Frida Boräng|Agnes Cornell|Marcia Grimes|Christian Schuster
Cooking the books: Bureaucratic politicization and policy knowledge
University of Gothenburg|Aarhus University|University of Gothenburg|University College London
accurate knowledge societal conditions public policies important public good polity yet governments across world differ dramatically extent collect publish knowledge article develops tests argument variation extent traced degree bureaucratic politicization polity politicized bureaucracy offers politicians greater opportunities demand bureaucratsand raises incentives bureaucrats supplypublic policy knowledge strategically biased suppressed manner benefits incumbents reputationally due electoral competition suggest link bureaucratic politicization politicized policy knowledge stronger democracies autocracies case analysis argentinas statistical agency lends credence underlying causal mechanism timeseries crosssectional analyses confirm broader validity expectations show relationship present democracies