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Political science tends to look at a democratic government in terms of a distinct division of power between the executive, the legislature and the judiciary branches. The legislature makes laws, the executive implements the laws, and the judiciary ensures that the laws are implemented and obeyed.
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Carpenter, S. (2003). The Bureaucracy: Origins of Power. In: Special Corporations and the Bureaucracy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508781_3
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