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Top bureaucrats and Politicians: Continuity or Change in Attributes, Attitudes, and Role Understanding? : Findings from Germany
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2011-02-16
Author(s)
Abstract
The German political-administrative elites are still characterized as mainly male, stemming from the middle-class, especially from families with bureaucratic backgrounds. Supposedly they are predominantly academic persons with the majority having a degree in law (monopoly of jurists). Those statements though, still rely on empirical data resulting from a study which was conducted for Germany within the Comparative Elite Studies II (CES) in 1987, which itself was a replication of the CES in 1970 by Aberbach, Putnam and Rockman.
However, since them many changes have taken place in Germany. The reunification as well as a tendency towards more Europeanization and globalization exerted influence on the political-administrative system. Therefore, we can assume that the political and administrative elites have changed concerning their constitutions, attitudes and role understandings.
This paper is dedicated to the question as to whether the political and administrative elite have changed. Data from two surveys will be analyzed. The two surveys are the PAE 2005 conducted by Katja Schwanke and Falk Ebinger (a replication of the CES II) and the PALe 2007 conducted by Katja Schwanke and Steffen Eckhard. The former is surveying the federal political and administrative elites in 2005, the later is a replication for two German Länder (Bavaria and Hesse) in 2007. To anticipate the main conclusion, continuity more than change can be verified.
However, since them many changes have taken place in Germany. The reunification as well as a tendency towards more Europeanization and globalization exerted influence on the political-administrative system. Therefore, we can assume that the political and administrative elites have changed concerning their constitutions, attitudes and role understandings.
This paper is dedicated to the question as to whether the political and administrative elite have changed. Data from two surveys will be analyzed. The two surveys are the PAE 2005 conducted by Katja Schwanke and Falk Ebinger (a replication of the CES II) and the PALe 2007 conducted by Katja Schwanke and Steffen Eckhard. The former is surveying the federal political and administrative elites in 2005, the later is a replication for two German Länder (Bavaria and Hesse) in 2007. To anticipate the main conclusion, continuity more than change can be verified.
Language
English
Keywords
Top bureaucrats
Politicians
Role understanding
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Book title
Whatever Happened to North-South?
Publisher
IPSA
Publisher place
Montréal
Start page
24
Event Title
IPSA-ECPR Joint Conference 2011
Event Location
Sao Paulo
Event Date
16.-19.02.2011
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
211139