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Climbing the Velvet Drainpipe Class background and career progression within the UK Civil Service
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory ( IF 6.160 ) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 , DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muac045
Sam Friedman 1
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While the theory of representative bureaucracy originates from concerns about the class composition of the public sector workforce, questions of class background have been notably absent in subsequent scholarship. In this paper I take advantage of new data on the class backgrounds of UK civil servants (N= 308, 566) to, first, explore descriptively how class shapes the composition of the civil service, both vertically in terms of occupational grade and horizontally in terms of department, location and profession. I show that those from working-class backgrounds are not only under-represented in the Civil Service as a whole, but this skew is particularly acute in propulsive departments like the Treasury, locations like London and in the Senior Civil Service. This initial descriptive analysis then acts as the staging point for the central qualitative component of my analysis, drawing on 104 in-depth interviews across four case-study departments. Here I identify three unwritten rules of career progression that tend to act as barriers for those from working-class backgrounds; access to accelerator jobs, organisational ambiguity in promotion processes; and sorting into operational (versus policy) tracks that have progression bottlenecks. This analysis highlights the need for more work on class representation, as well as underlining how representative bureaucracy may be impeded by patterns of horizontal as well as vertical segregation, particularly in work areas that have an outsized influence on policy design.

中文翻译:

在英国公务员系统中攀登天鹅绒排水管班的背景和职业发展

虽然代议制官僚制理论源于对公共部门劳动力阶级构成的关注,但阶级背景问题在随后的学术研究中明显缺失。在本文中,我利用有关英国公务员阶级背景的新数据(N= 308, 566),首先描述性地探讨阶级如何塑造公务员的构成,无论是在职业等级方面,还是在横向方面部门、地点和专业的条款。我表明,来自工人阶级背景的人不仅在整个公务员系统中的代表性不足,而且这种偏差在财政部等推进部门、伦敦等地和高级公务员系统中尤为严重。然后,这个初步的描述性分析作为我分析的中心定性部分的分阶段点,借鉴了四个案例研究部门的 104 次深入访谈。在这里,我确定了三个不成文的职业发展规则,它们往往会成为来自工人阶级背景的人的障碍;获得加速器工作,晋升过程中的组织模糊性;并分类到具有进展瓶颈的运营(相对于政策)轨道。该分析强调需要在阶级代表方面开展更多工作,并强调代表性官僚机构可能如何受到横向和纵向隔离模式的阻碍,特别是在对政策设计有巨大影响的工作领域。在这里,我确定了三个不成文的职业发展规则,它们往往会成为来自工人阶级背景的人的障碍;获得加速器工作,晋升过程中的组织模糊性;并分类到具有进展瓶颈的运营(相对于政策)轨道。该分析强调需要在阶级代表方面开展更多工作,并强调代表性官僚机构可能如何受到横向和纵向隔离模式的阻碍,特别是在对政策设计有巨大影响的工作领域。在这里,我确定了三个不成文的职业发展规则,它们往往会成为来自工人阶级背景的人的障碍;获得加速器工作,晋升过程中的组织模糊性;并分类到具有进展瓶颈的运营(相对于政策)轨道。该分析强调需要在阶级代表方面开展更多工作,并强调代表性官僚机构可能如何受到横向和纵向隔离模式的阻碍,特别是在对政策设计有巨大影响的工作领域。并分类到具有进展瓶颈的运营(相对于政策)轨道。该分析强调需要在阶级代表方面开展更多工作,并强调代表性官僚机构可能如何受到横向和纵向隔离模式的阻碍,特别是在对政策设计有巨大影响的工作领域。并分类到具有进展瓶颈的运营(相对于政策)轨道。该分析强调需要在阶级代表方面开展更多工作,并强调代表性官僚机构可能如何受到横向和纵向隔离模式的阻碍,特别是在对政策设计有巨大影响的工作领域。
更新日期:2022-10-14
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