Replication Data for The Technocratic Tendencies of Economists in Government Bureaucracy (doi:10.7910/DVN/W4XJ1Q)

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Title:

Replication Data for The Technocratic Tendencies of Economists in Government Bureaucracy

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/W4XJ1Q

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Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2021-01-11

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1

Bibliographic Citation:

Mandelkern, Ronen; Christensen, Johan, 2021, "Replication Data for The Technocratic Tendencies of Economists in Government Bureaucracy", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/W4XJ1Q, Harvard Dataverse, V1

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for The Technocratic Tendencies of Economists in Government Bureaucracy

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/W4XJ1Q

Authoring Entity:

Mandelkern, Ronen (Tel Aviv University)

Christensen, Johan (Leiden University)

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Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Mandelkern, Ronen

Depositor:

Mandelkern, Ronen

Date of Deposit:

2021-01-07

Study Scope

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Social Sciences

Abstract:

Economists are by many accounts the most influential group of experts in contemporary political decision-making. While the literature on the power of economists mostly focuses on the policy ideas of economic experts, some recent studies suggest that economists also hold particular technocratic ideas about the policy process. The article systematically tests this argument. Focusing on economists within government bureaucracy, the study is based on a quantitative analysis of a large-scale survey of Norwegian ministerial civil servants. It finds that economists are more likely to hold technocratic role perceptions than officials with other educational backgrounds only if they work in the finance ministry or in higher administrative grades. The findings contribute to scholarship on the political sway of economists and to debates about technocracy and the technocratic views of civil servants. This dataset contains two files: 1. An Excel file that contains the full codebook. 2. A Stata .do file with the code we used in our analysis. Original datasets are available at Norske forskningsdata: 1996 survey DOI: https://doi.org/10.18712/NSD-NSD1925-1-V3 2006 survey DOI: https://doi.org/10.18712/NSD-NSD1926-1-V3 2016 survey DOI: https://doi.org/10.18712/NSD-NSD2670-2-V2

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Original datasets are available at Norske forskningsdata: 1996 survey DOI: https://doi.org/10.18712/NSD-NSD1925-1-V3 2006 survey DOI: https://doi.org/10.18712/NSD-NSD1926-1-V3 2016 survey DOI: https://doi.org/10.18712/NSD-NSD2670-2-V2

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Christensen_Mandelkern_2021_Codebook.xlsx

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Christensen_Mandelkern_2021_Syntax.do

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