PUBLICATIONS

Welcome to the CoREx publications section. Here you can explore a variety of research papers related to the Comparative Research on the Executive Triangle.

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Political change and administrative turnover in meritocratic systems

Askim, J., Bach, T., & Christensen, J. G. (2024). In West European Politics, 47(2), 329-355.

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Bureaucracies and Policy Ideas

Bach, T. (2021). In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press.

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Top Officials’ Careers and the Relationship between Politics and Administration

Bach, T. (2020). In The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 13(2), 35-48.

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More Delegation, More Political Control? Politicization of Senior Level Appointments in 18 European Countries.

Bach, T., Hammerschmid, G., & Löffler, L. (2020). In Public Policy and Administration, 35(1), 3-23.

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Policy-making in the executive triangle – a comparative perspective on ministers, advisers and civil servants

Bach, T., & Hustedt, T. (2023). In R. Shaw (Ed.), Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers (pp. 338-351). Edward Elgar.

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Top Officials in Turbulent Times: Converging Research Agendas in Europe East and West

Bach, T., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., & Staroňová, K. (2020). In The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 13(2), 25-34.

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Politicians and Bureaucrats in Executive Government

Bach, T., & Wegrich, K. (2020). In R. B. Andeweg, R. Elgie, L. Helms, J. Kaarbo, & F. Müller-Rommel (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives (pp. 525-546). Oxford University Press.

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Role Models in the Senior Civil Service: How Tasks Frame the Identification of Senior Bureaucrats with Active and Reactive Roles

Ebinger, F., Veit, S., and Strobel, B. (2022). International Journal of Public Administration 45 (14), 991-1002.

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Politicization beyond the Merit-system Façade. The Intricate Relationship between Formal and Informal Institutions of the Senior Civil Service Systems in Central and Eastern Europe

Gajduschek, G. and Staronova, K. (2023). In International Journal of Public Administration, 46:9, pp. 647-658

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The story so far: What we know (and don’t know) about ministerial advisers

Gouglas, A. (2023). In Richard Shaw (ed) Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers, Edward Elgar.

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Decabinetisation as a Presidentialisation Strategy: a Process-Tracing Analysis of the Executive State Law in Greece

Meert, A., Gouglas, A., Brans, M. (2024). In Journal of European Public Policy.

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Systematic literature reviews: opportunities and limits for advisers’ research

Meert, A., Pickering, H., Brans, M. and Gouglas, A. (2023). In Richard Shaw on Ministerial and Political Advisers, Edward Elgar.

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Life After Whitehall: The Career Moves of British Special Advisers

Orchard, D., Gouglas, A. Pickering, H. (2023). In British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 26/1.

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The Politics of Bureaucracy: The Central and Eastern European Perspective

Randma-Liiv, T. and Drechsler W. (2019). In The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 21(3): 504-512.

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Public Service Development in Estonia: from Patronage to Meritocracy

Randma-Liiv, T., Pesti, C. and K. Sarapuu. (2022). In Baimenov, A. and P. Liverakos (eds) Public Service Evolution in the 15 Post-Soviet Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, 135-166.

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From Network to Hierarchy: the Evolution of the Estonian Senior Civil Service Development System

Randma-Liiv, T., Uudelepp, A. and K. Sarapuu. (2015). In International Review of Administrative Sciences, 81(2): 373-391.

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A comparative analysis of senior civil servants’ involvement in media management

Salomonsen, H. H., Flinders, M., & Hustedt, T. (2024). In Policy & Politics (published online ahead of print 2024).

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Personal or party roots of civil service patronage? Ministerial change effects on the appointments of top civil servants

Staronova, K., & Rybář, M. (2021). In Administration & Society, 53(5), 651-679.

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Does the cradle of power exist? Sequence analysis of top bureaucrats' career trajectories

Trangbæk, A. (2022). In Governance, 36(2), 609-627.

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Comparing Ministerial Advisers across Politicizations Settings: Still Hiding in the Shadows?

Staronova, K. and Rybář, M. (2024). In Governance 37(1), 201-219.

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Policy Advisory Systems: Location, Agency and Influence

Veit, S. (2023). In: Richard Shaw (ed.): Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers. Cheltenham/Northhampton: Edward Elgar, 76-88.

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Preservation of Differences or Adaptation to Western Germany? Descriptive Representation, Career Patterns and Politicisation of Top Civil Servants in Eastern Germany

Veit, S. (2023). In German Politics 32 (1), 149-168.

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Politisch-administrative Eliten in Deutschland. Sozialprofile und Karriereverläufe seit dem Kaiserreich unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der NS-Zeit

Veit, S. (2024). With the support of Vedder, S. Publication Series of the German Federal Archive, Special Series „Forschungsprogramm zur Auseinandersetzung mit der NS-Vergangenheit zentraler dt. Behörden“. Berlin: Gebr. Mann.

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How do Supreme Audit Institutions Reflect Societal Change? A Prosopographical Analysis of Top Civil Servants in the German States (1945-2022)

Veit, S.,and Seyfried, M. (2023). der moderne staat (dms) – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management 16 (2), 536-554.

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Measuring civil service politicization with career data: Backstage and frontstage political experience of top civil servants in the German ministerial administration

Veit, S., and Vedder, S. (2024). Public Administration 102 (3), 1119-1136.

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Quiet Politicization in Northern Europe

Askim, J., Bach, T., & Christensen, J. G. (forthcoming). In B. G.

Political Advisers in Modern Democracies

Gouglas, A. (forthcoming). In Dark Masters? Edward-Elgar.