Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Survey on the Future of Government Service

SFGS Executive Summary
SFGS Slides
SFGS Methodology
SFGS Topline Results
CSDI Working Paper 2-2017 - "Personnel System Under Stress: Results of the 2014 Survey on the Future of Government Service."
Agency Average Data Sets from CSDI Working Paper 2-2017
CSV
Stata
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MEDIA

9/10/15 - REGBLOG - Penn Program on Regulation - http://www.regblog.org/2015/09/10/lewis-policymaking-bad-anecdote/
8/3/15 - Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2015/08/03/a-disturbing-look-at-personnel-issues-inside-federal-agencies/
7/3/15 -govloop.com - https://www.govloop.com/who-wants-to-be-the-boss/
7/24/15 - Nashville Post - https://www.nashvillepost.com/category/people/david_e_lewis
7/24/15 - Las Vegas Review Journal - http://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-underperforming-federal-employees-rarely-get-fired
7/23/15 - R Street Institute blog - http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/07/23/dysfunctional_federal_workforce_1374-2.html
7/20/15 - The Fiscal Times -David Lewis is quoted in an article about Jeb Bush's plan to reduce the federal workforce - http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/07/20/Bush-Targets-Big-Government-Plan-Reduce-Federal-Workforce
7/17/15 - Federal News Radio -http://federalnewsradio.com/hiringretention/2015/07/four-things-negatively-impacting-agencies/
7/17/15 - Newsweek -http://www.newsweek.com/how-keep-good-people-working-government-354808
7/17/15 - Fiscal Times - http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/07/17/Federal-Employees-Can-t-Hire-Best-Can-t-Fire-Worst
7/17/15 - Brookings - http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/07/17-government-doing-more-with-less-federal-executives-lewis http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/07/17-government-doing-more-with-less-federal-executives-lewis
7/16/15 - Federal Times - http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/management/hr/2015/07/16/hiring-retention-survey/30246665/
7/16/15 -The Conversation - http://theconversation.com/the-people-problem-in-government-44734

Latest Research

2023 - Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law - "County-Level Segregation and Racial Diasparities in COVID-19 Outcomes," has been released. The article was co-authored by Jessica Trounstine and Sidra Goldman-Mellor

2023 - Journal of Experimental Political Science - "Ranking Candidates in Local Elections: Neither Catastrophe or Panacea," has been released. The article was co-authored by Melody Crowder-Meyer, Shana Gadarian and Jessica Trounstine.

2023 - Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory - "Do Vacancies Hurt Federal Agency Performance?" has been released. The article was co-authored by David Lewis and Christopher Piper

2023 - Cornell Law Review - "The Independent Agency Myth," has been released. The article was co-authored by David Lewis and Neal Devins

2023- American Political Science Review- "Presidential Investment in the Administrative State," has been released. The artcle was co-authored by Nicholas Bednar and David Lewis

2023 - Political Research Quarterly - "The Conditional Lawmaking Benefits of Party Faction Membership in Congress" has been released. The article was co-authored by Andrew J. Clarke, Craig Volden and Alan Wisemen.

2023 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - "House Republicans Were Rewarded for Supporitng Donald Trump's 'Stop the Steal' Efforts" has been released. The article was co-authored by Larry Bartels and Nick Carnes

2023 - Journal of Politics - "Babies and Ballots: Timing of Childbirth on Voter Turnout" has been published. The article was co-authored by Cindy Kam, Sara Kirshbaum and Lauren Chojnacki

2022 - American Political Science Review - "The Effect of Television Advertising in United States Elections" has been published. The article was co-authored by John Sides, Lynn Vaverick and Christopher Warshaw

1/6/2021 - Science Advances - "Partisan pandemic: How partisanship and public health concerns affect individuals’ social mobility during COVID-19" has been published. The article was co-authored by J. Clinton, J Cohen, J. Lapinski and M. Trussler

12/2/2020 - Legislative Studies Quarterly, "Legislative Constraints, Ideological Conflict, and the Timing of Executive Unilateralism" has been published. The article was co-authored by Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower

11/13/2020- University of Chicago Pres Journals, "Partisanship, Policy, and Elections: How Medicaid Expansion Affected Public Opinion Toward the Affordable Care Act" has been published. It was co-authored by Josh Clinton and Michael Sances

9/24/2020 CSDI Working Paper - 4 - 2020 titled"Democracy Erodes From the Top Public Opinion and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe" has been released. The paper was authored by Larry Bartels

9/15/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Ethnic Antagonism Erodes Republicans' Commitment to Democracy" has been published. The article was authored by Larry Bartels

9/8/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, "The effect of big-city news on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic" has been published. The article was co-authoreed by Josh Clinton, Eunji Kim and Michael Shepherd

8/20/2020 - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, "The Effect of Big-City News on Rural America During the Covid -19 Pandemic" has been published. The article was co-authored by Josh Clinton, Eunji Kim and Michael Shepherd

7/20/2020 CSDI Working Paper 1 - 2020 titled "Personal Narratives Reduce Negative Attitudes toward Refugees and Immigrant Outgroups: Evidence from Kenya" has been released. The co-authors are Nicole Audette, Jeremy Horowitz and Kristin Michelitch

6/20/2020 - Election Law Journal, "The Politics of Locating Polling Places: Race and Partisanship in North Carolina Election Administration, 2008–2016" has been published. The article was co-authored by Josh Clinton, Nick Eubank, Adrienne Fresh and Michael Shepherd

5/1/2020 CSDI Working Paper 3 - 2020 titled "Work Welfare and Partisan Change" has been released. the co-authors are Larry Bartels and Katherine Cramer

4/15/2020 CSDI Working Paper 2 -2020 titled "Conceptions of Good Citizenship in the Class of 1965" has been released. The co-authors are Larry Bartels and Katherine Cramer

3/10/2020 - Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, "Presidential Signing Statements and Separation of Power Bills" has been published. The paper was authored by Sharece Thrower

10/20/2019 - Legislative Studies Quarterly, "Legislative Constraints on Executive Unilateralism In Separation of Powers Systems" was released. The co-authors are Michael Barber, Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower

8/8/19 CSDI Working Paper 2 - 2019 titled "Candidate Coethnicity, Rural Dwelling, and Partisanship in Africa" has been released. The paper was co-authored by Robin Harding and Kristin Michelitch.

8/16/2019 - Public Choice - "The effect of majority party agenda setting on roll calls" has been published. The paper was authored by Josh Clinton

7/30/19 CSDI Working Paper 1 - 2019 titled "Bridge over Troubled Water: Same Gender Substantive Representation in 49 Subnational Ugandan Governments." has been released. The paper is co-authored by SangEun Kim and Kristin Michelitch.

4/19 Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, "Executive Control and Turnover in the Senor Executive Service." has been published. The article was co-authored by Kathleen Doherty, David Lewis and Scott Limbocker.

Media Spotlight

Washington Post - Op-Ed 3/26/2020 - Co-Director John Sides - "Surprisingly few voters think Trump cares about ‘people like me’

Washington Post - Op-Ed 4/8/2020 - Co-Director John Sides - "Negative Views of Asian People have risen in both parties."

Washington Post - Op-Ed 10/28/2020 - Co -Director John Sides - "TV ads still win elections. And Democrats are buying alot more of them."

New York Times - Op-Ed - 6/25/2019 - Co Director Larry Bartels - "A lot of Candidates May Make it Seem Like Democracy is Working, But it is Not."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 6/24/19 - Co -Director David E. Lewis - Here's Why Trump is Threatening Federal Layoffs if Congress Won't Shut This Agency Down."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 5/21/18 - SVS Alex Theodoridis and graduate affiliate James Martherus - "Trump isn't the only one who calls opponents 'animals.' Democrats and Republicans do it to each other."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 5/14/18 - Co-Director Larry Bartels - "White People get more conservative when they move up - not down - economically. Here's the evidence."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 4/15/18 - Co-Director Larry Bartles - "How Paul Ryan Lost the Republican Party."

Washington Post - Monkey Cage - 2/21/18 - Co Director Larry Bartels - "Here's how little Americans have learned about Donald Trump."