Politicized Meritocracy: Determinants of Partisan and Racial Selection in US City Government

• In Event: Ideology and Partisanship in the Bureaucracy

Brief Overview

Weberian bureaucracies are assumed to leave little room for politicization. I show how self-selection, homophily and institutional inertia lead to a “bottom-up” politicization of professionalized bureaucracies – even without strong political control.

Author

• Elisa Maria Wirsching, New York University