What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy

In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes units within central government ministries. We expect that regarding policy position a will cause in names ministerial units. To end formulate hypotheses combining politics structural choice and theories portfolio allocation to at cabinet level intra-ministerial constructed dataset containing more than 17,000 observations between 1980 2013 from governments Germany, Netherlands, France. regress series generalized estimating equations (GEE) with population averaging models for binary outcomes. Finding variations across three political-bureaucratic systems, overall report positive governmental ideological positions