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- Title
Putting experts in their place: Achieving policy impact as an outsider‐academic in civil service reforms in Slovakia.
- Authors
Sedlačko, Michal; Staroňová, Katarína
- Abstract
This paper studies two processes of civil service reform in Slovakia during the period of 2014–2015 in order to reflect on the involvement of an 'outsider‐academic' and her strategies to achieve policy impact. The context of such involvement are multi‐level processes permeated by political interests and poor on evidence, which favour strategic interests, bargaining and political pressure and contestation (the mode of 'powering') and a mode of legal‐based 'puzzling' as opposed to a conceptual, intellectual search for solutions friendly towards outside academics—and achieving only incremental results. We theorise on the success of these strategies (including helping serendipity, throwing ideas to see what sticks, mobilising allies, anchoring a non‐binding concept, and finding and developing long‐term connections) and sketch analogies and differences between the position of an outsider‐academic and a policy entrepreneur. We rely on auto‐ethnographic data and documentation of the work of the committees involved and their outputs.
- Subjects
SLOVAKIA; CIVIL service; BUSINESSPEOPLE; REFORMS; WORKS councils; SERENDIPITY
- Publication
International Journal of Social Welfare, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 1, p86
- ISSN
1369-6866
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ijsw.12538