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JAN-HINRIK MEYER-SAHLING

Professor of Political Science, University of Nottingham

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Political Studies Association – Annual Conference

Posted on 29 March 2021 by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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…

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WeBER 2.0: Citizens First

Posted on 27 February 2021 by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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…

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Can public servants help prevent the resource curse in African countries?

Posted on 2 February 2021 by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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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World Bank Seminar on Merit Recruitment

Posted on 26 January 2021 by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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…

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Governing Illiberal Democracies: Democratic Backsliding and the Political Appointment of Top Officials in Hungary

Posted on 11 December 2020 by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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…

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Merit Recruitment, Tenure Protections and Public Service Motivation

Posted on 10 November 2020 by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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…

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Sharing Good Practices in Merit-Based Recruitment in the Western Balkans

Posted on 2 November 2020 by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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…

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(Un)principled Principals, (un)principled Agents

Posted on 26 August 2020 by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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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