Loyalty to principle or party: The US civil service is under attack, but is it justified?

Ohio State University professor Jos Raadschelders and I explore this question in an article first published in the July 2024 issue of the academic journal ‘Public Money and Management’ and we are now updating that article after the results of the US presidential elections in November 2024. We concluded then and now, after the US elections, that while it is (under attack), the best defense will still come from individual civil servants.