Tjänstemän, politiker och den lila zonen En uppsats om interaktionen mellan politiker och tjänstemän och tjänstemännens roll i beslutsfattande inom Lunds kommun i fallet Spårväg Lund C – ESS.

Sammanfattning: Administrators’ roles in politics have been debated during a long time and is constantly changing. The aim of this thesis is to examine politicians and administrators view on the interaction between them and their view on administrators’ possibility to influence decision making in the case tramway Lund C – ESS, thus to examine how politicians and administrators look upon how the actors interact and administrators’ power over decision making. I have interviewed politicians and administrators, focusing on the interaction between them and how it affects the final product and administrators’ role in decision making and how they hold power over decision making. The answers have been compared to Lukes theory of power, two theories on the interaction between politicians and administrators together with a theory focusing on a purple zone between politicians and administrators which allows them to work closer to one another. In summary, politicians and administrators consider that there exists an area where they can interact, which is favourable for the final product, and that administrators influence decision making up to a certain point.