Are civil servants really public servants? a study of bureaucratic attitudes in the U.S., Brazil and Korea
- 16(3) Mar 1993, p.409-42
The proper role of civil servants in the development of public policy has been the subject of continuous commentary and debate. In the advanced industrial democracies the operation of increasingly complex programs in government has led many commentators to warn of the danger of "technocracy" - a condition wherein professional career administrators more fully control the direction of public policy than do elected representatives of the people. Likewise, in less developed nations there men, those who hold more materialist value orientations and those holding managereal occupations. - Reproduced.