ABSTRACT

Whether and how bureaucrats are influential actors in policy-making are core questions of Public Administration (PA) research; however, most studies have focused on executive bureaucracies, while their legislative counterparts have received only limited attention. Now that a new research agenda on parliamentary administrations has emerged, this article seeks to bridge the gap between PA and legislative studies to compare and contrast bureaucratic influence in both branches. For this purpose, the article introduces established determinants of influence in the study of governmental administrations and applies them to the legislature. It shows that, based on the dominant configuration of individual, organisational and institutional factors, the likelihood of specific modes of bureaucratic influence is different from governmental administrations. Generally, however, these modes of influence are not exclusive to governments or parliaments but rather contingent on the specific politico-administrative setting, revealing several avenues for future research.

摘要

官僚是否以及如何成为决策中的有影响力的参与者是公共管理 (PA) 研究的核心问题；然而，大多数研究都集中在行政官僚机构上，而对立法机构的关注却很有限。既然已经出现了关于议会管理的新研究议程，本文试图弥合公共广播和立法研究之间的差距，以比较和对比两个部门的官僚影响。为此，本文介绍了政府行政研究中影响力的既定决定因素，并将其应用于立法机构。它表明，基于个人、组织和制度因素的主导配置，官僚影响的特定模式的可能性不同于政府行政。