This article discusses one of the most important institutions in the modern world, namely
public bureaucracies, from a comparative perspective. Bureaucratic organizations can be …

Temporary leaders in federal agencies—commonly known as “actings”—are a fixture of the
modern administrative state. These acting officials have recently come under fire, particularly …

We combine personnel records of the United States federal bureaucracy from 1997 to 2019
with administrative voter registration data to study how ideological alignment between …

For over a century, the value of employee protections and limits on direct political control has
been the sine qua non of a merit‐based bureaucracy for the US public service. Such …

A defining feature of public sector employment in the United States is the regular change in
elected leadership. We describe how these changes alter policy and disrupt civil servants' …

A ascensão de lideranças autoritárias de extrema direita nas democracias contemporâneas
catalisou processos de retrocesso democrático com profundas e diversas implicações …

Three phenomena that undermine the US administrative state were taken to extremes under
President Trump, contributing to democratic backsliding. The first is delegitimization: a …

Federal civil servants need policy expertise to formulate and implement public policy.
Presidents and congresses do not confer such expertise when they delegate responsibility …

As nomeações públicas despertam o interesse de pesquisadores e gestores públicos já há
bastante tempo, se tornando um campo importante para a compreensão das relações entre …

This work puts the current president's efforts to deconstruct the administrative state (ie, the
agencies, people, and processes of the executive establishment) into context. Analogous to …