Relationship Between Bureaucracy and Politics According to Management Styles
Chapter from the book: Kaya, R. (ed.) 2025. Bureaucracy and Politics: Academic Research from The Perspective of Theories and Ideologies.

Gamze Kara Çetinkaya
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

Synopsis

In this study, descriptive analysis method, which is one of the qualitative analysis methods, was used. The research focuses on the relationship between bureaucracy and politics according to government styles. The aim of this research is to comparatively analyze the relationship between bureaucracy and politics through government styles. It is known that government styles express all the principles that guide the administration of the state in order to achieve certain goals. In this context, it is possible to talk about government styles with different characteristics in different parts of the world and in different periods. The existence of dozens of different government styles in the literature shows that there is a development and change in government types. It is understood that mankind continues to try and search until he finds the best government style. There are different opinions about which is the best government style. The place and position of bureaucracy in government activities is also one of the debated issues. In this study, government styles will be tried to be explained by limiting them specifically with Plato. According to the results of the research, there are six different government styles according to Plato. When the bureaucracy-politics relationship of these government styles is evaluated, while the characteristics of some government types and the characteristics of bureaucracy overlap; It has been concluded that some types of management are fundamentally different from bureaucracy.

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Kara Çetinkaya, G. (2025). Relationship Between Bureaucracy and Politics According to Management Styles. In: Kaya, R. (ed.), Bureaucracy and Politics: Academic Research from The Perspective of Theories and Ideologies. Özgür Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58830/ozgur.pub674.c2813

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March 25, 2025

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