While there are certainly some biased, partisan conservatives in the federal bureaucracy, the ideological imbalance in the civil service is striking. It’s not quite at university-faculty levels ...

This partisan divide in public opinion raises ... Despite these clear political imbalances, the analysis of officer behavior in Chicago and Houston yielded surprising results regarding political ...

In the 12 percent of elections in which the plurality winner was not the eventual winner, most were either elections with obvious partisan imbalance — e.g., one Republican running against two ...