Technocrats in cabinets and their policy effects

Alexiadou, Despina; Caramani, Daniele and Bertsou, Eri, eds. (2020) Technocrats in cabinets and their policy effects. In: The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy. Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites . Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 131-147. ISBN 9780367358280

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Abstract

This chapter tests the policy effects of the technocrat and expert ministers of finance, and social welfare, defined as non-elected experts appointed to cabinet positions.