The Relationship Between Administrative and Political Action: Dichotomy or Beyond Dichotomy

For a long time, political officials, who also had administrative discretions, tried to escape accountability by making their administrative decisions look political. Therefore, in the last century, the relationship between administrative and political actions as "administration-politics dichotomy" or "administration-policy dichotomy" was attract attention of scholars in this field. In this article, efforts have been made to clarify the relationship between political and administrative actions and the concept of dichotomy, and we found that the meaning of dichotomy has shifted from differentiation and conflict to interaction and compatibility between them; Therefore, the aforementioned dichotomy is no longer seeking substantive or organizational separation of these two actions, but has gone beyond this concept and made the conflict interwoven with interaction. In this way, the decision of an administrative political official can be both political and administrative at the same time, and the complementary dichotomy of svara shows the relationship between these two concepts well. For the purpose of the article and in order to provide a solution to create relative separation, three practical ways are suggested: first, paying attention to the dominance of administrative or political function, second, paying attention to the motivation and purpose and third, identifying dichotomy as a constitutional principle that end the argument.