Understanding public support for the US federal bureaucracy - A macro politics view

被引:22
作者
Yackee, SW
Lowery, D
机构
[1] Univ So Calif, Sch Policy Planning & Dev, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
[2] Leiden Univ, NL-2300 RB Leiden, Netherlands
关键词
administration; approval; bureaucracy; government performance; public agencies;
D O I
10.1080/14719030500362389
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
While a number of scholars have examined citizens' satisfaction with specific encounters with government agencies, few studies have assessed explanations of the public's overall evaluations of bureaucratic performance, especially accounts that address sources of variation over time. We address this gap with a new annual time series measure of aggregate assessments of the US federal bureaucracy. We find that public approval of bureaucratic performance varies markedly over time. We then test a number of prior explanations for this movement focusing on both broad contextual forces in the political environment and more specific variables more closely associated with the federal bureaucracy. While data limitations preclude developing a fully specified model tapping all of the explanations simultaneously, we are able to rule out a wide range of 'usual suspects' as free standing or sufficient accounts of variations in aggregate bureaucratic approval over time. But we also isolate a number of promising explanations.
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页码:515 / 536
页数:22
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