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Choosing a Dictator : Bureaucracy and Welfare in Less Developed Polities
Rauch, James E. - 2021
bureaucracy in place of political appointees as an important component of the institutional environment in which private … corruption of their subordinates as a byproduct of their efforts to implement their preferences using tax revenue. Within this …
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Local Government Budgeting : The Econometric Comparison of Political and Bureaucratic Models
Feldstein, Martin S.; Frisch, Daniel J. - 2021
The current paper presents a method of deciding the question of whether any given stage in the budget process is an example of the "political" or the "bureaucratic" model. We then use it to study local government spending on education. The basis for our method is the important difference between...
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The Limits of Meritocracy : Screening Bureaucrats Under Imperfect Verifiability
Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2016
Does bureaucratic ability predict promotion in governments? We show that self-reported performance in enforcing the One Child Policy predicts mayoral promotion in China. However, misreporting handicaps screening—a non-manipulated performance measure does not predict promotion. We show that...
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Selection and Oversight in the Public Sector, with the Los Angeles Police Department as an Example
Prendergast, Canice - 2021
I offer theoretical and empirical observations on the oversight of public sector employees. I argue that it is unreasonable to expect that the solutions typically considered in the literature will be effective with public sector employees, because bureaucrats are especially difficult to monitor....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243617
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Bureaucracy as a Mechanism to Generate Information
Novaes, Walter - 2010
argues that the thin line between efficient management practices and inefficient bureaucracy is crossed to curb managerial … agency costs in a multi-layer hierarchy. The model predicts that bureaucracy increases with the frequency of managerial … turnover, and it establishes a link between bureaucracy, incentive schemes, and leverage in a cross-section of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762815
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Bureaucrats or Politicians?
Alesina, Alberto F.; Tabellini, Guido - 2021
Policies are typically chosen by politicians and bureaucrats. This paper investigates the e fficiency criteria for allocating policy tasks to elected policymakers (politicians) or non elected bureaucrats. Politicians are more efficient for tasks that do not involve too much specific technical...
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The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions : Results from the H&R Block Fafsa Experiment
Bettinger, Eric - 2010
Growing concerns about low awareness and take-up rates for government support programs like college financial aid have spurred calls to simplify the application process and enhance visibility. This project examines the effects of two experimental treatments designed to test of the importance of...
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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations : A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Bandiera, Oriana - 2020
illustrate that organizational design and anti-corruption policies must balance agency issues at different levels of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841922
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Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States
Acemoglu, Daron - 2006
they may further expand the size of bureaucracy so as to gain additional votes. The model shows that an equilibrium with an …
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Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness
Best, Michael - 2017
How important are bureaucrats for the productivity of the state? And to what extent do the tradeoffs between different policies depend on the implementing bureaucrats' effectiveness? Using data on 16million public procurement purchases in Russia during 2011–2016, we show that over 40 percent...
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