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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535755
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457360
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Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus : the role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy
Vaccaro, Andrea - 2023
attributes of democracy and state capacity-namely, civic participation and impartial bureaucracy-my study provides new evidence …The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in … conceptualization and measurement of democracy and state capacity. Drawing on this argument, my study takes an original approach to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314738
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Economic integration and state capacity
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - In: Journal of institutional economics 15 (2019) 3, pp. 449-468
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Political selection and bureaucratic productivity
Habyarimana, James Paul; Khemani, Stuti; Scot, Thiago - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012002630
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Economic integration and state capacity : evidence from the Eastern enlargement of the European Union
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018
: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905008
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Erosion of state power, corruption control, and political stability
Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - 2020
How do corruption and the state apparatus interact, and how are they connected to the political and economic dimensions of state capacity? Motivated by historians' analysis of powerful empires, we build a model that emphasizes the corrosive effect of corruption on state power. Under general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170537
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State capacity and economic growth : cautionary tales from history
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - In: National Institute economic review : journal of the … 262 (2022), pp. 28-50
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342215
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Beyond state capacity : bureaucratic performance, policy implementation and reform
Williams, Martin J. - In: Journal of institutional economics 17 (2021) 2, pp. 339-357
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012437073
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The royal consultants : the intendants of France and the bureaucratic transition in pre-modern Europe
Sasaki, Yu - In: Journal of historical political economy : JHPE 1 (2021) 2, pp. 259-282
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