Role Understandings and Political Attitudes of Senior Bureaucrats: Empirical Evidence from German Federal Government Departments*

• In Event: Political Appointees and Senior Bureaucrats (Co-sponsored with Section 52: Presidency & Executive Politics)

Brief Overview

Based on evidence from on online-questionnaire (N=181) and in-depth interviews (N=36), this paper investigates the association between civil servant’s job motivations, their adopted role definitions and perceptions of state-society relations.

Authors

• Manfred Roeber, University of Leipzig

• Eckhard Schroeter, German University of the Police