Seeks to advance the comparative study of executive politics; this includes chief executives and cabinets, the permanent bureaucracy and appointed officials, and the relations between them. SOG is also interested in the development, adoption and implementation of policies, and in the co-ordination and control of decision making.
- Executive Politics at the Top: The Politics-Administration Interface
Chair: Prof. Patrik Marier - From Democratic Backsliding to Administrative Backsliding: Institutional Change, Bureaucratic Resistance, and Personalist Rule
Chair: Prof. Caner Bakir - Governing Through Advice: Executive Power, Policy Advisory Systems, and Public Administration
Chair: Prof. Caner Bakir - Holding Public Authorities to Account: Control and Accountability in the Public Sector
Chair: Prof. Eckhard Schroeter - Organizational Reputation as an Organizing Force: Structures, Networks, and Communication in Government
Chair: Prof. Sicheng Chen - Policy Entrepreneurship and Institutional Work in Government: Explaining Policy and Administrative Change
Chair: Prof. Caner Bakir - Public Trust in Populist Times
Chair: Prof. Anat Gofen - Street-level Bureaucracy in Times of Democratic Backsliding
Chair: Dr. Gabriela Lotta






