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ere are actually several opinions on this topic that share the Discretionary
Tradition’s legitimacy logic. e rst simply ignores the dichotomy, wishing expert
administrators to have greater inuence on policy making, even if it remains sym-
bolically decided by politicians (Simon 1976). In other words, once politics is
“correctly” removed from administration, public and private administration are
not dierent in any meaningful way, and private practices can be used to make
public administration more eective and ecient (Allison 1979). Others seek a del-
egation of ...