Podger, Andrew and Kettl, Donald F.

How much damage can a politicized public service do? Lessons from Australia - Public Administration Review - 84(1), Jan-Feb, 2024: p.160-172

Many public administrators are struggling with the relationship between themselves—most of whom are career civil servants—on the one hand, and those political officials who are elected or appointed on the other, and with whom they must deal every day. That struggle has even spilled over into the debate in the US and elsewhere over the existence and influence of a so-called “deep state” bureaucracy that according to some, really runs our governments.- Reproduced

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