Abstract

This essay elaborates how the analysis of administrative careers – both as dependent and independent variables – can be leveraged to gain a more systematic understanding of the relationship between politics and administration. It highlights how the analysis of administrative careers can provide answers to pertinent questions about the relationship between politics and administration, including civil service politicization, politicians’ motivations in patronage decisions, the interplay of organizational characteristics and top officials’ careers, and performance effects of administrative careers. It also includes suggestions on how to move forward in terms of research methods and how the systematic analysis of administrative careers can strengthen the comparative analysis of the relationship between politics and administration.

中文翻译：

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高层官员的职业以及政治与行政之间的关系

摘要

本文阐述了如何利用行政职业的分析（包括因变量和自变量）来获得对政治与行政之间关系的更系统的理解。它着重介绍了对行政职业的分析如何为有关政治与行政之间关系的相关问题提供答案，包括公务员政治化，政客的光顾决策动机，组织特征与高层官员职业之间的相互作用以及行政绩效职业。它还包括有关如何在研究方法上取得进步以及对行政职业进行系统分析如何加强对政治与行政之间关系的比较分析的建议。