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We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...
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We examine the power of incentives in bureaucracies by studying contracts offered by a bureaucrat to her agent. The bureaucrat operates under a fixed budget, optimally chosen by a funding authority, and she can engage in policy drift, which we define as inversely related to her intrinsic...
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We examine the power of incentives in bureaucracies by studying contracts offered by a bureaucrat to her agent. The bureaucrat operates under a fixed budget, optimally chosen by a funding authority, and she can engage in policy drift, which we define as inversely related to her intrinsic...
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bureaucracy. The natures of, and connection between, a political administration and its bureaucracy is important if one is … blueprint model of a bureaucracy comes from Weber, seen to be a servicing body for the implementation of political policy … underpinned by a firm conceptual basis of a bureaucracy that confronts that of Weber. This paper explores the nature of …
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