Democratization and Representative Bureaucracy

An Analysis of Promotion Patterns in Indonesia's Civil Service, 1980–2015

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6229436
AutoresJan Pierskalla (0000-0003-0483-3360, The Ohio State University, autor correspondente), Jan H Pierskalla, Adam Lauretig (JUST Capital, autor correspondente), Andrew S Rosenberg (0000-0001-9374-7741, University of Florida, autor correspondente), Audrey Sacks (World Bank, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume65
Fascículo2
Páginas261-277
Data de publicação2021-04-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ajps.12536
OpenAlexW3041973647
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas60

Civil service organizations in the developing world often lack women and minorities in leadership positions. This has important consequences for the quality of public goods provision and the perceived trustworthiness of bureaucrats. We explore the effect of democratization on the discrimination of women and minorities in the civil service. We argue democratization leads to increased discrimination due to the politicization of identity cleavages. We test our argument using administrative data from Indonesia that cover the career histories of more than four million active civil servants. We exploit the exogenous timing of Indonesia's democratization and the staggered introduction of local direct elections for identification purposes. We find strong evidence that democratization worsened the career prospects of female and some religious minority bureaucrats. Penalties are higher for employees of departments led by conservative Muslim parties, in districts with larger Muslim party vote shares or larger Muslim populations, and in the religiously conservative province of Aceh

Argument (complex analysis · Bureaucracy · Democracy · Democratization · Political economy · Political science · Promotion (chess · Representativeness heuristic · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology