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Mobilność urzędnicza w ujęciu teoretycznym
Civil servants' mobility from a theoretical perspective

Author(s): Łukasz Świetlikowski
Subject(s): Politics, Public Administration, Public Law
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: mobility; politicization; professionalization; civil service; Weberian bureaucracy; new public management; governance

Summary/Abstract: The author argues that the clerical mobility - related to the career paths of civil servants - is closely connected not only to politics understood as the struggle for power (leading political science point of view) but also to public policy. Against this background, he analyzes the occupational mobility of public officials, taking into account the processes of public administration politicization and professionalization. I search for the interrelations between this phenomena, civil service systems (career and position based) and governance models (Weberian bureaucracy, new public management, governance / good governance). He defines the type of the influence of mobility on the civil servants' professionalism and state agility. For this purpose, the author also examines the typical advantages and disadvantages of clerical mobility as well as the influence the politicians exert on it.

  • Issue Year: 10/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 153-171
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English, Polish