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Does federalism affect e-government in Germany?

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023

International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired … orientation. In order to provide better and faster public services in Germany, the Online Access Act was introduced in 2017, which … 2022. However, this deadline has not been met. This study suggests that Germany's federal political structure is …

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Negative returns : U.S. military policy and anti-American terrorism

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2017

We investigate the effect of U.S. military aid and U.S. troop deployments on anti-American terrorism, using a sample of 106 countries between 1986 and 2011. We find that greater military commitment leads to more anti-American terrorism. We study the underlying mechanisms using a mediation...

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Paying them to hate US : the effect of U.S. military aid on anti-American terrorism, 1968-2014

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2020

Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data on 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, our paper is the first to provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military...

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The risks of nation-building through military aid and intervention

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022

This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...

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Political accountability and real authority of government bureaucracy

Dodlova, Marina - 2013

bureaucracy rather than to an autocratic leader. We combine the Aghion-Tirole definition of formal and real authority with the …

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Contracts offered by bureaucrats

Khalil, Fahad; Kim, Doyoung; Lawarrée, Jacques - 2013

We examine the power of incentives in bureaucracies by studying contracts offered by a bureaucrat to her agent. The bureaucrat operates under a fixed budget, optimally chosen by a funding authority, and she can engage in policy drift, which we define as inversely related to her intrinsic...

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Contests among bureaucrats

Bös, Dieter - 2002

This paper deals with double lobbying: several bureaucrats participate in joint lobbying to get a high total departmental budget, but they also engage in antagonistic lobbying to reap as high a share of the total budget as possible. The antagonistic lobbying constitutes a contest among the...

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Delegation of regulation

Kundu, Tapas; Nilssen, Tore - 2017

-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts …

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A costly commitment : populism, government performance, and the quality of bureaucracy

Bellodi, Luca; Morelli, Massimo; Vannoni, Matia - 2021

We study the consequences of populism for government performance and the quality of bureaucracy. When voters lose trust …

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Political alignment and bureaucratic pay

Fiva, Jon H.; Geys, Benny; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; … - 2019

We study the private gains to bureaucrats from their political alignment with elected politicians. Whereas existing studies generally rely on proxies for politician-bureaucrat political alignment, a rare feature of our data allows measuring it directly since 27% of bureaucrats ran for political...

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