Implementation of AI into Federal Agencies: Keeping an Eye on the Federal Workforce

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daylyn Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Federal Workforce

Ideology, Unionization, and Personnel Politics in the Federal Budget Process

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Strong Support ◽  
Federal Budget ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Budget Process ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Federal Workforce ◽  
Federal Budget Process

Abstract This article studies how administrations seek to shape the federal workforce through the budget process. I develop a theory of personnel politics in which presidents balance ideological and interest group demands in distributing human resources across the federal government. I argue administrations advantage organizations with which they are ideologically aligned and that agencies with higher levels of union penetration see increased budgeted personnel levels, particularly during Democratic presidencies. Using an original dataset of budgeted personnel levels from fiscal years (FY) 1983–2016 and a series of regression analyses, I find strong support for these hypotheses. I also examine the sensitivity of presidential strategy to congressional preferences, agency professionalization, and leadership politicization, providing insights into how this control strategy interacts with the broader environment. Overall, these results have implications for understanding the political dynamics of human capital and capacity in the federal bureaucracy, the administrative presidency, and the politics of performance in federal agencies.

scholarly journals Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce: Executive Order 13583 and Demographic Trends

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-417
Author(s):  
Erin Borry ◽  
Heather Getha-Taylor ◽  
Maja Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Employment Opportunity ◽  
Workforce Diversity ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Diverse Workforce ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Federal Workforce

President Obama’s 2011 Executive Order 13583 was expected to serve as a catalyst for a coordinated government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce. This order reinforced the government’s commitment to equal employment opportunity by “using the talents of all segments of society,” achieved by recruiting, hiring, promoting, and retaining a more diverse workforce. The order mandated the creation of a government-wide diversity and inclusion strategic plan as well as agency-specific plans. This study uses institutional theory as a lens to examine agency response to EO 13583 to articulate diversity and inclusion rationales, practices, and correlating workforce demographic trends. We examine how three federal agencies articulated diversity and inclusion practices and activities in the plans. We explore demographic workforce trends prior to, during, and after adoption of the agency diversity and inclusion plans. Together, these analyses offer evidence of varied approaches to diversity and inclusion as well as uneven progress in pursuing the letter and spirit of the order. Specifically, the articulation of agency-specific diversity goals following Executive Order 13583 does not consistently translate to enhanced workforce diversity.

Federal Agencies to Study Health Effects of BPA

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH MECHCATIE
Keyword(s):  
Health Effects ◽  
Federal Agencies

Dammed If You Don’t, But What If You Do? Breaching the Lower Snake River Dams in Washington State

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Lopardo ◽  
Clare M. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Policy Process ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Snake River ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Steep Decline ◽  
Mitigation Techniques ◽  
Economic Analyses

Four dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State generate hydropower and allow for regional agriculture and barge shipping to Portland OR. However, the dams impede the migration of local salmon populations (Oncorhynchus spp.), which are in steep decline, and drastically impact the populations of salmon and orca whales, for whom salmon are a primary food source. For years, environmental groups have argued for breaching the dams; other interests counter that the dams are too critical to the economy of the region to lose; and federal agencies assert that the dams can remain and salmon populations will recover with mitigation techniques. Scientific and economic analyses, litigation, and elected officials’ efforts have not been able to move the issue towards a solution. Readers will examine the interests of primary actors in the issue, how they influence the policy process, the role of scientific and economic analyses, and possible approaches for resolving the issue.

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