Since bureaucracies and bureaucrats routinely engage in political behavior, the
need to account theoretically for the bureaucracy’s political role is justified. Politics
is generically defined as the authoritative allocation of values, or the process of
deciding “who gets what, when and how” (Easton ; Lasswell ). Numerous
studies confirm that bureaucracies and bureaucrats routinely allocate values
and decide who gets what, that bureaucracies logically engage in “politics of the
first order” (Meier , ). Theories of bureaucratic politics therefore begin by
accepting what has long been empirically observed; that is, in practice, administration
is not a technical and value-neutral activity separable from politics. Administration
is politics (Waldo ).
Since bureaucracies and bureaucrats routinely engage in political behavior, the
need to account theoretically for the bureaucracy’s political role is justified. Politics
is generically defined as the authoritative allocation of values, or the process of
deciding “who gets what, when and how” (Easton ; Lasswell ). Numerous
studies confirm that bureaucracies and bureaucrats routinely allocate values
and decide who gets what, that bureaucracies logically engage in “politics of the
first order” (Meier , ). Theories of bureaucratic politics therefore begin by
accepting what has long been empirically observed; that is, in practice, administration
is not a technical and value-neutral activity separable from politics. Administration
is politics (Waldo ).
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