Bureaucratic structures, politicization, and governance outcomes

Readings and class materials for Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Readings

  • María del Carmen Pardo, “Civil Service,” in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser, and Leonardo Morlino (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2011), 255–59, https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412959636.n68.

  •  Chapters 1 and 2 in Carl Dahlström and Victor Lapuente, Organizing Leviathan: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Making of Good Government (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316822869.

  • Agnes Cornell, “Why Bureaucratic Stability Matters for the Implementation of Democratic Governance Programs,” Governance 27, no. 2 (April 2013): 191–214, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12037.

Article discussion reminder

How to discuss an article in a seminar

  • Who wrote the article? What’s their background?
  • General summary of the article
  • Strengths
  • Weaknesses
  • How does it connect to other readings?
  • How does it connect to the broader course themes?
  • How does it connect to current events?
  • What does it add to our Global Bureaucracy Toolkit?

Plan for the day

  • Institutions and comparative public administration

    • Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell, “The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields,” American Sociological Review 48, no. 2 (April 1983): 147–60, https://doi.org/10.2307/2095101.
  • Bureaucratic structures, politicization, and governance outcomes

    • Pardo, “Civil Service.”
    • Dahlström and Lapuente, Organizing Leviathan.
    • Cornell, “Why Bureaucratic Stability Matters for the Implementation of Democratic Governance Programs.”
  • Graphing helping time