<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE Zthes SYSTEM "http://zthes.z3950.org/schema/zthes-1.0.dtd">  <Zthes><term><termId>176</termId><termName>Bureaucratic agent</termName><termType>TT</termType><termLanguage>en-EN</termLanguage><termVocabulary>D4RUNOFF</termVocabulary>	<termStatus>active</termStatus>	<termApproval>approved</termApproval>	<termSortkey>Bureaucratic agent</termSortkey><termNote label="Source"><![CDATA[ <p>D. Carpenter and G. A. Krause, “Transactional Authority and Bureaucratic Politics,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 5–25, Jan. 2015, doi: 10.1093/jopart/muu012. </p> ]]></termNote><termNote label="Definition"><![CDATA[ <p>Formal authority in bureaucratic politics defines the official limits or parameters that both shape and constrain the action of the principal and agent, respectively. The nature of authority in political–agency relations has broader normative implications for bureaucratic accountability in a representative democracy. </p> ]]></termNote><termNote label="Definition"><![CDATA[ <p>Formal authority in bureaucratic politics defines the official limits or parameters that both shape and constrain the action of the principal and agent, respectively. The nature of authority in political–agency relations has broader normative implications for bureaucratic accountability in a representative democracy. </p> ]]></termNote><termCreatedDate>Bureaucratic agent</termCreatedDate><relation><relationType>RT</relationType><termId>162</termId><termName>Formal authority</termName><termType>PT</termType></relation><relation><relationType>RT</relationType><termId>184</termId><termName>Policy implementation</termName><termType>PT</termType></relation></term>  </Zthes>