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Commission Civil Servants and Politics: De-Politicised Bureaucrats in an Increasingly Political Organisation

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Max Weber was the first to systematically theorise about the nexus between the political and administrative sphere of public bureaucracies. He predicted that bureaucratisation would remain a defining feature of our societies - as long as industrial transformation and division of labour progressed. However, Max Weber and the twentieth-century public administration theorists following him focused exclusively on administrative developments within nation states.

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  1. Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

    Christine Neuhold (Associate Professor of European Governance) & Sophie Vanhoonacker (Professor of Administrative Governance) (Associate Professor of European Governance) &  (Professor of Administrative Governance)

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    Luc Verhey (Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law) (Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law)

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Bauer, M.W., Ege, J. (2013). Commission Civil Servants and Politics: De-Politicised Bureaucrats in an Increasingly Political Organisation. In: Neuhold, C., Vanhoonacker, S., Verhey, L. (eds) Civil Servants and Politics. Public Sector Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137316813_10

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