Kucinskas The Loyalty Trap

Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-55728-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

The Loyalty Trap explores how civil servants navigated competing pressures and duties amid the chaos of the Trump administration, drawing on in-depth interviews with senior officials in the most contested agencies over the course of a tumultuous term.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kucinskas, Jaime Lee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Part I. An Introduction
1. Walking the Moral Tightrope
2. A Lurch Toward Autocracy
Part II. Keep Calm and Carry On: The Beginning of the Administration
3. The Spirit and Inherent Challenges of Public Administration
4. “Too Early to Tell”: Rationalizing Forbearance
5. Split Lives and External Engagement
Part III. Organizational Damage From Leadership Vacuums
6. Appointees’ Mistrust
7. Loyalty Traps
8. Signs of Organizational Decline
9. To Stay or Go?
Part IV. Civil Servant Resistance
10. Covert Resistance
11. Moral Courage
Part V. Conclusion
12. American Democracy at a Crossroads
Appendix A. Tables
Appendix B. Methodological Background Information
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jaime Lee Kucinskas is associate professor of sociology at Hamilton College. She is the author of The Mindful Elite: Mobilizing from the Inside Out (2019) and a coeditor of Situating Spirituality: Context, Practice, and Power (2022).