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Incentives and influence activities in the public sector : the trade-off in performance budgeting and conditional grants

Bischoff, Ivo; Blaeschke, Frédéric - 2013 - This version: March 15, 2013

-seeking ; bureaucracy ; public-sector production ; conditional grants ; opportunistic government …

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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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Non-profit organizations in a bureaucratic environment

Grout, Paul A.; Schnedler, Wendelin - 2008

How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health trust), where workers care about the result of their work, and a bu- reaucrat, who supplies some...

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Helping hand or grabbing hand? : state bureaucracy and privatization effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - 2009

effects, we examine the relationship between state bureaucracy and the impact of privatization on firm productivity. We find … is driven by the impact of bureaucracy on the post-privatization business environment, with better institutional support … and less corruption when bureaucracies are large. -- Privatization ; bureaucracy ; economic reform ; Russia …

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Chinese Bureaucrats’ Discretion - An Economic Explanation for Law-Based Administration

Li, Shiqiang - 2011

Since 1949 to the late of 1990s, Chinese society as well as the politicians' preference has been in drastic change. By delegating administrative discretion to bureaucrats of high ability, allowing whom to choose actions freely according to social environment, politicians' targets were achieved....

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Soldiers or Bureaucrats? Conflict and the Military's Role in Policy-Making

Leon, Gabriel - 2010

One of the most striking institutional features of many less developed countries is that their militaries are closely involved in policy-making, potentially having a large impact on economic outcomes. This paper examines the role of the military in setting policy. For this purpose it develops...

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The One and the Many : Bipartisan Leadership as Second-Best Bureaucracy

Keckler, Charles N. W. - 2020

How should the Supreme Court resolve, in its forthcoming Seila Law decision on the permissibility of single-headed independent agencies, the split between en banc decisions in the Fifth Circuit and D.C. Circuit? Although the Court will likely (and I argue, correctly) extend its 2010 Free...

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Corruption and Bureaucratic Structure in a Developing Economy

Bennett, John - 2007

's bureaucracy, which can be centralized or decentralized, and characterize the quot;corruptibilityquot; of bureaucrats in each case …

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Intergovernmental Grants and Bureaucratic Power

Dahlberg, Matz - 2008

In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...

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The Italian Administrative System : Why a Source of Competitive Disadvantage?

Bianco, Magda - 2014

The Italian administrative system is currently perceived as one of the main obstacles to a higher growth of the productive system. We argue that some causes of this ineffectiveness are deeply rooted and date back at the unification: a missing strong administrative tradition; an (excessive)...

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