Should I Stay or Should I Go: Policy Change and Civil Servants' Career Choices

• In Event: Politics, Policy, and Civil Servants

Brief Overview

We use data on agency policy goals and a survey of federal executives to examine whether changes in the policy goals make civil servants less likely to engage in behaviors that build policy expertise and more likely to exit their agency.

Authors

• Mark D. Richardson, Georgetown University

• Christopher Piper, Vanderbilt University