A substantial literature demonstrates how politicians’ preferences shape budget outcomes. But that literature neglects how bureaucrats might also shape those outcomes. In the current issue of
Governance,
Martin Baekgaard, Jens Blom-Hansenand
Soren Serritzlew develop a more sophisticated model that examines the influence of both politicians and bureaucrats. In a study of Danish local governments, “political preferences trump bureaucratic ones on questions salient to the public” — but there is “no evidence that political preferences matter on less salient policy areas.”
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