Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers

Edited by Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

• Contents:PART I SETTING THE SCENE1 Introduction to the Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers 2Richard Shaw and Chris Eichbaum2 Of ideal-types and images: advisers and political-administrative relations 13Alexandre Belloir and Caspar van den Berg3 The story so far: what we know (and don’t know) about ministerial advisers 26Athanassios GouglasPART II THEORISING THE FIELD4 Institutions matter: new institutionalist approaches to the study ofministerial advisers 46Fabrizio Di Mascio and Alessandro Natalini5 Public service bargains: advisers in the executive ménage à trois 61Richard Shaw and Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen6 Policy advisory systems: location, agency, and influence 76Sylvia Veit7 From institutionalism to court politics and all points between: thetheoretical context of executive government 89R. A. W. RhodesPART III EMPIRICAL METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES8 Survey research and ministerial advisers’ scholarship 110Kristoffer Kolltveit, Rune Karlsen, and Jostein Askim9 Using the interpretivist methodology 123Amalie Trangbæk and Mathilde Cecchini10 The comparative method in ministerial adviser research 137Heath Pickering, Marleen Brans, and Guy Peters11 Studying ministerial advisers’ careers and profiles: the prosopographicmethod 155Marleen Brans, Arthur Meert, Pieter Moens, and Pierre Squevin12 Systematic literature reviews: opportunities and limits in ministerialadviser research 173Arthur Meert, Heath Pickering, Marleen Brans, and Athanassios GouglasPART IV ADVICE AND ADVISERS AROUND THE WORLD13 Traditions in Asia 197Wei Li14 Ministerial advisers in central and eastern Europe: transition belts orsomething else? 208Katar’na Staroňov‡ and Marek Ryb‡ř15 The Continental tradition of ministerial advice: no institutional homefor ministerial advisers? 221Thurid Hustedt16 Ministerial advisers in political systems of the Napoleonicadministrative tradition: the ministerial cabinet 232Arthur Meert, Marleen Brans, Fabrizio Di Mascio, Athanassios Gouglas,Alessandro Natalini, and Patrícia Silva17 Ministerial advisers in the Scandinavian tradition 251Jostein Askim, Kristoffer Kolltveit, and Eivind Smith18 Conceptualising the ministerial adviser in Latin America: roles andrelationships with the bureaucracy 266Diego Salazar-Morales19 ‘31 Flavors’: the American system of ministerial (secretarial) advisers 282Evan T. Haglund20 The Westminster tradition 296Bernadette Connaughton, Charis Rice, and Richard ShawPART V MATTERS ARISING21 Advising political leaders: history matters 313Andrew Blick22 Ministerial advisers and policy-making 326Jonathan Craft23 Policy-making in the executive triangle: a comparative perspective onministers, advisers, and civil servants 338Tobias Bach and Thurid Hustedt24 Politics and politicisation: bane or boon companion? 352Dennis C. Grube25 Keeping them honest: accountability and regulation 365Yee-Fui Ng26 Ministerial advisers and the media 378Rune Karlsen and Kristoffer Kolltveit27 The biographies of ministerial advisers: why and how gender and careertrajectories matter 390Maria MaleyPART VI WHERE TO FROM HERE FOR MINISTERIAL ANDPOLITICAL ADVISERS?28 For better or for worse? Into the future 406Richard ShawGlossary: common terms and concepts found in the literature on ministerial advisers 419Heath Pickering

‘Shaw has curated a welcome and important contribution to our understanding of Ministerial and Political Advisers. Comprehensive in scope, theoretically and methodologically innovative, and empirically satisfying, this collection has a great deal to offer researchers and practitioners.’