Title: Bureaucratic Elite, Political Culture and Democratization in Brazil
Abstract: Technical bureaucratic neutrality and interest-based party politics have long constituted key issues in political philosophy and political theory. Whenever we emphasize one of these elements, either implicitly or explicitly, we necessarily affect the other insofar as they are intimately linked. Indeed, from a broader perspective, any political culture - that is, any set of values and notions related to the political sphere - will display some sort of normative frame that relates bureaucracies and politics. Thus, for example, while liberal democratic thought posits a normative balance between these two elements, state corporatism argues for the technical and moral superiority of bureaucratic decision-making over party-based politics. In the communist model, the idea is to merge bureaucracy and the ruling party, therefore making any distinction between politics and administration superfluous.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'doaj']
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