Service after serving : the hiring, performance, and compensation of military veterans in the United States federal civilian bureaucracy
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Since the end of World War II, military veterans have staffed between one-quarter to one-half of all positions in the United States federal civilian bureaucracy. The abundance of former military personnel in federal employment results mainly from preferential hiring policies that partially exempt veterans--and, in some instances, their relatives--from merit screening. Yet, despite their prominence, veterans working in the federal civilian bureaucracy have received little attention from scholars: veterans' influence on government performance remains unknown, as does the effect of government employment on military veterans. In this dissertation, I provide new information about those issues, while also considering the normative and policy implications of veterans' preference policies. I find that that military veterans rank among the top performing civil servants and they increase the performance of programs housed in the bureaus in which they work. Moreover, this performance effect holds among veterans known to have benefited from preferential hiring. Despite this strong performance, statistical analyses reported herein indicate that military veterans employed in the federal service earn significantly lower wages than nonveteran federal employees. As well, I find that veterans employed as civil servants do not produce distinctively better outcomes for other veterans who seek government services. In sum, while veterans significantly improve federal government performance, federal employment does not offer exceptional advantages to military veterans. These findings carry normative and policy implications, which I discuss in this dissertation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Johnson, Timothy Patrick |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
| Primary advisor | Moe, Terry M |
| Thesis advisor | Moe, Terry M |
| Thesis advisor | Fiorina, Morris P |
| Thesis advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Advisor | Fiorina, Morris P |
| Advisor | Ober, Josiah |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Tim Johnson. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2011 by Timothy Patrick Johnson
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