This book addresses a perennial question - are politics and administration related ? In spite of an entrenched tradition in policy and administrative studies that depicts politics and administration as independent phenomena, Martin Fortis argues in favour of an integrative approach that brings politics and administration together. In his innovative and original study, he challenges dominant accounts that have persistently attempted to de-politicize (public) administration. Borrowing from recent developments in contemporary political theory, particularly the agonistic framework developed by...