing the third element in Executive Government
International Journal of Public Administration, 2015Co-Authors: Richard Shaw, Chris EichbaumAbstract:Political advisers—as a relatively new actor in Executive Government—are attracting increasing scholarly attention. The dominant orientation to date has been empirical, and there is a strong case for a more explicitly theoretical turn in the study of political advisers. The purpose of this article is to sketch a series of settings in which theorizing might fruitfully be pursued. The article seeks to locate the existing empirical work in the contexts set by four dominant narratives in political science and public policy.
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political staff in Executive Government conceptualising and mapping roles within the core Executive
Australian Journal of Political Science, 2011Co-Authors: Chris Eichbaum, Richard ShawAbstract:Political advisers are attracting increasing attention in Westminster jurisdictions. Typically, scholars focus on the corrosive impact they allegedly have on elements of Westminster convention and practice. We argue that a concern with accountability detracts from other important matters, including understanding and theorising ministerial advisers' roles. In this article we address these issues using primary data from a survey of ministerial advisers in New Zealand. We draw on Maley's typology to classify advisers' activities according to the contribution they make to Executive Government policy-making. We then theorise these activities through the lens of the core Executive. We conclude that ministerial advisers are increasingly important actors in governing environments characterised by complex resource dependencies, modes of operation that are as often relational as they are hierarchical, and bargaining relationships that are often positive and not zero-sum in nature.
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Ministerial Advisers and the Politics of Policy-Making: Bureaucratic Permanence and Popular Control
Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2007Co-Authors: Chris Eichbaum, Richard ShawAbstract:The advent of ministerial advisers of the partisan variety – a third element interposing itself into Westminster's bilateral monopoly – has been acknowledged as a significant development in a number of jurisdictions. While there are commonalities across contexts, the New Zealand experience provides an opportunity to explore the extent to which the advent of ministerial advisers is consistent with rational choice accounts of relations between political and administrative actors in Executive Government. Public administration reform in New Zealand since the mid 1980s – and in particular machinery of Government design – was quite explicitly informed by rational choice accounts, and normative Public Choice in particular. This article reflects on the role of ministerial advisers in the policy-making process and, on the basis of assessments by a variety of political and policy actors, examines the extent to which the institutional and relational aspects of Executive Government are indeed consistent with rational choice accounts of the ‘politics of policy-making’. The reader is offered a new perspective through which to view the advent, and the contribution of ministerial advisers to policy-making in Executive Government.
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State Sector Reform and MMP: At the Interface. by Richard Shaw
Political Science, 1998Co-Authors: Richard ShawAbstract:tag=1 data=State Sector Reform and MMP: At the Interface. by Richard Shaw tag=2 data=Shaw, Richard tag=3 data=Political Science, tag=4 data=49 tag=5 data=2 tag=6 data=January 1998 tag=7 data=173-197. tag=8 data=Executive Government tag=9 data=NEW ZEALAND%MIXED MEMBER PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION (MMP)%Government MANAGEMENT%LABOUR Government%STATE SECTOR ACT 1988%ELECTORAL SYSTEM%DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION%CAVE CREEK%MANSFIELD%STATE SERVICES COMMISSIONER%FREE DEMOCRATS%STRATEGIC RESULT AREAS%KEY RESULT AREAS%COALITION AGREEMENT%TRANS POWER tag=10 data='The convergence of the institutional outcomes of the dual processes of state sector and electoral law reform represents a defining moment in the history of public administration in this country. This article explores several issues that have been trhown into shrp relief by the nexus of the two. Specifically, it seeks to explore two respects in which there exists an apparent lack of congruence between the patterns of Executive Government most likely to prevail under MMP and the current institutional contours of the core machinery of Government.' tag=13 data=V/F tag=32 data=MANSFIELD, BILL%SMITH, NICK%CULLEN, MICHAEL%KEITH, KENNETH%SCOTT,GRAHAM%DOUGLAS, ROGER%PETERS, WINSTON%CREECH, WYATT%HUNN, DON%BRADFORD, MAX%TAU HENARE%KIRTON, NEIL
Jostein Askim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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political appointees in Executive Government exploring and explaining roles using a large n survey in norway
Public Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Jostein Askim, Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer KolltveitAbstract:Political appointees in Executive Government have received increased scholarly attention in recent years. However, few studies have covered non-Westminster systems, and apart from classifications that systemize variation in assignments, theorizing about appointees has been limited. Using large-N survey data, the article finds three distinct roles among political appointees in Norway: ‘stand in’, ‘media adviser’ and ‘political coordinator’. The article then combines insights from research on political appointees with insights from core Executive studies (CES) to explain why political appointees perform one role or another. The empirical results support the notion that roles of appointees within the core Executive depend on where they sit, supporting the asymmetric power model within CES. The results also show that appointees’ roles within the Executive depend on their personal experience, supporting the notion of a resource exchange between ministers and their appointees in the mould of the resource-dependency perspective within CES.
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Political appointees in Executive Government: Exploring and explaining roles using a large‐N survey in Norway
Public Administration, 2016Co-Authors: Jostein Askim, Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer KolltveitAbstract:Political appointees in Executive Government have received increased scholarly attention in recent years. However, few studies have covered non-Westminster systems, and apart from classifications that systemize variation in assignments, theorizing about appointees has been limited. Using large-N survey data, the article finds three distinct roles among political appointees in Norway: ‘stand in’, ‘media adviser’ and ‘political coordinator’. The article then combines insights from research on political appointees with insights from core Executive studies (CES) to explain why political appointees perform one role or another. The empirical results support the notion that roles of appointees within the core Executive depend on where they sit, supporting the asymmetric power model within CES. The results also show that appointees’ roles within the Executive depend on their personal experience, supporting the notion of a resource exchange between ministers and their appointees in the mould of the resource-dependency perspective within CES.
Rune Karlsen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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political appointees in Executive Government exploring and explaining roles using a large n survey in norway
Public Administration, 2017Co-Authors: Jostein Askim, Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer KolltveitAbstract:Political appointees in Executive Government have received increased scholarly attention in recent years. However, few studies have covered non-Westminster systems, and apart from classifications that systemize variation in assignments, theorizing about appointees has been limited. Using large-N survey data, the article finds three distinct roles among political appointees in Norway: ‘stand in’, ‘media adviser’ and ‘political coordinator’. The article then combines insights from research on political appointees with insights from core Executive studies (CES) to explain why political appointees perform one role or another. The empirical results support the notion that roles of appointees within the core Executive depend on where they sit, supporting the asymmetric power model within CES. The results also show that appointees’ roles within the Executive depend on their personal experience, supporting the notion of a resource exchange between ministers and their appointees in the mould of the resource-dependency perspective within CES.
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Political appointees in Executive Government: Exploring and explaining roles using a large‐N survey in Norway
Public Administration, 2016Co-Authors: Jostein Askim, Rune Karlsen, Kristoffer KolltveitAbstract:Political appointees in Executive Government have received increased scholarly attention in recent years. However, few studies have covered non-Westminster systems, and apart from classifications that systemize variation in assignments, theorizing about appointees has been limited. Using large-N survey data, the article finds three distinct roles among political appointees in Norway: ‘stand in’, ‘media adviser’ and ‘political coordinator’. The article then combines insights from research on political appointees with insights from core Executive studies (CES) to explain why political appointees perform one role or another. The empirical results support the notion that roles of appointees within the core Executive depend on where they sit, supporting the asymmetric power model within CES. The results also show that appointees’ roles within the Executive depend on their personal experience, supporting the notion of a resource exchange between ministers and their appointees in the mould of the resource-dependency perspective within CES.
Chris Eichbaum - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Still friends? Revisiting New Zealand public servants’ perceptions of ministerial advisers
Political Science, 2019Co-Authors: Richard Shaw, Chris EichbaumAbstract:Ten years ago, political advisers – or ministerial advisers as they are known in Aotearoa New Zealand – were a relatively recent arrival on the stage of Executive Government. They attracted some at...
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following the yellow brick road theorizing the third element in Executive Government
International Journal of Public Administration, 2015Co-Authors: Richard Shaw, Chris EichbaumAbstract:Political advisers—as a relatively new actor in Executive Government—are attracting increasing scholarly attention. The dominant orientation to date has been empirical, and there is a strong case for a more explicitly theoretical turn in the study of political advisers. The purpose of this article is to sketch a series of settings in which theorizing might fruitfully be pursued. The article seeks to locate the existing empirical work in the contexts set by four dominant narratives in political science and public policy.
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political staff in Executive Government conceptualising and mapping roles within the core Executive
Australian Journal of Political Science, 2011Co-Authors: Chris Eichbaum, Richard ShawAbstract:Political advisers are attracting increasing attention in Westminster jurisdictions. Typically, scholars focus on the corrosive impact they allegedly have on elements of Westminster convention and practice. We argue that a concern with accountability detracts from other important matters, including understanding and theorising ministerial advisers' roles. In this article we address these issues using primary data from a survey of ministerial advisers in New Zealand. We draw on Maley's typology to classify advisers' activities according to the contribution they make to Executive Government policy-making. We then theorise these activities through the lens of the core Executive. We conclude that ministerial advisers are increasingly important actors in governing environments characterised by complex resource dependencies, modes of operation that are as often relational as they are hierarchical, and bargaining relationships that are often positive and not zero-sum in nature.
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Ministerial Advisers and the Politics of Policy-Making: Bureaucratic Permanence and Popular Control
Australian Journal of Public Administration, 2007Co-Authors: Chris Eichbaum, Richard ShawAbstract:The advent of ministerial advisers of the partisan variety – a third element interposing itself into Westminster's bilateral monopoly – has been acknowledged as a significant development in a number of jurisdictions. While there are commonalities across contexts, the New Zealand experience provides an opportunity to explore the extent to which the advent of ministerial advisers is consistent with rational choice accounts of relations between political and administrative actors in Executive Government. Public administration reform in New Zealand since the mid 1980s – and in particular machinery of Government design – was quite explicitly informed by rational choice accounts, and normative Public Choice in particular. This article reflects on the role of ministerial advisers in the policy-making process and, on the basis of assessments by a variety of political and policy actors, examines the extent to which the institutional and relational aspects of Executive Government are indeed consistent with rational choice accounts of the ‘politics of policy-making’. The reader is offered a new perspective through which to view the advent, and the contribution of ministerial advisers to policy-making in Executive Government.