Speaker and round-table panellist at the WeBER 3.0 Regional Public Administration Reform Platform Meeting in Skopje. Discussions focused on how citizen engagement and staff feedback mechanisms can drive administrative professionalisation in the Western Balkans.
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Our paper ‘Does Political Corruption Reduce Prosocial Behaviour by Bureaucrats? Lab Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh‘ has been published in Governance. The study – co-authored with Eleanor Woodhouse, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Christian Schuster, Kazi Maruful Islam, and Taiabur Rahman – uses experimental data to…
Continue ReadingPresentation of ReSPA Survey Findings in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Presented results from the ReSPA Staff Satisfaction Surveys to the Serbian Human Resources Management Service and to civil service agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the Federation and Republika Srpska. Meetings also involved HR networks and communities of practice to…
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Keynote presentation at the joint Ministerial Conference on ‘Innovative HRM for Public Administration of the Future’ organised by the Government of Slovenia, the Ministry of Public Administration, and ReSPA. I presented the results of the ReSPA Staff Satisfaction Surveys in the Western Balkans and…
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Delivered an invited seminar in the Colloquium Series of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford on the topic ‘Can Ethics Training Enhance Government Integrity?‘ The seminar discussed evidence from our field experiment in Bangladesh.
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Publication of our article ‘Does Citizen Participation Make Public Servants More Satisfied with Their Jobs? It Depends on Whether They Are Spectators or Participants‘ in Public Administration and Development 43(5): 381–392. Co-authored with Kazi Maruful Islam, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Taiabur Rahman and Christian…
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Kick-off meeting of the COST Action CoReX ‘Executive Triangle in Europe‘. On 25 October, the Management Committee met for the first time in Brussels to elect the Action Chair Thurid Hustedt (Hertie School of Governance), Co-Chair Tobias Bach (Oslo University)…
Continue ReadingECPR General Conference, Prague
This was my first ECPR conference since the COVID-19 pandemic. Fantastic to see so many colleagues, listen to great papers and spend some time together to catch up. Petr Kopecky, Maria Spirova, Fanni Toth and I presented our work on…
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Very productive week in Dhaka. Together with colleagues Taiabur Rahman, Kazi Maruful Islam and Krishna Kumar Saha we presented the results of the ethical leadership training with police officers in Bangladesh to the Headquarters of Bangladesh Police, the Police Staff…
Continue ReadingReSPA Workshop on Merit Recruitment and Performance Appraisal in the Western Balkans
From 15 – 18 November 2021, the ReSPA Working Group on Human Resources Management and Development in the Public Sector in the Western Balkans met in Tirana for a Workshop on Merit Recruitment and Performance Appraisal. It was the first…
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