Bureaucratic influence in the formulation of public policy: the case of the system of high public management in Chile
Abstract
How bureaucrats influence in policy formulation? The mainstream of literature postulates that the policy formulation is led by politicians who define the scope of these. However, alternative approaches argue that bureaucrats influence in this process. The aim of this study is to analyze the mechanisms whereby bureaucrats influence policy formulation, through the case study of Sistema de Alta Dirección Pública en Chile (SADP). Evidence indicates that bureaucrats influence on those policies that politicians are not interested, leaving wide areas of discretion, and for a specific expertise that differentiates them from other actors as technocrats or technopols.Keywords:
Bureaucratic influence in the formulation of public policy, the case of the system of high public management in ChileReferences
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Aninat, C y E. Rivera (2009). Coordinación Estratégica en el Estrado de Chile. En Consorcio para la Reforma del Estado, Un Mejor Estado para Chile (pag 81-101). Santiago de Chile
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Bardach, E. (1977). The Implementation Game. Cambridge and London: MIT Press.
Boeninger, E. (2007). Políticas Públicas en Democracia: Institucionalidad y Experiencia Chilena. Santiago de Chile: Uqbar - Cieplan Editores.
Callander, S. (2007). A Theory of Policy Expertise. Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania.
Centeno, M., y Maxfield, S. (1992). The Marriage of Finance and Order: Changes in the Mexican Political Elite. Journal of Latin American Studies, 24, 57-85.
Centeno, M (1993). The New Leviathan: The dynamics and limits of technocracy. Theory and Society, 22(3), 307-335.
Cheng, L., y White, L. (1990). Elite Transformation and Modern Change in Mainland China and Taiwan: Empirical Data and the Theory of Technocracy. The China Quarterly, vol. 121, pp.1-35.
Colebatch, H. (2006a). The Work of Policy: An International Survey. Lexington Books.
Colebatch, H. (2006b). What Work Makes Policy? Policy Science, vol. 39, pp. 309-321.
Colebatch, H., Hoppe, R., & Noordegraaf, N. (2010). Working for Policy. Amsterdam: Amsterdan University Press.
Collier, S. (1979). The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Dahl, R. (1961). Who Governs?: Democracy and Power in an American City, Second Edition. Yale University Press.
Dávila, M. (2010). Tecnocracia y Democracia en el Chile Contemporáneo: el caso de los Gobiernos de la Concertación (1990 -2010). Revista de Sociología(24), 199 -217.
Dávila, M. (2011a). Governing Together: The Concertacion Administrations in Chile (1990--2009) (Tesis Doctoral). North Carolina: the university of north carolina at chapel
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Dávila, M. (2011b). Tecnocracia y política en el Chile posautoritario (1990-2010). En A. Joignant, & P. Güell, Notables, tecnócratas y mandarines: Elementos de sociología de las elites en Chile (1990-2010). Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Diego Portales.
Davila, M, A. Olivares y O. Avendaño (2013). Los Gabinetes de la Concertación en Chile (1990 - 2010). América Latina Hoy, vol 64, pp.67-94.
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