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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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Making the Politician and the Bureaucrat Deliver : Employment Guarantee in India

Goyal, Ashima - 2005

The paper examines the division of tasks required between politicians and bureaucrats to run an effective rural employment guarantee scheme (EGS) in India, in the context of Indian history and habits. There are still weaknesses in the incentive structure of the new nationwide EGS. First, there...

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'Public Service Motivation' as an Argument for Government Provision

Francois, Patrick - 2001

bureaucracy can better obtain PSM motivated effort from employees than a standard profit maximizing firm. The model also provides …

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Quitting in Protest : Presidential Policymaking and Civil Service Response

Cameron, Charles M.; de Figueiredo, John M. - 2020

We formally model the impact of presidential policymaking on the willingness of bureaucrats to exert effort and stay in the government. In the model, centralized policy initiative by the president demotivates policy-oriented bureaucrats and can impel them to quit rather than implicate themselves...

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Decentralization and Political Control of the Bureaucracy

Whitford, Andrew B. - 2005

In contrast to principal-agency theory, the possibility of the political control of the bureaucracy depends on …

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

Leon, Gabriel - 2010

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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials

Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023 - This version: December 6, 2022

While effective bureaucracy is crucial for state capacity, its decision-making remains a black box. We elicit …

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The Quality of Bureaucracy and Public Sector Performance. Albania’s Case

Balla, Fiona - 2021

quality of bureaucracy is endorsed by studies as well as analyses of important international institutions. Albania is relevant … evaluating the quality of bureaucracy. The result of this study refers to determining the relation between the quality of … bureaucracy and public sector performance. La performance du secteur public est de plus en plus présente dans la littérature …

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