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Alford, John; Hartley, Jean; Yates, Sophie and Hughes, Owen
(2017).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0275074016638481
Abstract
We add new data to the long-standing debate about the interface between politics and administration, deploying theory and evidence indicating that it varies. It can be either a “purple zone” of interaction between the red of politics and the blue of administration, or a clear line. We use survey responses from 1,012 mostly senior public managers in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, along with semi-structured interviews with 42 of them, to examine the extent to which public managers perceive that they “cross” the line or go into a zone, and the ways in which they do so. Our inclusion of a zone as well as a line recasts how roles and relationships between politicians and administrators can be conceived. Moreover, it raises questions about how particular contingencies affect whether public managers perceive and work with a line or a zone.
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- Item ORO ID
- 45891
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1552-3357
- Keywords
- politics/administration dichotomy; political management; political astuteness; political skills
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Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business > Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) - Research Group
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Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL)
Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD) - Copyright Holders
- © 2016 The Authors
- Depositing User
- Jean Hartley