The paper aims to identify trends in the characteristics of the number of employees and the average salary in public administration in the last two election cycles in the period 2000-2008 compared with other sectors and proposes a series of three scenarios for the evolution of salaries in public...

This paper provides a political economic analysis of policy learning. We formally argue that Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) help to secure the legacy of a policy reform, which is more valuable for incumbents in politically polarized societies. We empirically examine the derived hypotheses...

This paper is exploring the introduction and modernization of corporative governance in public institutions, specifically in the Romanian State Treasury, by standardizing the risk evaluation in audit (RBIA). The authors are considering that achieving results in the country's progress is...

In this paper we discuss the actual and civilizational role of the state and its management. The MBO and the same OECD accounts-financial models are not recommended.With an comparative analysis we conclude for the necessity of a more organics and strategic models of governance and not...

This paper analyzes Influence Peddling with interaction between human capital transfer and collusion-building aspects in a model, in which each government official regulates multiple firms simultaneously. We show that (i) there exists an optimal division rule for collusion between a sequence of...

The current work focuses on the economics of corruption, with an emphasis on the influence of internet users and press freedom on the perception of corruption. An analysis of crosssectional data obtained for 113 countries in 2010 was implemented by means of a generalized linear model involving a...

Independent authorities have a number of advantages compared to politically dependent institutions, namely because of their superior specific qualification and performace, long-run incentive structure, influence of interest groups being less effective, and other reasons. Concerns are often...

Income Tax and National Insurance are now sufficiently similar that merging them appears to be a plausible option, yet still sufficiently different that integration raises significant difficulties. This paper surveys the potential benefits of integration – increased transparency and reduced...

Governance indicators are now widely used as tools for conducting development dialogue, allocating external assistance and influencing foreign direct investment. This paper argues that available governance indicators are not suitable for these purposes as they do not conceptualize governance and...

Modernity is usually thought as a complex society with clearly differentiated spheres of everyday life. It means, in particular, that economic rules do not interfere with the norms structuring political, social, scientific and other interactions. The complex, differentiated society sharply...