Fire At Will: Civil Service Reform and Bureaucratic Accountability

• In Event: Bureaucratic Hiring, Firing, and the Revolving Door

Brief Overview

Civil service protections shift accountability incentives between voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. A formal model examines the mechanisms through which at-will firing and just cause dismissal, respectively, induce costly effort.

Authors

• Dan Alexander, University of Rochester

• Ruth E Holloway, University of Rochester