Presidential Politicization in the Post-Watergate Era

• In Event: Presidential Appointments into the Federal Bureaucracy

Brief Overview

Using recently-released federal payroll records from 1973-2014, we provide the first large-scale analysis of politicization strategies over the first forty years of the post-Watergate era.

Authors

• Gary Edward Hollibaugh, University of Pittsburgh

• Lawrence Rothenberg, University of Rochester