How Agencies’ Political Environments Shape Civil Servants’ Behavior: Partisan Disagreement, Politicization, and Career Decisions

• In Event: Ideology and Partisanship in the Bureaucracy

Brief Overview

This paper uses a 2020 survey of senior U.S. federal civil servants to examine how the magnitude of partisan conflict faced by agencies affects civil servants’ career choices, namely turnover intention and expertise investment.

Author

• Mark D. Richardson, Georgetown University