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9780415700252

The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective: A Quest for Control

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    9780415700252

  • ISBN10:

    0415700256

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-07-02
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made from outside the civil service system, anonymity, partisanship and systems used to handle appointees of prior administrations in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Britain, New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Greece.

Table of Contents

List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors x
Acknowledgements xi
1 Politicization of the civil service: concepts, causes, consequences 1(13)
B. GUY PETERS AND JON PIERRE
2 Political responsiveness in a merit bureaucracy: Denmark 14(27)
JØRGEN GRØNNEGARD CHRISTENSEN
3 Politicization of the Swedish civil service: a necessary evil - or just evil? 41(14)
JON PIERRE
4 The politicization of the German civil service: a three-dimensional portrait of the ministerial bureaucracy 55(26)
ECKHARD SCHRÖTER
5 Politicization of the civil service in France: from structural to strategic politicization 81(20)
LUC ROUBAN
6 The British civil service: examining the question of politicisation 101(24)
CHARLOTTE, SAUSMAN AND RACHEL LOCKE
7 Politicization in the United States 125(14)
B. GUY PETERS
8 The search for a responsive bureaucracy in Canada 139(20)
DONALD J. SAVOIE
9 Dire expectations but subtle transformations? Politicisation and the New Zealand Public Service 159(19)
ROBERT GREGORY
10 Politicization in the Belgian civil service 178(28)
GUIDO DIERICKX
11 Dutch government reform and the quest for political control 206(21)
FRITS M. VAN DER MEER
12 Politicisation of the Spanish civil service: continuity in 1982 and 1996 227(30)
SALVADOR PARRADO DIEZ
13 Two faces of politicization of the civil service: the case of contemporary Greece 257(26)
DIMITRI A. SOTIROPOULOS
14 Conclusion: political control in a managerialist world 283(8)
B. GUY PETERS AND JON PIERRE
Index 291

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