01190pab a2200169 454500 180718b xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Aberbach, Joel D. Bureaucrats and politicians: a report on the administrative elites project This article is a review of research conducted by Joel D. Aberbach, Bert A. Rockman and their colleagues on the backgrounds, roles, responsibilities and relationships between high-level bureaucrats and politicians in several Western democracies. Bureaucrats and politicians each consider themselves policy-makers but tend to approach policy-making in characteristically different ways. Bureaucrats are the more stable and conserving elite, they tent to maintain equilibrium in the policy environment. Politicians are more risk-taking, they tend to inject energy and initiative into the policy process. Distinctions between bureaucrats and politicians are less clear in the United States, where data collected in the Leadership Elites Bureaucracy Bert A., Rockman Daniel B., Mezger Australian Journal of Public Administrataion 21905 21905 21905 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Issue no: 50(2), Jun.91, p.203-17 AR21974 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR