From Civil Service to the New Machines: The Transformation of Municipal Bureaucracy

• In Event: The Political Development of American Cities

Brief Overview

We analyze the effect of civil service adoption on municipal unionization and election outcomes using a large, newly collected dataset in all US cities that had more than 10,000 people between 1930 and 1970.

Authors

• Sarah F. Anzia, University of California-Berkeley

• Jessica Trounstine, University of California-Merced