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Marlene Jugl, Patterns of bureaucracy: Conceptualizing administrative traditions

Marlene Jugl, Patterns of bureaucracy: Conceptualizing administrative traditions This webinar presents a new study on administrative traditions (AT). Although AT is a prominent approach to classify and compare administrative systems across countries, there is a lack of agreement on the definition and conceptual dimensions of AT. This research addresses this gap by synthesizing existing knowledge on AT and refining its conceptualization in three steps. First, a systematic review of 505 publications since 1998 elucidates the diverse understandings of AT and the study contexts in which the concept is used. Secondly, ten AT attributes that emerged from the review are operationalized with secondary data for 49 administrative systems from across the world. Using exploratory factor analysis, the study identifies two underlying dimensions of the AT concept: Citizen orientation and Structural concentration. In a third step, two indices are proposed to measure AT along these two dimensions and apply it to map contemporary administrative systems from 49 diverse countries. The analysis uncovers important variation within assumed country families such as the Anglo-American or post-communist groups. The webinar discusses how this work contributes to the literature, and how it can be used and advanced in future research. Marlene Jugl is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Bocconi University, Italy. She holds a doctoral degree from the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research interests include comparative public administration, the effects of country size on governance and administration, crisis management, and administrative traditions.