Political transitions: Opportunities to renegotiate the public service bargain

Abstract

Abstract Adopting a public service perspective of transitions in Westminster systems and connecting literature on transitions with public service bargains (PSBs), this research note proposes that transitions not only increase existing tensions between politicians and the public service, but also provide opportunities to forge newPSBsto defuse these tensions. It argues that public service institutions should move beyond individually negotiated transition responses towards corporately drivenPSBnegotiations across the political–public service interface on a rolling basis in order to promote the cause of democratic governance. It also invites others to take up this perspective and develop research to probe these ideas further.

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