In the past decade, political science has witnessed a substantial amount of research using
formal models to explicate the rationale for and effects of myriad aspects of bureaucratic …

This article first provides a selective overview of the literature on bureaucratic autonomy and
identifies different approaches to this topic. The second section discusses three major sets of …

Street level discretion--Three pathologies: the indifferent, the enforcer, and the caregiver--A
gymnastics of the self: coping with the everyday pressures of street-level work--When the …

Can meaningful representation emerge in an authoritarian setting? If so, how, when, and
why? Making Autocracy Work identifies the trade-offs associated with representation in …

How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their
operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can …

Principal-agent theory has been the dominant theory at the heart of public sector
accountability research. The notion of the potentially drifting agent—such as independent …

We combine personnel records of the United States federal bureaucracy from 1997 to 2019
with administrative voter registration data to study how ideological alignment between …

Can international institutions help create more cooperative and peaceful relations between
states? If so, how? And what motivates states to create meaningful institutions in the first …

How does the EU resolve controversy when making laws that affect citizens? How has the
EU been affected by the recent enlargements that brought its membership to a diverse group …

We analyze a model of delegation and policymaking in polities where bureaucratic capacity
is low. Our analysis suggests that low bureaucratic capacity diminishes incentives for …