The triangle of bureaucratic policy analysis and the professional types of high‐level civil servants: Empirical evidence from Southern Europe.
Despite the growing interest in the policy work and analytical capacities of bureaucracies, these dimensions have not been treated as central to characterizing and understanding the role of senior civil servants in policymaking, which is usually conceptualized in terms of their relationship with pol...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 53; no. 1; pp. 69 - 91 |
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