Ideology, Unionization, and Personnel Politics in the Federal Budget Process
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Bolton, Alexander
署名单位：
Emory University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
ISSN/ISSBN：
1053-1858
DOI：
10.1093/jopart/muaa032
发表日期：
2021
页码：
38-55
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摘要：
This article studies how administrations seek to shape the federal workforce through the budget process. I develop a theory of personnel politics in which presidents balance ideological and interest group demands in distributing human resources across the federal government. I argue administrations advantage organizations with which they are ideologically aligned and that agencies with higher levels of union penetration see increased budgeted personnel levels, particularly during Democratic presidencies. Using an original dataset of budgeted personnel levels from fiscal years (FY) 1983-2016 and a series of regression analyses, I find strong support for these hypotheses. I also examine the sensitivity of presidential strategy to congressional preferences, agency professionalization, and leadership politicization, providing insights into how this control strategy interacts with the broader environment. Overall, these results have implications for understanding the political dynamics of human capital and capacity in the federal bureaucracy, the administrative presidency, and the politics of performance in federal agencies.
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