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Employee trust and performance constraints in public sector organizations
Keefer, Philip; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2022
between trust and constraints on performance is scarce. This paper analyzes self-collected data on public sector employees … from eighteen Latin American countries and Önds that individual-level trust is relevant to three types of performance … factors. First, high-trust employees are more willing to collaborate and share information with coworkers and are more …
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Can a more performance-based setting bring additional efficiency to EU cohesion policy?
Molica, Francesco; Marques Santos, Anabela; Conte, Andrea - 2023
. More specifically, the analysis explores the extent to which targets set by ERDF programmes to assess their performance are … brings valuable evidence to the emerging debate as to whether embracing a full performance-based approach making the funds …
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278945
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Bureaucrats in parliament : theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany
Brändle, Thomas; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public administration and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of bureaucrats in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003891292
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Public servants in parliament : theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany
Stutzer, Alois; Brändle, Thomas - 2009
This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public service and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of public servants in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003899064
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Political selection of public servants and parliamentary oversight
Brändle, Thomas; Stutzer, Alois - 2010
In this paper, we integrate the identity of legislators in a politico-economic analysis of parliamentary oversight whereby oversight activities depend on individual control costs and incentives. We focus on public servants selected into parliament who face a conflict of interests but also have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662480
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The interrelationship between formal and informal decentralization and its impact on sub-central governance performance : the case of Vietnam
Thanh, Thuy Vu; Zouikri, Messaoud; Deffains, Bruno - 2012 - This vers.: November 2011
Formal and informal institutions are often viewed as complements or substitutes in empirical and theoretical works. However, no evidence of complementarities or substitutes is found in our empirical analysis of the interrelation between formal and informal decentralization across 64 provinces of...
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The transaction costs perspective on costs and benefits of government regulation
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Graaf, Marc de; Nijsen, André F. - 2009
This paper explores the feasibility to extend the Standard Cost Model (SCM) for calculating the costs of government regulation by taking all transaction costs into account which stem from the principal/agent relationship between regulatory authorities and economic entities. From that perspective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377583
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Reforming the public administration : the role of crisis and the power of bureaucracy
Asatryan, Zareh; Heinemann, Friedrich; Pitlik, Hans - 2015 - This version: July, 2015
The need to balance austerity with growth policies has put government efficiency high on the economic policy agenda in Europe. Administrative reforms which boost the efficiency of the administration can alleviate the trade-off between consolidation and public service provision. Against such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300639
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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 feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...
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