1976, the proportion of high-level civil servants listing themselves as Republican was only 16 percent-with self-styled Democrats at 38 percent and Independents at 46 percent.
Nonetheless, in that year, a majority (60 percent) of all top federal managers surveyed favored the administration's New Federalism phi- losophy. "A considerable reservoir of potential presidential support,' the authors conclude, exists among "independent" civil servants who are generally willing to accommodate...