Executive Politics in Times of Crisis (Executive Politics and Governance)

Executive Politics in Times of Crisis brings together leading international scholars to consider key trends and challenges that have defined executive politics over the past decade. It showcases key debates in executive politics and contributes to an understanding of the 'executive factor' in political life. What are the key trends and challenges facing contemporary executive politics? How do systems of executive politics respond to different types of crisis? How can we define the contemporary setting of executive politics? Executive Politics in Times of Crisis explores these questions. It brings together leading international scholars and showcases key conceptual and substantive arguments, thereby contributing to our understanding of key debates involving the 'executive factor' in political life. The contributors to the volume consider key concepts and developments which challenge existing stereotypes about the way in which the executive and the execution of policies operate. This includes debates about politicization, internationalization, managerialism, policy instruments and blame with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the lesser developed world. The contributors consider how executive politics has responded to and is challenged by contemporary crises, setting the international agenda for the study of executive politics Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: Executive Politics in Times of Crisis....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 The Internationalization of National Bureaucracy: The Impact on Relationships between Politicians and Bureaucrats....Pages 19-40 Presidential Politicization of the Executive Branch in the United States....Pages 41-62 The Macro-Politics of Managerialism: Revisiting Weberian Perspectives....Pages 63-80 Theorizing the Political Factor in International Development Management....Pages 81-98 Towards NPM-ization of the Post-Communist State?....Pages 99-117 Executive Politics and Policy Instruments....Pages 118-135 Executive Politics and the Governance of Public Finance....Pages 136-156 Attention and Reputation: Linking Regulators’ Internal and External Worlds....Pages 157-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Aligning Executive Action in Times of Adversity: The Politics of Crisis Co-Ordination....Pages 179-196 The Executive at Work during Times of Crisis....Pages 197-216 Governance, Governing and the Capacity of Executives in Times of Crisis....Pages 217-238 Executive Politics, Risk and the Mega-Project Paradox....Pages 239-263 Sectoral Dynamics in Executive Politics: Co-Ordinating Climate Policy in Germany....Pages 264-283 Conclusion: Executive Politics in a Changing Climate....Pages 284-296 Back Matter....Pages 297-300