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Social Protection Strategies in Efficient and Inefficient States
(2009-12)
It is well known that social and labor market policies vary greatly among the advanced industrialized countries, not just in terms of overall spending but also in terms of the allocation of resources across different ...
Careers, Connections and Corruption Risks in Europe
(2015-04)
Why do officials in some countries favor entrenched contractors while others assign public con-tracts more impartially? According to the research, such variation responds to differences in political institutions, economic ...
The Politics of Political Appointments
(2015-02)
By manipulating the screening and selection of executive bureaucrats, political leaders can indirectly
control the policy preferences that are carried out and enforced within a polity. In this article, we
argue that ...
The Quality of Government Expert Survey 2020 (Wave III): Report
(2021)
The Quality of Government Expert Survey (QoG Expert Survey) is a research project aimed at documenting the organizational design of public bureaucracies and bureaucratic behavior in countries around the world. This report ...
The Link between Appointments and Appropriations in the Politics of Administrative Design.
(2017-04)
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between political control of agency decision-making and
the size of agency budgets. Scholars of bureaucratic and distributive politics have respectively highlighted
how political ...
No Law without a State
(2010-05)
There is a large and growing interest in the prevailing cross-country differences many
well-functioning institutions, such as judicial independence and high quality laws, and
desirable social outcomes, such as a low ...
Provider Ownership and Service Quality: Evidence from Swedish Residential Care Homes
(2021-09)
The provision of social services by private providers is widespread in OECD countries, but the jury is still out on whether marketization has improved service quality. This paper seeks to nuance existing debate by examining ...
Agency Design, Favoritism and Procurement in the United States
(2019-05)
The
U.S.
federal government spend
s
huge sums buying goods and services
from
outside
of
the public sector.
Given the sums involved, strategic government purchasing can have electoral consequences.
In this ...