This research note sets out to draw up a research agenda on the role of passive representation and intersectionality for perceived bureaucratic discrimination, emphasizing the need to open the discussion on how to model intersectionality and improve the measurement of subjective discrimination....

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit preferences of 900+ real-world public procurement officials in Finland and Germany. This is an important pursuit as they report having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic...

This paper studies the role of bureaucracy in determining China's fiscal picture through the lens of local government debt. By empirically examining the causality between politicians' profile and budgeting, I unveil some opportunistic behaviors that stem from age-based promotion incentives....