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Compliance costs, corruption and the differentiation of bureaucratic services
Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 12.17.2015
How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …
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Contests among bureaucrats
Bös, Dieter - 2002
This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the...
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A costly commitment : populism, government performance, and the quality of bureaucracy
Bellodi, Luca; Morelli, Massimo; Vannoni, Matia - 2021
We study the consequences of populism for government performance and the quality of bureaucracy. When voters lose trust …
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Contracts offered by bureaucrats
Khalil, Fahad; Kim, Doyoung; Lawarrée, Jacques - 2013
We examine the power of incentives in bureaucracies by studying contracts offered by a bureaucrat to her agent. The bureaucrat operates under a fixed budget, optimally chosen by a funding authority, and she can engage in policy drift, which we define as inversely related to her intrinsic...
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Political alignment and bureaucratic pay
Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; … - 2019
We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...
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Bureaucrats and public procurement
Bös, Dieter - 2001
This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual real-izations of benefit and costs of the project, the second...
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Bureaucrats or politicians?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004
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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials
Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023 - This version: December 6, 2022
While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit … having sizeable discretion and minimal extrinsic incentives. Through conjoint experiments, we identify the relative …
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Petty corruption and citizen feedback
Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015
Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate …
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One size fits all? : decentralization, corruption, and the monitoring of bureaucrats
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … that the devolution of power might be a feasible instrument to keep corruption at bay. We argue that this result crucially …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the …
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