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…
Continue ReadingWorld Bank Seminar on Merit Recruitment
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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