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Jaime Lee Kucinskas, "The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy" (Columbia UP, 2025)

New Books in Sociology

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Exploring Civil Servants' Loyalties in an Autocratic Era

The speaker shares their journey as a sociology professor and their motivations for researching civil servant loyalties after the 2016 presidential election. They delve into the complexities and tensions between government employees and the administration in the context of rising autocracy.

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