Politicisation of the Civil Service: Contestation and Context


Staronova K. Knox C.
1 December 2024Sciendo

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy
2024#17Issue 2215 - 237 pp.

The politicization of the civil service is not a new phenomenon but it is highly contested and contingent on the environmental and institutional contexts in which it operates. The global environment has changed radically and has become more turbulent witnessed by, inter alia, the rise of populism and democratic backsliding. Institutional contexts have also changed as politicians demand greater accountability from officials in implementing their (mandated) policies. What is new is the various forms that politicization takes. This review paper takes relations between politicians, political staff and bureaucracy and offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the politicization concept: politicized appointments; politicized recruitment; behavioural politicization; and, structural politicization. We analyse politicization in different regimes: the UK as liberal democracy; Georgia as electoral democracy; and Turkey as electoral autocracy.

behavioral politicization , patronage , political appointments , politicization , structural politicization

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Institute of Public Policy, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Graduate School of Public Policy, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

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