| Titre | Bridging the Archipelago: Toward an Integrative Approach to Studying Bureaucratic Politicization | |
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| Auteur | Alexandre Belloir, Richard Shaw, Caspar Van Den Berg | |
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Revue | International Review of Public Policy |
| Numéro | vol. 7, no 2, 2025 | |
| Page | 164-190 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Despite ample attention to bureaucratic politicization in the public administration literature, most research remains siloed, focusing on individual forms of politicization (formal, functional, or administrative) and limited to single-country analyses. When a comparative stance is adopted, it often concentrates on comparing countries with the same administrative tradition (e.g., Westminster countries). This paper advocates for a comprehensive comparative research approach that integrates all forms and spans administrative traditions, treating the three forms of politicization as analytically distinct but empirically interdependent. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with senior civil servants (n=27) in four countries with distinct administrative tradition - Ireland (Westminster), the Netherlands (Germanic), Norway (Scandinavian), and Spain (Napoleonic) – the study introduces an integrated typology and applies it to demonstrate how politicization manifests across various administrative contexts. The findings reveal that politicization is best understood as a composite phenomenon shaped by institutional rules, organizational practices, and civil servants' interpretive behaviors. This study provides a cross-dimensional, comparative lens that not only bridges conceptual silos, but also offers a more nuanced, context-sensitive understanding of how politicization unfolds in practice. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/5307 |
