The Role of the Public Manager: Loyalty, Autonomy or Advocacy?
作者:
Dag Ingvar Jacobsen,
期刊:
Scandinavian Political Studies
(WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 19,
issue 1
页码: 45-66
ISSN:0080-6757
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9477.1996.tb00380.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
It is argued that the role of the public bureaucracy must be analysed along at least two dimensions. One dimension concerns the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats, i.e. the possible conflict between political loyalty and autonomy. The other dimension concerns the relationship between citizens and bureaucracy, i.e. the possible conflict between openness towards citizens and bureaucratic closedness. With the aid of data from a survey of 407 agency heads in Norwegian municipalities, it was possible to group different bureaucrats along the two dimensions. Four categories emerged from the analysis; a political bureaucrat, an autonomous bureaucrat, the “classic” administrator and the “linking pin”. An attempt to predict group membership was made using variables on the societal, organizational as well as individual levels. This attempt was only partially successful, indicating that there is a need for other independent variables to explain group mem
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