01625pab a2200193 454500008004000000100002000040245009400060260000900154300001300163362000800176520100100184650002601185650001501211650001801226773005201244909001101296999001901307952010501326180718b2017   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aO'Connor, Karl   aWhat are the ideas and motivations of bureaucrats within a religiously contested society?  c2017  ap.63-84.  aMar  aThis article reports research on bureaucrat behaviour. Where discretion exists, do primary associations such as religious, gender or racial identity guide behaviour or are these associations superseded by secondary learned professional or technocratic attachments? Using the theoretical lens of representative bureaucracy and Q methodology to investigate bureaucrat role perceptions, two distinct bureaucrat typologies are identified in Belfast. The evidence demonstrates that an elite-level bureaucrat may actively represent his or her own professional interests or, alternatively, may seek out and actively represent the interests of the political elite as a collective. The findings have implications for representative bureaucracy research as it is demonstrated that an elite-level bureaucrat may actively represent something other than a primary identity. This contribution also provides a useful insight into everyday life within a bureau of a successful power-sharing system of governance.  aPublic administration  aMotivation  aCivil service  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences  a114278  c114272d114272  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 83, Issue no: 1pAR114738r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR