the case of politicians, which is consistent with younger bureaucrats having stronger career concerns. …The paper argues that for political reasons elected politicians are more likely to be engaged in targeted … redistribution than appointed bureaucrats. It uses the example of patronage jobs in the U.S. local governments to provide empirical …

-shifting from politicians to bureaucrats. The considerations made in this paper can help to design a more efficient institutional …

-shifting from politicians to bureaucrats. The considerations made in this paper can help to design a more efficient institutional …

communities. -- politicians ; bureaucrats ; decision making under uncertainty ; flood insurance ; spatial econometrics …

blame-shifting from politicians to bureaucrats. The considerations made in this paper can help to design a more efficient …

public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concernsthat the strong representation of bureaucrats in many Western …

. There is also evidence in the literature to suggest that the STOCK Act was able to deter politicians from trading based on … non-public information. However, the question of whether politicians made informed trades at the market level (using non … and find that the STOCK Act adversely affected the ability of politicians’ aggregated stock trades to predict the stock …