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The Transhistorical Tension between Bureaucratic Autonomy and Political Control. / Andersen, David Delfs Erbo; Møller, Jørgen.
In: Political Studies Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2019, p. 284-295 .Research output: Contribution to journal/Conference contribution in journal/Contribution to newspaper › Review › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Transhistorical Tension between Bureaucratic Autonomy and Political Control
AU - Andersen, David Delfs Erbo
AU - Møller, Jørgen
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Political decision-makers operate under a constant tension between bureaucratic autonomy on one hand and political control on the other. Extant scholarship rarely analyzes this tension beyond the context of modern states. However, three recent books show that it has a transhistorical relevance. Francis Fukuyama’s two volumes on The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay analyze the various ways the tension has been addressed in the period before and after the French Revolution. In Democracy’s Slaves, Paulin Ismard documents that the tension was relevant even in the context of the direct democracy of Athens in the Classical period. Taking these three books as the point of departure, we show how politicians have attempted to balance autonomy and control in patrimonial, meritocratic, politicized, and neo-patrimonial types of administration. Fukuyama F (2012) The Origins of Political Order, vol. 1. London: Profile Books. Fukuyama F (2014) Political Order and Political Decay, vol. 2. London: Profile Books. Ismard P (2017) Democracy’s Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
AB - Political decision-makers operate under a constant tension between bureaucratic autonomy on one hand and political control on the other. Extant scholarship rarely analyzes this tension beyond the context of modern states. However, three recent books show that it has a transhistorical relevance. Francis Fukuyama’s two volumes on The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay analyze the various ways the tension has been addressed in the period before and after the French Revolution. In Democracy’s Slaves, Paulin Ismard documents that the tension was relevant even in the context of the direct democracy of Athens in the Classical period. Taking these three books as the point of departure, we show how politicians have attempted to balance autonomy and control in patrimonial, meritocratic, politicized, and neo-patrimonial types of administration. Fukuyama F (2012) The Origins of Political Order, vol. 1. London: Profile Books. Fukuyama F (2014) Political Order and Political Decay, vol. 2. London: Profile Books. Ismard P (2017) Democracy’s Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
KW - Athenian democracy
KW - administrative types
KW - bureaucratic autonomy
KW - historical perspective
KW - political control
U2 - 10.1177/1478929918798495
DO - 10.1177/1478929918798495
M3 - Review
VL - 17
SP - 284
EP - 295
JO - Political Studies Review
JF - Political Studies Review
SN - 1478-9299
IS - 3
ER -