TY - BOOK ID - 792850 TI - Bureaucrats and politicians in Western democracies AU - Aberbach, Joel D. AU - Putnam, Robert D. AU - Rockman, Bert A. AU - Anton, Thomas J. AU - Eldersveld, Samuel J. AU - Inglehart, Ronald PY - 1981 SN - 0674086252 0674086279 9780674086258 9780674086272 PB - Cambridge (Mass.) Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of organization KW - Political systems KW - Political sociology KW - Politicians. KW - Comparative government. KW - Civil service. KW - Hommes politiques KW - Institutions politiques comparées KW - Fonction publique KW - Government executives KW - Politicians KW - Institutions politiques comparées KW - #SBIB:004.IO KW - #SBIB:324H20 KW - #SBIB:324H41 KW - #SBIB:324H45 KW - Statesmen KW - Executives KW - Public officers KW - Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) KW - Politieke structuren: elite KW - Politieke sociologie: stratificatie en machtshiërarchie KW - Government executives - Europe KW - Government executives - United States KW - Politicians - Europe KW - Politicians - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:792850 AB - In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In seven countries--the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the Netherlands--researchers questioned 700 bureaucrats and 6OO politicians in an effort to understand how their aims, attitudes, and ambitions differ within cultural settings. One of the authors' most significant findings is that the worlds of these two elites overlap much more in the United States than in Europe. But throughout the West bureaucrats and politicians each wear special blinders and each have special virtues. In a well-ordered polity, the authors conclude, politicians articulate society's dreams and bureaucrats bring them gingerly to earth ER -