作者：Bell, LC; Rosenthal, CS
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Missing from most studies of congressional staff is the insight gained from the representative bureaucracy literature that descriptive characteristics may affect the behavior of unelected bureaucrats. In considering congressional representation as an activity mediated by staff, we ask: Does descriptive representation of congressional committee staff lead to substantive representation? We explore this question, using gender as our descriptive characteristic of interest. We produce a typology of...
作者：Brewer, GA
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This study compares public servants and other citizens with regard to several important civic attitudes and behaviors that are closely related to social capital. These attributes include social trust, social altruism, equality, tolerance, humanitarianism, and civic participation. The first five attributes provide soft evidence of social capital, but the last attribute-civic participation-is hard behavioral evidence. Finally, a rigorous test is applied: a multivariate model estimates the streng...
