Politics and Administration in Germany

Abstract Although German bureaucracy is typically categorised as Weberian, a clear distinction between politics and administration has never been defining characteristic of the political-administrative system. Many close interrelations interactions elected politicians appointed civil servants can be observed at all levels administration. Higher-ranking in Germany are used to generally appreciate functional politicisation their jobs, that involvement stages policy process, from formation, goal definition, negotiation within outside government implementation evaluation policies. For top positions, therefore, class ‘political servants’ special feature system, obtaining craft’ become an important part learning job experience higher-ranking servants.