Accordingly, theories of bureaucratic politics seek to breach the orthodox divide between administration and politics and attempt to drag the former into a systematic accounting with the latter. That traditional theoretical frameworks account poorly for bureaucracy’s obvious and repeatedly observed political role has long been recognized. Even scholars traditionally credited with describing and supporting the politics-administration divide were well aware of the political role the bureaucracy plays, and the rigidity of the division accepted as their legacy has been described as a caricature of their arguments. Woodrow Wilson and Frank Goodnow, who both wrote at a time when public bureaucracies were ripe with patronage, incompetence, and even outright corruption, were well aware that politics and administration represented a synthesis rather than two neatly separable portions of the public policy enterprise (Lynn 2001). Other prominent public administration scholars argued during the first half of the twentieth century that administrative theory had to account for politics, both in recognition of bureaucracy’s real-world role and as a necessary element to building better explanatory frameworks within the discipline.