Revisiting the Politicians’ Dilemma: Electoral Cycles, Partisanship and Bureaucratic Turnover

• In Event: Bureaucratic Capacity, Externalities, and Management

Brief Overview

This paper uses 15 years of individual-level bureaucrats’ work trajectories to study politically-motivated bureaucratic turnover at the individual and agency levels. It finds large heterogeneity between agencies and between bureaucratic ranks.

Author

• Daniel Brieba, London School of Economics and Political Science