Meritocracy, Federalism, and Ideological Extremism in Latin American Bureaucracies

• In Event: Ideology and Partisanship in the Bureaucracy

Brief Overview

This paper argues that government career systems and governance institutions lead to a more or less ideologically extreme or moderate public workforce. Our empirical subjects are public employees in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay.

Authors

• Tatiana Paula da Cruz, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin-Madison