Governing the purple zone: How politicians influence public managers

Benedetta Bellò and Alessandro Spano

European Management Journal, 2015, vol. 33, issue 5, 354-365

Abstract: One of the issues raised by the New Political Governance (NPG) is the independence of senior management from politicians in public sector organizations. This article investigates how politicians influence managerial activities by providing empirical evidence for the existence of a deep form of politicization and a partisan management of public service in Italy. This relationship is also called the “purple” zone, where the “blue” of political strategy and the “red” of public administration merge in “strategic conversation”.

Keywords: New political governance; Politics-administration dichotomy; Political influence; Managerial autonomy; Managerial power; Managerial responsibility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2015.04.002

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