A SCOPING REVIEW: UNDERSTANDING THE POLITICISATION OF SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS (SCSS) TURNOVER IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Abstract

Senior civil servants (SCSs) are high-level bureaucrats who navigate the intertwining bureaucracy and political stakeholders that shape the political-administrative relationship. One of the recent challenges is a strong indication of "democratic backsliding," which creates a new point of equilibrium between the political and administrative constellations. The complexity and dynamic arrangement in developed nations may provide valuable insights and promising avenues for exploring the politicization of SCSs in developing countries, particularly in Indonesia.  The study will examine the politicization of SCSs turnover within elite administrations in developed countries. A scoping review uncovered ten articles with empirical findings that indicate the political-administrative relationships among developed nations from macro, meso, and micro perspectives. The politicization of SCS turnover has been the subject of scrutiny and debate, with various factors such as actors, institutions, procedures, networks, and path dependency being examined in relation to different sources, forms, times, intentions, and locations.