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100			_aO'Connor, Karl
245			_aWhat are the ideas and motivations of bureaucrats within a religiously contested society?
260			_c2017
300			_ap.63-84.
362			_aMar
520			_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exists, do primary associations such as religious, gender or racial identity guide behaviour or are these associations superseded by secondary learned professional or technocratic attachments?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.
650			_aPublic administration
650			_aMotivation
650			_aCivil service
773			_aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences
909			_a114278
999			_c114272 _d114272