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When the victor cannot claim the spoils : institutional incentives for professionalizing patronage states

Schuster, Christian - 2016

Merit-based selection of bureaucrats is central to state capacity building, yet rare in developing countries. Most executives instead favor patronage -political discretion- in public employment. This paper proposes and tests an original theory to explain when executives forsake patronage for...

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Do civil servants respond to behavioral interventions? : a field experiment

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Zamora, Paula - 2021

Introducing financial incentives to increase productivity in the public sector tends to be politically and bureaucratically cumbersome, particularly in developing countries. Behavioral interventions could be a low-cost alternative, both politically and financially, although evidence of their...

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The importance of clarity : impacts of Colombia's Lenguaje Claro Program on reducing administrative burdens

Cuesta, Ana; Reyes, Angela; Roseth, Benjamin - 2019

Citizens confront multiple challenges when attempting to access public services. This article focuses on an aspect yet unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies in Latin America. It presents an impact...

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Democracy, property rights, income equality, and corruption

Bin Dong; Torgler, Benno - 2011

This paper presents theoretical and empirical evidence on the nexus between corruption and democracy. We establish a … political economy model where the effect of democracy on corruption is conditional on income distribution and property rights … equality which shows that corruption is a nonlinear function of these variables. The results indicate that democracy will work …

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Political institutions and street protests in Latin America

Machado, Fabiana; Scartascini, Carlos G.; Tommasi, Mariano - 2009

This paper argues that where institutions are strong, actors are more likely to participate in the political process through institutionalized arenas, while where they are weak, protests and other unconventional means of participation become more appealing. This relationship is explored...

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Bureaucracy vs. democracy : examining the bureaucratic causes of public failure, economic repression, and voter alienation

Howard, Philip K. - 2019

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The political economy of privatization : why do governments want reforms?

Börner, Kira Astrid - 2004

International organizations promote privatization as precondition for economic development. But is there really too little privatization? This political economy model asks for the incentives of governments to privatize or restructure a state-owned firm. Different government types are compared to...

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The missing shock : the macroeconomic impact of British privatisation

Florio, Massimo; Grasseni, Mara - 2004

The privatisation policy pursued in the UK by Mrs Thatcher's government (1979-1990) and subsequently by Mr Major's government (1990-1997) was the largest experiment in public divestitures among capitalist economies. It had a deep impact on economic policy-making world wide, and was vastly...

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An evaluation of overseas oil investment projects under uncertainty using a real options based simulation model

Zhu, Lei; Zhang, ZhongXiang; Fan, Ying - 2011

This paper applies real options theory to establish an overseas oil investment evaluation model that is based on Monte Carlo simulation and is solved by the Least Squares Monte-Carlo method. To better reflect the reality of overseas oil investment, our model has incorporated not only the...

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The impact of agricultural extension for improved management practices : an evaluation of the Uruguayan livestock program

Maffioli, Alessandro; Muffally, Conner - 2014

Management is an important input into agricultural production, as it a determinant of the uptake and proper implementation of productive technologies and practices. While there is a large literature on evaluations of extension programs meant to improve management practices in agricultural...

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