Dr. Samantha Richards - Inefficiencies of Municipal Partisan Politics (Party Politics) Partisan politics is a rampant design of democratic bureaucracies. They exist on federal levels in nearly every country worldwide—from the United Kingdom to Brazil, South Korea to Iceland, Canada to Russia, and even in places like North Korea—which has adopted a unilateral, partisan approach (Boulding and Brown 2015; Copus 2004; Gnarr, 2014; Yoon and Shin 2017). In the United States...