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Does NPM Increase the Politicization of the Civil Service
(2013-02)This paper studies the relationship between New Public Management (NPM) and the political re-cruitment of civil servants. Some claim that NPM has had the unintended effect of muddling the politico-administrational divide, ... -
The Political Background of Agency Heads in Sweden: Trends and Explanations, 1960-2010
(2012-02)Previous research has described both theoretically and empirically, the negative consequences of having a politicized civil service, recruited on political instead of professional merits. However, we know fairly little ...