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(Wamsley, Goodsell, et al. 1990, 42). More recently, it has been argued that there
is yet value to the mutual noninterference and subordination of administration
to political representatives ensured by the constitutional doctrine of the politics/
administration dichotomy (Overeem 2006).
In sum, the Constitutional Tradition honors the diering roles of politics and
administration within government, suggesting that the dening dierence is the
making of policy versus its implementation, although the line of demarcation is
not always clear (Barzelay and Armajani 1992; Blau and Meyer 1999; Finer 1935;
Goodnow 1900; Gulick 1937b; White 1926; Willoughby 1927; Wilson 1887