The global experience of political polarization, and politicians' attacks on democratic institutions, render individuals' identification with the governing coalition, or with its opposition, a likely antecedent of their attraction to work in government. This article examines to what extent individuals' partisan alignment with the governing coalition, and perceptions of its actions as a threat to democracy, shapes attraction to government jobs. Findings are based on a two‐stage survey with 1861 Israeli panel respondents, aged 21–30, carried out during the government's attempt to undermine the legal system (hereafter: the Judicial Overhaul), and a follow‐up survey experiment with 1211 of the respondents. Against the politically neutral explanations of previous research, we show that partisan alignment affects the propensity to choose a job in a government ministry versus other sectors. We find mixed evidence in support of the proposition that perceptions of the Judicial Overhaul as a threat to democracy underlie this effect.

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对政府就业的品味也取决于它的政治味道


全球政治两极分化的经验，以及政客对民主制度的攻击，使得个人对执政联盟或其反对派的认同，可能是他们被吸引到政府工作的前提。本文研究了个人与执政联盟的党派一致性，以及将其行为视为对民主的威胁，在多大程度上影响了对政府工作的吸引力。调查结果基于对 1861 名年龄在 21-30 岁之间的以色列小组受访者进行的两阶段调查，该调查是在政府试图破坏法律制度（以下简称：司法改革）期间进行的，以及对 1211 名受访者的后续调查实验。与先前研究的政治中立解释相反，我们表明党派一致性会影响选择政府部门工作而不是其他部门工作的倾向。我们发现了混合的证据来支持这一主张，即将司法改革视为对民主的威胁的看法是这种效果的基础。