Bureaucratic structures, politicization, and bureaucratic behavior

Readings and class materials for Thursday, October 2, 2025

Readings

•  Christopher A. Cooper, “Encouraging Civil Servants to Be Frank and Fearless: Merit Recruitment and Employee Voice,” Public Administration 96, no. 4 (December 2018): 721–35, https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12548.

•  Jørgen Grønnegård Christensen and Niels Opstrup, “Bureaucratic Dilemmas: Civil Servants Between Political Responsiveness and Normative Constraints,” Governance 31, no. 3 (July 2018): 481–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12312.

•  Virginia Oliveros and Christian Schuster, “Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in the Dominican Republic,” Comparative Political Studies 51, no. 6 (May 2018): 759–92, https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414017710268.

•  Kohei Suzuki and Hyunkang Hur, “Bureaucratic Structures and Organizational Commitment: Findings from a Comparative Study of 20 European Countries,” Public Management Review 22, no. 6 (June 2020): 877–907, https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1619813.