From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas
The institutionalization of the role of ministerial advisers in most parliamentary democracies has transformed what was once à pas de deux between ministers and senior civil servants into a ménage à trois. This article assesses the impact of ministerial advisers on the contest of policy ideas. It ma...
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| description | The institutionalization of the role of ministerial advisers in most parliamentary democracies has transformed what was once à pas de deux between ministers and senior civil servants into a ménage à trois. This article assesses the impact of ministerial advisers on the contest of policy ideas. It makes a theoretical case for paying closer attention to this issue than has thus far been the case, and assesses civil servants’ perceptions of advisers’ influence on contestability. The core conclusion, which is at variance with much of the scholarship on ministerial advisers, is that advisers pose a greater threat to policy contestability than to civil service impartiality. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7c36eefc11cc404fb0906d014f2d96392025-01-09T16:25:57ZengOpenEditionInternational Review of Public Policy2679-38732706-62742020-12-01226428010.4000/irpp.1502From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideasRichard ShawChris EichbaumThe institutionalization of the role of ministerial advisers in most parliamentary democracies has transformed what was once à pas de deux between ministers and senior civil servants into a ménage à trois. This article assesses the impact of ministerial advisers on the contest of policy ideas. It makes a theoretical case for paying closer attention to this issue than has thus far been the case, and assesses civil servants’ perceptions of advisers’ influence on contestability. The core conclusion, which is at variance with much of the scholarship on ministerial advisers, is that advisers pose a greater threat to policy contestability than to civil service impartiality.https://journals.openedition.org/irpp/1502politicizationministerial adviserspolitical adviserspolitical staffcore executivecontestability |
| spellingShingle | Richard Shaw Chris Eichbaum From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas International Review of Public Policy politicization ministerial advisers political advisers political staff core executive contestability |
| title | From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas |
| title_full | From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas |
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| title_full_unstemmed | From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas |
| title_short | From ménage à trois back to pas de deux? Ministerial advisers, civil servants and the contest of policy ideas |
| title_sort | from menage a trois back to pas de deux ministerial advisers civil servants and the contest of policy ideas |
| topic | politicization ministerial advisers political advisers political staff core executive contestability |
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