We present a formal model explaining that US presidents strategically unionize federal
employees to reduce bureaucratic turnover and 'anchor'the ideological composition of like …

What effect does regulatory auditing by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) have on the production of regulations in the agencies? In particular, does targeting …

Politicians react to administrative policy making by developing systems of oversight. Existing
studies largely emphasize the advantages of reactive oversight, where politicians wait for …

This paper studies the link between lateral mobility and promotions. The first part of the
paper extends the theoretical literature by incorporating lateral moves into a job assignment …

Many important policies are implemented through interagency coordination. We posit that
interagency coordination works as supervision among agencies. Using innovative datasets …

This article develops a procedure for estimating the ideal points of actors in a political
hierarchy, such as a public bureaucracy. The procedure is based on a spatial auditing …

We present a formal model explaining that US presidents strategically unionize federal
employees to reduce bureaucratic turnover and 'anchor'the ideological composition of like …