How and How Much Do International Public Administrations Matter?

Abstract

Politicians depend on the bureaucracy to get information about the different options for decisions they can make, with their primary role being restricted to defining policy goals, advancing interests in the decision-making process. Bureaucrats influence the policy agenda of political actors because they control the flow of information to politicians and hence the problems, solutions that political actors consider. Politicians depend on the bureaucracy to get information about the different options for decisions they can make, with their primary role being restricted to defining policy goals, advancing interests in the decision-making process. To capture the extent to which different actors might affect the making and shaping of public policies, the political science and public policy literature relies on various concepts. The policy influence of IPAs might also emerge through institutional entrepreneurship. Institutional entrepreneurship refers to the “activities of actors who have an interest in particular institutional arrangements and who leverage resources to create new institutions or to transform existing ones”.