Job Mobility between Government and other Social Structures

Abstract

Professions and occupations, as well as government, are considered as hierarchic structures of statuses. Job switching between professions and gov ernment positions can be analyzed in terms of status sequences. Computer simulation is ideal for such studies. Some key problems of political theory depend for their solution upon knowledge of patterns of occupational inter change. This article originally appeared, in somewhat different form, as Publi cation No. A-289 of the Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University.