Agenda control in an unstable multiparty parliamentary democracy: evidence from the Israeli public sector |
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Authors: | Maoz Rosenthal |
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Institution: | (1) The Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), P.O. Box 167, 46150 Herzliya, Israel |
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Abstract: | As elected politicians’ knowledge, information and expertise about the policy process decrease, so will their ability to control
it and to independently shape its agenda. When elected politicians spend less time in their positions due to cabinet instability,
they will have less knowledge about policy issues in comparison to career bureaucrats. Multiparty parliamentary systems are
characterized by cabinet instability, hence increasing the likelihood of this phenomenon. Indeed it has been shown that in
these systems the bureaucracy is the main player in the policy process. This paper illustrates this phenomenon in the Israeli
context, a clear example of a multiparty democracy with an unstable cabinet and a dominant bureaucracy. |
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