Who gets political appointments?: Party loyalty and bureaucratic expertise in Brazil (2014)
- Authors:
- Autor USP: BARBERIA, LORENA GUADALUPE - FFLCH
- Unidade: FFLCH
- Subjects: FILIAÇÃO PARTIDÁRIA; SERVIDOR PÚBLICO; POLÍTICA E GOVERNO
- Language: Inglês
- Abstract: We use a new and original dataset of Brazilian federal government employees and their party affiliations to examine whether high-level political appointments are driven primarily by meritocracy or patronage. Our results, contrary to long-standing debate in the political science literature on how bureaucrats move ahead, show that neither hypothesis is correct. Administrative experience is fundamental for the so-called highest level of “DAS” (an acronym of Direção e Assessoramento Superior, or High Level Execution and Advisory) appointees who were in office during the first year of Dilma Rouseff’s Administration. At the same time, we also find that partisanship matters significantly. High-level appointees were more likely to be affiliated with the Worker’s Party as opposed to coalition or opposition parties, or nonpartisan. Surprisingly, the degree which partisanship matters is not uniform throughout the federal bureaucracy and is less important in some areas considered traditional bastions for the Worker’s Party. We show that there are some ministries and government agencies in the economic and social policy areas and in the executive branch in which administrative experience predominates over partisanship.
- Imprenta:
- Publisher: ABCP
- Publisher place: Rio de Janeiro
- Date published: 2014
- Source:
- Título: Anais eletrônicos
- Conference titles: Encontro da ABCP: 1964-2014: autoritarismo, democracia e direitos humanos
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ABNT
PRAÇA, Sérgio e BARBERIA, Lorena Guadalupe. Who gets political appointments?: Party loyalty and bureaucratic expertise in Brazil. 2014, Anais.. Rio de Janeiro: ABCP, 2014. . Acesso em: 09 abr. 2026. -
APA
Praça, S., & Barberia, L. G. (2014). Who gets political appointments?: Party loyalty and bureaucratic expertise in Brazil. In Anais eletrônicos. Rio de Janeiro: ABCP. -
NLM
Praça S, Barberia LG. Who gets political appointments?: Party loyalty and bureaucratic expertise in Brazil. Anais eletrônicos. 2014 ;[citado 2026 abr. 09 ] -
Vancouver
Praça S, Barberia LG. Who gets political appointments?: Party loyalty and bureaucratic expertise in Brazil. Anais eletrônicos. 2014 ;[citado 2026 abr. 09 ] - Political science and global health policy
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