Government statistical agencies and the politics of credibility.

First, Howard shows that while politicians have incentives to meddle in official statistics for short-term gain, they are rarely successful at doing so. Each country's unique administrative tradition, in Howard's view, affects how politicians and statisticians perform credibility, and hence the allocation of statistical authority. The politics of government statistical agencies tends to be baked into their organizational DNA, what Terry Moe would call a "politics of bureaucratic structure". [Extracted from the article]