THE Politics-Administration and Public Policy: Some Explanations for Public Administration Community

Abstract

The quality of the policy making, the consisitency between policy intent and the impact of policies when implemented, and the effectiveness, equality, and efficiency of the administrative process can can all be affected by the nature of the interation and relative influence politicians and administration. politics and administration should be thought of as different elements of the same process of formulating and implementing public policy. it is therefore, against this background that this paper investigates the relatiosnhip between politicians and public administratrators in policy making. this is because policy formulators shoould work together with policy implementers because non-cooperation of the two will only lead to the success of policy in writing but failure in practice. this paper is conceptual in nature and that it derives its contribution and argument from the existing lirature. This paper, inter alia, recommends that it is vital for politicians and administrators to complement each other than to have them separated