28 ◾ Logics of Legitimacy
of powers. It is also moderately robust in its organizing capacity in regard to func-
tional dierences within the practice of public administration. However, from the
perspective of the legitimacy question, the Political approach imagines only one
type of politics, not recognizing the philosophical dierences between representa-
tive and direct democracy. Nor does it question the functional dierences between
elected ocials and appointed experts in those political processes. Perhaps most
problematic is that it does not consider the implications of administration func-
tioning like branches that are meant to oversee the executive function. In this sense,
it lacks coherency because administrators are asked to act