Theories of bureaucratic politics seek to explain the policy making role of administration and bureaucracy. Such frameworks typically reject the politics-administration dichotomy underpinning theories of bureaucratic control, viewing this division as an analytical convenience that imposes too steep a cost on theoretical development. Specifically, the price of making theory more tractable by separating administration from politics Is held to be a willful ignorance of the central role of bureaucracy within the polity’s power structure.