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This 10 page paper examines the politics/ administration dichotomy--the thinking that the people who make the policy and those who carry it out are entirely separate from one another, and that this separation is both desirable and necessary—and applies it to the current war in Iraq. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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one another, and that this separation is both desirable and necessary. This paper examines this assertion in detail and applies it to the current war in Iraq. The Politics/Administration Dichotomy
- Myth or Reality? The idea of a split between those who make policies and those who enforce them apparently became current in the first half of the 20th century,
backed mostly by those who were "hostile to the traditional tripartite theory of the separation of powers" (Vile, 2004). Vile states flatly that the "politics-administration dichotomy does not work, because
it is founded on an inadequate functional analysis" (Vile, 2004). However, he believes that some of the ideas developed by those who believe in the dichotomy are sound, and could
be used to "illuminate the possibilities of an administrative machine which would be relatively free of constant political interference but subject to external controls" (Vile, 2004). Part of the problem
with this dichotomy is that it is unrealistic when it tries to draw a difference between "constitutions" and "social forces" (Vile, 2004). Vile takes the Congress as his example: "is
it constitution or is it social forces?" (Vile, 2004). Simply asking the question reveals how silly it is; Congress is neither, but involves both (Vile, 2004). He maintains that the
problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It cannot be done, and results in the false dichotomy of politics/administration
(Vile, 2004). At their most extreme, the policy-administration dichotomy theorists "suggest that the civil servant merely exercises a technical skill which is directed towards the execution of rules laid down
for him by the political branches of the government. Thus they think in terms of an administrative function" (Vile, 2004). But this is not in truth the way things are
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