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…
Continue ReadingBureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government
Fantastic news! Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Christian Schuster, Magadalena Rojas Wettig and I published our article ‘Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants’ in the journal Public Administration Review. The article…
Continue ReadingImproving the quality and professionalism of civil servants and strengthening democracy
As part of the University of Nottingham’s Vision on Research Impact the blog post on my work on civil service reform and professionalisation has just been published. It tells the story of the journey from running the first civil service…
Continue ReadingThe Long Road to Professional Civil Services in the Western Balkans
Listen to my latest podcast on ‘The Long and Winding Road to Professional Civil Services in the Western Balkans’. The podcast is part of the WeBER 2.0 Talks. Thank you to Milos Djindjic from the WeBER Team for the initiative.
Continue ReadingExit, Voice and Sabotage
Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Izabella Correa and I published our article ‘Exit, Voice, Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals’ Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. The article is based on data collected in…
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This year also the IRSPM Conference went online. Thank you to Sharon Gilad and colleagues for putting together an excellent series of panels on Behavioural Public Administration. Christian Schuster presented our paper (co-authored with Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Brigitte Seim and…
Continue ReadingThe Differential Impact of Managerial Civil Service Reform in Developing and OECD Countries
Our latest post has been published by the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Blog. The post builds on the article co-authored with Christian Schuster and Kim Sass Mikkelsen entitled ‘(Un)principled Principals and (Un)principled Agents: The Differential Effect of Managerial Civil Service…
Continue ReadingPolitical Studies Association – Annual Conference
Meeting of the PSA Specialist Group on Executive Politics and Governance. This year the PSA organised an online conference. Together with Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Brigitte Seim and Rachel Sigman, I presented our paper on Neo-Weberian Foundations of Bureaucratic…
Continue ReadingWeBER 2.0: Citizens First
Second Regional Conference on Civil Society and Public Administration Reform organised by WeBER (Western Balkans Enabling Project for Civil Society Monitoring of Public Administration Reform). The WeBER Team led by Milena Lazarevic from the Centre for European Policy presented the…
Continue ReadingCan public servants help prevent the resource curse in African countries?
The Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme published our blog post on public servants and the resource curse in Africa. The post discusses the response of public servants to the discovery of new oil and gas resources in countries such as…
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