Ministry Turnover and Public Administration Attractiveness

• In Event: Public Administration from a Global Perspective

Abstract

Public administration needs to attract professionals, understood as those individuals with tertiary education, to provide goods and services efficiently. However, under what conditions does it result attractive to them nowadays? Scholars examined the role of politicians on one side and professionals’ economic and pro-social motivations on the other. Without entirely neglecting these factors, I will test the importance of the political context in their decision-making. Mainly, I will look at whether ministry turnover is a factor that makes public administration less attractive to professionals, particularly in those countries with weak bureaucratic institutionalization. To understand current job preferences, I will use original data from a conjoint survey experiment conducted between December 2023 and March 2024 to late undergraduates and recently graduated individuals in Peru and Chile, two countries that have experienced rising levels of political instability in the last years but, at the same time, granted different levels of job stability to their national-level bureaucrats

Author

• Felix Puemape, Temple University