Using games to test social identity dynamics in representative bureaucracy

Cool heads prevailed on the hot topics of race and gender in representative bureaucracy recently in a novel test of public administration hypotheses. CORD Fellows Spiro Maroulis and Stuart Bretschneider, with CORD Affiliate Brian Seo and collaborator Catalina Canals (Universidad de O’Higgins), demonstrated how simulation-based behavioral experiments can be used to test public administration theories in a new article examining the mechanisms that underlie active representation in representative bureaucracy.

In discussing their experimental results, the researchers underscore the importance of intersectionality and future work to understand processes of representation at the micro-level. Read the article "Simulation-Based Behavioral Experiments on Active Representation" in the Journal of Behavioral Public Administration (JBPA) here (https://journal-bpa.org/index.php/jbpa/article/view/355).