A POLITIKA ÉS A KÖZIGAZGATÁS VISZONYA
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Summary/Abstract: Politico-administrative relations constitute a country-specific dichotomy. The role, functions and positions of the actors of this relation may be examined only within the specific conditions of the given countries. Although a comprehensive theory for the analysis has not been formulated yet, we may use practical, descriptive models in order to introduce the main types of the politico-administrative relations. In this paper, the metaphoric “village model”, suggested by B. Guy Peters is used for the better understanding of the politico-administrative relations. As addition to the political family village, the administrative village and the functional village, also the model of the “open village” by Theo J. Toonen gives a chance to integrate the latest politico-administrative developments into the model. The political neutrality of public administration is discussed as a myth never realized. But impartiality as a core value is playing more and more important role in the operation of the heavily politicized public administrations. There are three main reasons of the increasing politicization of public administration. First one is politicization as participation in the political decision making, the second is politicization as partisan control over the bureaucracy, and the third is politicization as political involvement of the civil servants. The paper concludes with a list of the specifications of the Neo-Weberian model of public administration as formulated by Gert Bouckaert.

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