Bureaucratic Revolving Doors and Interest Group Participation in Policymaking

• In Event: Political Appointees and Senior Bureaucrats (Co-sponsored with Section 52: Presidency & Executive Politics)

Brief Overview

Using a novel dataset on career trajectories of bureaucrats in the US Trade Representative (USTR), we examine how the entry of the revolving door bureaucrat into the agency affects the connected firm's participation in the agency's policymaking.

Authors

• Kyuwon Lee, New York University

• Hye Young You, New York University