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