Ting, Michael M; Jr, James M Snyder; Hirano, Shigeo; … - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 25 (2013) 3, pp. 363-387
Most government bureaucracies in developed countries use civil service systems. What accounts for their adoption? We develop and test a model of bureaucratic reforms under repeated partisan competition. In the model, two political parties composed of overlapping generations of candidates compete...