Bureaucratic Responsiveness: Effects of Elected Government, Public Agendas and European Attention on the UK Bureaucracy

Shaun Bevan

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Bureaucratic Responsiveness: Effects of Elected Government, Public Agendas and European Attention on the UK Bureaucracy

Shaun Bevan

School of Social and Political Science

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What determines the bureaucratic agenda? This article combines insights from models of bureaucratic behaviour with agenda-setting models of government attention to test the effects of elected government, public, and EU agendas on the bureaucratic agenda. Using time series cross-sectional analyses of subject and ministry coded data on UK statutory instruments from 1987 to 2008, I find strong effects for both the elected government and EU legislative agendas on UK statutory instruments. Furthermore, by breaking the data into different sets based on their relationship with the EU, several logical differences in these effects are found. These results include the EU agenda having exclusive influence on instruments implementing EU directives, and the UK agenda being the sole driver of bureaucratic attention on those instruments that mention the EU but do not implement EU legislation. This article opens a new avenue for research on bureaucracy by approaching it as a unique policy-making institution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	139-158
Journal	Public Administration
Volume	93
Issue number	1
Early online date	1 Sept 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12113
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2015

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CAP: Comparative Agendas Project
Bevan, S., Baumgartner, F. R., Jones, B., Walgrave , S. & Green-Pedersen, C.
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2 Article
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Devolution is secondary: What drives Scottish secondary legislation?
Bevan, S., Sept 2021, In: Public Administration. 99, 3, p. 517-529 13 p.
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The effect of public attitudes toward the European Union on European Commission policy activity
Williams, C. J. & Bevan, S., 1 Dec 2019, In: European union politics. 20, 4, p. 608-628 21 p.
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Gone Fishing: The Creation of the Comparative Agendas Project Master Codebook
Bevan, S., 22 Mar 2019, Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data. Baumgartner, F., Breunig, C. & Grossman, E. (eds.). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, p. 17-34
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UK Statutory Instruments
Bevan, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 18 May 2015
DOI: 10.7488/ds/248, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padm.12113/abstract and one more link, http://www.comparativeagendas.net/uk (show fewer)
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Acts of Parliament
Bevan, S. (Creator) & Jennings, W. (Creator), UK Policy Agendas Project, 2016
DOI: 10.7488/c9f53478-2eb4-4362-8a62-032a47fd37ed, http://www.comparativeagendas.net/uk
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Devolution is secondary: What drives Scottish secondary legislation?

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