Beyond Visibility : Unrecognized Advisers in Policy Advisory
Systems

J 2025

Beyond Visibility : Unrecognized Advisers in Policy Advisory Systems

STAROŇOVÁ, Katarína a Marek RYBÁŘ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Beyond Visibility : Unrecognized Advisers in Policy Advisory Systems

Autoři

STAROŇOVÁ, Katarína a Marek RYBÁŘ

Vydání

POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL, Hoboken, Wiley, 2025, 0190-292X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50600 5.6 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.900 v roce 2024

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

advice-giving mechanism; invisible adviser; meritocracy; patronage; policy advisory system; value congruence

Štítky

EV_FSS25, online first

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 30. 12. 2025 20:18, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

Recent research on policy advisory systems (PAS) has highlighted their variation across regions, jurisdictions, time, and policydomains, emphasizing the role of policy advice access to issue networks and ideational compatibility between advisers and ad-visees as key factors. While PAS scholarship is expanding, it remains underpinned by implicit assumptions that advisers operatewithin permanent, meritocratically selected bureaucracies and that policy actors function in an open, pluralistic political culturethat prioritizes expertise. The article advances the study of PAS by introducing the advice-giving mechanism (AGM) frameworkto explain how ministerial advisers gain influence in both meritocratic and patronage-based bureaucracies. The study demon-strates that the character of the bureaucracy conditions the strategies, visibility, and influence of advisers. It also explores howinvisible advisers enter the PAS, interact with other executive actors, and assume distinct roles, thus indicating their access todecision-making. The article identifies new types of ministerial advisers in such contexts: lone rangers and personal trustees,whose emergence challenges conventional models of policy advice. The AGM framework highlights how informal, often adviser-driven entry, their operation outside formal hierarchies, and isolation from other actors amplify their influence, raising concernsabout transparency and legitimacy in patronage-based and polarized governance settings.

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. Beyond Visibility : Unrecognized Advisers in Policy Advisory Systems. POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL. Hoboken: Wiley, 2025, s. 1-16. ISSN 0190-292X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70080.

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STAROŇOVÁ, Katarína a Marek RYBÁŘ. Beyond Visibility : Unrecognized Advisers in Policy Advisory Systems. \textit{POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL}. Hoboken: Wiley, 2025, s.~1-16. ISSN~0190-292X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70080.

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