01423nam a22001577a 4500 517390 517390 210712b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Brorström, Sara and Norbäck, Maria 26598 ‘Keeping politicians at arm’s length’: How managers in a collaborative organization deal with the administration–politics interface International Review of Administrative Sciences 86(4), Dec, 2020: p.657-672 This study examines the relationship between politicians and managers in a Swedish city. The context is a collaborative organization responsible for drafting and implementing the vision and strategies for a city organization, and for future development of the downtown river area. The article examines the efforts of city managers to manage the relationship with city politicians. We illustrate how the managers strive to manage an appropriate ‘arm’s-length’ relationship with the politicians by navigating in and out of the ‘purple zone’ of the politics–management interface, and how the context of collaborative organizations seems to increase the amount of time public managers spend in this zone. – Reproduced Collaborative organizations, Politics–administration dichotomy, Public managers, Purple zone 25064 International Review of Administrative Sciences POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 391456 IIPA IIPA 2021-07-12 86(4), Dec, 2020: p.657-672 AR124729 2021-07-12 AR