Friends in High Places: A Closer Look at the Impact of Presidential Influence on the Establishment and Maintenance of Postal Services

• In Event: JSS Session Bureaucratic Politics

Brief Overview

The aim of this paper is to examine executive and legislative branch influence on bureaucratic services like the postal service, using data on all post offices in service from 1939 to 2000 and data from the US postal guides.

Author

• Alexandria Putman, University of Georgia