The politics of government reorganization in Western Europe
The politics of government reorganization in Western Europe
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10.1111/gove.12670
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2022-02
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J. Fleischer;Philippe Bezes;O. James;Kutsal Yesilkagit
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作者：
J. Fleischer;Philippe Bezes;O. James;Kutsal Yesilkagit
政府重组对于政党上台后表达其政策偏好至关重要。然而，这些活动并不局限于大选后的直接后果或广泛的结构改革。相反，政府一直在重组和调整政府机器。本文旨在评估这些结构性选择，特别关注国家的核心，比较1980年至2013年的四个西欧民主国家（德国，法国，荷兰和英国）。我们的实证分析表明，内阁的意识形态在短期和长期内发生了更大的变化，以及单位与政治高管的接近程度产生了显着的影响。相比之下，保守党政府，通常被认为是重组政府的主要推动者，对结构性变化的可能性并不重要。我们讨论了这种政治的政府重组不同的研究辩论评估政府的内部运作的影响。
The reorganization of governments is crucial for parties to express their policy preferences once they reach office. Yet these activities are not confined to the direct aftermath of general elections or to wide‐ranging structural reforms. Instead, governments reorganize and adjust their machinery of government all the time. This paper aims to assess these structural choices with a particular focus at the core of the state, comparing four Western European democracies (Germany, France, the Netherlands, and United Kingdom) from 1980 to 2013. Our empirical analysis shows that stronger shifts in cabinets' ideological profiles in the short‐ and long‐term as well as the units' proximity to political executives yield significant effects. In contrast, Conservative governments, commonly regarded as key promoters of reorganizing governments, are not significant for the likelihood of structural change. We discuss the effects of this politics of government reorganization for different research debates assessing the inner workings of governments.