Public Administration in Contested Societies

1. Representative Bureaucracy in Plural Societies
Karl O’Connor

2. Researching in Contested Cities: Belfast and Brussels
Karl O’Connor

3. Belfast: Everyday Policy-making in a Contested Environment
Karl O’Connor

4. Brussels: Power-sharing at the Lowest Common Denominator
Karl O’Connor

5. The Merit Principle in a Representative Bureaucracy: Belfast
Karl O’Connor

6. Active Representation Within the Power-sharing Society: The Values Guiding Administrative Decision-making in Belfast and Brussels
Karl O’Connor

7. Concluding Remarks: Bureaucrats and Conflict Management
Karl O’Connor

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Public Policy, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Public Administration, Social Policy