Here they write that administrators in the Old Public Administration, although reluctantly, significantly influenced public policy albeit through a vail of neutrality (Denhardt et al, 2015, p 92). This vail of neutrality was the Orthodox Administration’s method of maintaining the illusion of dichotomy. However, the mere presence of administrators in the policy making process rendered the idea of dichotomy obsolete. Donald F. Kettle in his book The Transformation of Governance talks about how the Institutional-Choice approach, devised in the new pubic management, eliminated the dichotomy by placing the bureaucracy at the core of the political environment (Kettle, 2015, p 102). This approach replaces the traditional view of bureaucracy as an independent variable with a new view of bureaucracy as a dependent variable (Kettle, 2015, p 102). No longer did the administrator have to work under a vail of neutrality. They were now worked as an “agent of political forces” (Kettle, 2015, p
Here they write that administrators in the Old Public Administration, although reluctantly, significantly influenced public policy albeit through a vail of neutrality (Denhardt et al, 2015, p 92). This vail of neutrality was the Orthodox Administration’s method of maintaining the illusion of dichotomy. However, the mere presence of administrators in the policy making process rendered the idea of dichotomy obsolete. Donald F. Kettle in his book The Transformation of Governance talks about how the Institutional-Choice approach, devised in the new pubic management, eliminated the dichotomy by placing the bureaucracy at the core of the political environment (Kettle, 2015, p 102). This approach replaces the traditional view of bureaucracy as an independent variable with a new view of bureaucracy as a dependent variable (Kettle, 2015, p 102). No longer did the administrator have to work under a vail of neutrality. They were now worked as an “agent of political forces” (Kettle, 2015, p