ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses two major questions empirically: how do the local elected politicians and appointed official bureaucrats differ from each other? And what factors determine the relationships between them? Accordingly, in the theoretical part of the book, a possible hypothetical answer to these questions is explored, providing the theoretical argument that there is a substantial level of genetic difference between local elected politicians and official bureaucrats, considering some systemic/organizational – as well as contextual – factors which influence the relationships between local elected politicians and bureaucrats. Thus, the purpose of the chapter is to explore how these variables work, and which variable constructs the foundation of the relationship more explicitly between politics and bureaucracy from an empirical perspective in the context of Bangladesh. This chapter identifies some important variables which underpin the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats, and examines the influence of these variables to detect the prototype of relations between elected politicians and bureaucrats.
