Bureaucracy is everywhere. Unelected bureaucrats are a key link between government and
citizens, between policy and implementation. Bureaucratic politics constitutes a growing …

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 …

We study the consequences of populism for economic performance and the quality of
bureaucracy. When voters lose trust in representative democracy, populists strategically …

If presidents wish to see their policy priorities implemented, they need control over key
decision-making positions often occupied by career executives. This article examines …

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

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 …

We explore the consequences of populism for bureaucrats' incentives by analyzing a model
of delegated policymaking between politicians and bureaucrats. Populist politicians prefer a …

This article challenges the common assumption that the partisan identification of
bureaucratic elites is fixed over time. Building on principal-agent and organization theory …

The global experience of political polarization, and politicians' attacks on democratic
institutions, render individuals' identification with the governing coalition, or with its …

Building on agency-theoretical perspectives of public bureaucracies, we argue that politician–
bureaucrat preference alignment can have important implications for bureaucrats' pay. We …