Identifying bureaus with substantial personnel change during the Trump administration: A Bayesian approach.

ABSTRACT: Presidents and executive branch agencies often have adversarial relationships. Early accounts suggest that these antagonisms may have been deeper and broader under President Trump than under any recent President. Yet careful appraisals have sometimes shown that claims about what President Trump has done to government and politics are over-stated, require greater nuance, or are just plain wrong. In this article, we use federal employment records from the Office of Personnel Management to examine rates of entry and exit at agencies across the executive branch during President Trump's term. A key challenge in this endeavor is that agencies vary in size dramatically, and this variability makes direct comparisons of rates of entry and exit across agencies problematic. Small agencies are overrep

SUBMITTER: Libgober B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9847970 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature