Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics

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Autor(a) principal: Trondal, Jarle
Data de Publicação: 2015
Outros Autores: Murdoch, Zuzana, Geys, Benny
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v3i1.65
Resumo: The vast majority of existing studies on bureaucratic representation focus on bureaucracies’ permanent and internal staff. Yet, the rising sophistication of modern democracies and the technocratization of political life are gradually inducing an increased reliance on external experts to assist in the development and implementation of policy decisions. This trend, we argue, raises the need to extend studies of bureaucratic representation to such external and non-permanent experts in governmental affairs. In this article, we take a first step in this direction using seconded national experts (SNEs) in the European Commission as our empirical laboratory. Our results highlight that Commission SNEs do not appear representative of their constituent population (i.e., the EU-27 population) along a number of socio-demographic dimensions. Moreover, we find that the role perception of “experts” is primarily explained by organizational affiliation, and only secondarily by demographic characteristics (except, of course, education).
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title Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
spellingShingle Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
Trondal, Jarle
bureaucracy; European Commission; expertise; representation; seconded national experts
title_short Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
title_full Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
title_fullStr Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
title_full_unstemmed Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
title_sort Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
author Trondal, Jarle
author_facet Trondal, Jarle
Murdoch, Zuzana
Geys, Benny
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Geys, Benny
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Murdoch, Zuzana
Geys, Benny
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv bureaucracy; European Commission; expertise; representation; seconded national experts
topic bureaucracy; European Commission; expertise; representation; seconded national experts
description The vast majority of existing studies on bureaucratic representation focus on bureaucracies’ permanent and internal staff. Yet, the rising sophistication of modern democracies and the technocratization of political life are gradually inducing an increased reliance on external experts to assist in the development and implementation of policy decisions. This trend, we argue, raises the need to extend studies of bureaucratic representation to such external and non-permanent experts in governmental affairs. In this article, we take a first step in this direction using seconded national experts (SNEs) in the European Commission as our empirical laboratory. Our results highlight that Commission SNEs do not appear representative of their constituent population (i.e., the EU-27 population) along a number of socio-demographic dimensions. Moreover, we find that the role perception of “experts” is primarily explained by organizational affiliation, and only secondarily by demographic characteristics (except, of course, education).
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