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Bureaucrats and expertise: Elucidating a problematic relationship in three tableaux and six jurisdictions
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In this article, the authors examined the role of expertise in the power of bureaucrats in policy-making and found that expertise is primarily defined as either scientific expertise or policy expertise, and the significance of expertise as a source of influence can be questioned.Abstract:
It is frequently assumed that the expertise of bureaucrats gives them policy-making power. This paper examines critically this proposition on the basis of a study of 52 regulations passed in six jurisdictions. The paper presents the material from this study in the form of three tableaux: the bureaucrat as expert, the bureaucrat as mobiliser of expertise and the bureaucrat as servant of experts. Expertise is primarily understood as either scientific expertise or policy expertise –knowledge or experience of a specific policy area. In each tableau the significance of expertise as a source of influence can be questioned. Where “experts” have influence, it is because of their status rather than the content of their expertise. Max Weber himself was ambivalent about the importance of expertise and its role in strengthening bureaucratic power in policy-making is likely to have been exaggerated.read more
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Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.
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From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ policy design: design thinking beyond markets and collaborative governance
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Policy formulation, governance shifts and policy influence: location and content in policy advisory systems
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TL;DR: This paper argued that the growing plurality of advisory sources and the polycentrism associated with these governance shifts challenge the utility of both the implied content and locational dimensions of traditional models of policy advice systems.
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From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ policy design: design thinking beyond markets and collaborative governance
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The dual dynamics of policy advisory systems: The impact of externalization and politicization on policy advice
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TL;DR: The concept of policy advisory systems was introduced by Halligan in 1995 as a way to characterize and analyze the multiple sources of policy advice utilized by governments in policy-making proce....
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Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.
TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of singel factory seen in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureacracy is described, and a partial report, to be followed by another, is given.
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Patterns of industrial bureaucracy
TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of singel factory seen in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureacracy is described, and a partial report, to be followed by another, is given.