Mark D. Richardson
Survey on the Future of Government Service
I served as Co-Director of the 2014 Survey on the Future of Government Service, a survey of nearly nearly 15,000 senior federal government employees sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Vanderbilt University, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and the Volcker Alliance. In my research, I use the survey data to analyze the effect of the politicization of federal agencies on the stock of policy expertise in the executive branch and to explore presidential appointment strategies.
We publicly released key findings characterizing the state of the public service at the National Press Club on July 16, 2015.
Documents from the Public Release - July 16, 2015
Topline Results for Selected Questions
News Coverage
Washington Post - August 3, 2015
Real Clear Policy - July 23, 2015
Federal News Radio - July 17, 2015
Fiscal Times - July 17, 2015
Federal Times - July 16, 2015
Op-eds Based on the Survey
Monkey Cage, Washington Post - December 16, 2017
Monkey Cage, Washington Post - November 29, 2017
The Conversation - January 26, 2017
REGBLOG at the Penn Program on Regulation - September 10, 2015
Newsweek - July 17, 2015
FIXGOV Blog at the Brookings Institution - July 17, 2015
The Conversation - July 16, 2015