Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen and I presented at the World Bank’s Global Governance Practice Webinar on Merit Recruitment. It provided an opportunity to present findings from our British Academy DfID project on civil service reform and anti-corruption in developing…
Continue ReadingGoverning Illiberal Democracies: Democratic Backsliding and the Political Appointment of Top Officials in Hungary
Fanni Toth (Loughborough) and I published our article on ‘Democratic Backsliding and Political Appointments in Hungary’. The article of part of a special issue on Top Officials in Turbulent Times’ that I have co-edited with Tobias Bach (Oslo) and Katarina…
Continue ReadingMerit Recruitment, Tenure Protections and Public Service Motivation
Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen and I published our article ‘Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe’ in Public Administration. The article is…
Continue ReadingSharing Good Practices in Merit-Based Recruitment in the Western Balkans
I presented at the online workshop of the Regional School of Public Administration (ReSPA) on ‘Sharing good practices in merit-based recruitment in the Western Balkans’. Ranka Bartula-Musikic (ReSPA) and I prepared the workshop programme. My own presentation focused on the…
Continue Reading(Un)principled Principals, (un)principled Agents
Christian Schuster, Kim Sass Mikkelsen and I published our article ‘(Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries’ in Governance. The article is based on the research we conducted…
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