Bureaucratic structures, politicization, and bureaucratic behavior

Readings and class materials for Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Readings

Christopher A. Cooper, “Encouraging Civil Servants to Be Frank and Fearless: Merit Recruitment and Employee Voice,” Public Administration 96, no. 4 (December 2018): 721–35, https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12548.
Jørgen Grønnegård Christensen and Niels Opstrup, “Bureaucratic Dilemmas: Civil Servants Between Political Responsiveness and Normative Constraints,” Governance 31, no. 3 (July 2018): 481–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12312.
Virginia Oliveros and Christian Schuster, “Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in the Dominican Republic,” Comparative Political Studies 51, no. 6 (May 2018): 759–92, https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414017710268.
Kohei Suzuki and Hyunkang Hur, “Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment: Findings from a Comparative Study of 20 European Countries,” Public Management Review 22, no. 6 (June 2020): 877–907, https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1619813.

How to discuss an article in a seminar

Crash course in quantitative methods (i.e. how to draw lines through points)
- Governance and regression Posit.cloud project
- Governance and regression project .zip file
- Data we’ll play with (it’s already included in the .zip file above too)
  - vdem_2015.csv (for any program)
  - vdem_2015.rds (for R)
  - vdem_2015.dta (for Stata; you can do all this marginal effects stuff in Stata if you use the margins command)
Bureaucratic structures, politicization, and bureaucratic behavior
- Cooper, “Encouraging Civil Servants to Be Frank and Fearless.”
- Christensen and Opstrup, “Bureaucratic Dilemmas.”
- Oliveros and Schuster, “Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior.”
- Suzuki and Hur, “Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment.”