{"id":24061,"date":"2026-06-20T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/no-ias-no-upsc-how-americas-bureaucracy-works-without-a-permanent-elite-cadre\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:58:24","slug":"no-ias-no-upsc-how-americas-bureaucracy-works-without-a-permanent-elite-cadre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/no-ias-no-upsc-how-americas-bureaucracy-works-without-a-permanent-elite-cadre\/","title":{"rendered":"No IAS, no UPSC: How America&#039;s bureaucracy works without a permanent elite cadre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/education\/news\/no-ias-no-upsc-how-americas-bureaucracy-works-without-a-permanent-elite-cadre\/articleshow\/131869781.cms\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top:3px;margin-right:5px\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/photo\/131869781.cms\" \/><\/a>India&#8217;s IAS-led bureaucracy is often compared with the United States, where no UPSC-style examination or IAS equivalent exists. Instead, a new US President can appoint roughly 4,000 political officials, while leadership positions listed in the government&#8217;s Plum Book number around 8,000\u20139,000. However, administrative continuity is maintained by a permanent federal workforce of more than 20 lakh civilian employees. The article explains how America&#8217;s two-layered system balances political change with bureaucratic stability.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/education\/news\/no-ias-no-upsc-how-americas-bureaucracy-works-without-a-permanent-elite-cadre\/articleshow\/131869781.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s IAS-led bureaucracy is often compared with the United States, where no UPSC-style examination or IAS equivalent exists. Instead, a new US President can appoint roughly 4,000 political officials, while leadership positions listed in the government&#8217;s Plum Book number around 8,000\u20139,000. However, administrative continuity is maintained by a permanent federal workforce of more than 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-education"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}