INTERFACING POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION IN CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACIES

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1. Introduction
2. The Context of Contemporary Democracies like Bangladesh
3. Conceptual Framework
4. The Role of Administrators and Politicians in Public Policy
Making
5. Interfacing Politics and Administration
6. Issues in Consolidation of the Democratization Process
7. Conclusion

INTERFACING POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION IN CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACIES

Author: Md. Mizanur Rahman

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2001v22n2a2

ABSTRACT

Politics is the process of achieving public good and administration is an essential instrument of political structure for formulating and executing the policies, plans and programmes. Relationship between the politicians and the administrators is so intricately enmeshed that the distinclive functions of both parties may evolve only through a painful but sustained democratic process. The journey of democratic process is still in a nascent state in Bangladesh. Political control over administrative machinery of the state can be maximized by improving the quality of the inputs from the political system including the politicians, political culture, standard norms and values. For improving the functioning of representative political institutions, free and fair electoral processes within a pluralist political system, a free but responsible press and better access on the part of the common people to information are exigent. A vibrant civil society is also a sifle qua non to democratic process in which a healthy relationship between politics and administration may thrive

BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

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