Malleable Partisanship: Political Dynamics in Bureaucratic Elites’ Identification

• In Event: Ideology and Partisanship in the Bureaucracy

Brief Overview

This article challenges the common assumption that the partisanship of bureaucratic elites is fixed over time. We use survey data from 1964-2008 to study US agency leaders before and after partisan shifts in their agency’s elected principals.

Authors

• Benny Geys, BI Norwegian Business School

• Per Laegreid, University of Bergen

• Zuzana Murdoch, University of Bergen

• Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin-Madison