Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Slovakia and Czechia: Political
staff, patronage bureaucracy and ministerial advisers at work

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Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Slovakia and Czechia: Political staff, patronage bureaucracy and ministerial advisers at work

STAROŇOVÁ, Katarína a Marek RYBÁŘ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Slovakia and Czechia: Political staff, patronage bureaucracy and ministerial advisers at work

Název anglicky

Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Slovakia and Czechia: Political staff, patronage bureaucracy and ministerial advisers at work

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STAROŇOVÁ, Katarína a Marek RYBÁŘ

Vydání

ECPR General Conference 2023, 2023

Další údaje

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Změněno: 8. 10. 2023 17:29, doc. Marek Rybář, M.A., Ph.D.

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V originále

The paper seeks to explore the roles of ministerial advisers in a broader intra-executive settings of politicization, namely where political responsiveness is being achieved with high-ranking political staff and patronaged bureaucracy (when ministers fire and hire formally meritocratic bureaucratic personnel). The presence and mutual interactions of actors that are politically responsive to governing elites affects advisers’ functions and responsibilities which needs to be explored in a more systematic manner. How does patronage bureaucracy, various types of political staff, and ministerial advisers interact among each other to provide responsiveness to politicians? Using the most similar systems design, the paper investigates the roles of ministerial advisers in Slovakia and Czechia. Top-level political staff at the ministries typically come from high- ranking members of political parties that control the government. Distribution of these posts reflects the logic of bargaining among governing political parties. The key differencebetween the two cases rests in the fact that the level of patronage in the ministerial bureaucracy is considerable in Slovakia, while in Czechia it is quite limited. In other words, the posts in Slovak ministerial bureaucracy are heavily patronage-based, while the Czech civil service is considered merit-based. The paper uses semi-structured interviews with advisers, top civil servants, and high-ranking political appointees as the main method of investigation.

Návaznosti

GA22-21665S, projekt VaV

Název: Politizace státu ve střední Evropě

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Politizace státu ve střední Evropě

Citovat

STAROŇOVÁ, Katarína a Marek RYBÁŘ. Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Slovakia and Czechia: Political staff, patronage bureaucracy and ministerial advisers at work. In ECPR General Conference 2023. 2023.

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STAROŇOVÁ, Katarína a Marek RYBÁŘ. Bureaucratic Responsiveness in Slovakia and Czechia: Political staff, patronage bureaucracy and ministerial advisers at work. In \textit{ECPR General Conference 2023}. 2023.

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