What is the "agency point of view"? Why is it important?

What will be an ideal response?


Bureaucrats look to their agency's interests, a perspective that is called the agency point of view. This point of view develops through long careers serving a particular agency; professionalism can also encourage the agency point of view. If agencies are to operate in the fragmented American political system, they must fight for the power they require to conduct their programs effectively. In other words, they must play politics. They must devote themselves to building enough support to permit the effective administration of their programs. If they do not, their goals will suffer because other agencies that are willing to play politics will grab the available funding, attention, and support.

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