Government Ethical Problems: Political Neutrality of Bureaucracy in Local Election

DOI

10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

political neutrality; bureaucracy; dichotomy politics and administration; abuse of power.

Abstract

There are several interesting research results found. Firstly, since incumbent head of regency (called Bupati) takes part in the local election, it is inevitable that bureaucracy is used by the incumbent Bupati to win the election; Secondly, bureaucracy is on the position that it can not refuse to the Bupati commands in related to the winning team of the incumbent candidates. Thirdly, there are strong evidences that bureaucrats also take advantage by getting involved in political struggle for power in the local election. The bureaucrats are hoping to be promoted because of supporting the Bupati in the prior local election process. Fourthly, there are many administration "abuse of powers" imposed by Bupati prior to the local election process. Finally, it is found that in practice there are no strong power to stop this Bupati ultimate power since the Bupati holds strong and highest political influence in the local level. Interestingly, among these research results, there is "mutual" political cooperation between the Bupati (as political person) and the bureaucrats (as administration person) in struggling for power. Several policy options are provided to solve the problem of politicking of bureaucracy.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Teguh Yuwono
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - Government Ethical Problems: Political Neutrality of Bureaucracy in Local Election
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Ethics in Governance (ICONEG 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 339
EP  - 343
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iconeg-16.2017.75
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