The politics of the politics-administration dichotomy

Sager, Fritz; Rosser, Christian (2022). The politics of the politics-administration dichotomy. In: Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration (pp. 24-37). Edward Elgar Publishing 10.4337/9781839109447.00009

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The politics-administration dichotomy is an identity-establishing concept of Public Administration. This chapter highlights the origins of this dichotomy in the history of ideas as well as its different epistemological meanings in normative, empirical, and analytical terms. Cursory examples from the literature will serve to underpin our discussion, illustrating how Public Administration actually developed around the appreciation and criticism of the politics-administration dichotomy. The chapter's central finding is that the normative and empirical dimensions of this dichotomy cannot be sustained, whereas its analytical dimension can (and should) be pursued to study the administration as an actor in our complex contemporary political system.

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