In den Bundesministerien ist eine massive Stellenmehrung zu verzeichnen. Während die Zahl der Planstellen für Beamte im Jahr 2013 noch bei rund 15.000 lag, ist sie seither um 47 Prozent auf mehr als 22.000 angestiegen. Dabei wurden die zusätzlichen Stellen überwiegend in den oberen und...

Trotz jahrzehntelanger Bemühungen zahlreicher Bundes- und Landesregierungen ist in Deutschland kein wirksamer nachhaltiger Bürokratieabbau gelungen. Vielmehr ist in den letzten Jahren eine deutliche Steigerung der Belastung von Unternehmen zu verzeichnen. Die Glaubwürdigkeit politischer...

Organizational bureaucratic responsiveness, the readiness and ability of public organizations to respond to public needs, in particular in times of change, requires collaborations between public organizations and citizens and responsiveness to citizens' evolving needs. One of the organizational...

We draw intuitions from the systemic perspective of innovation to develop and test a conceptual model aimed at examining the various factors capable of infuencing the novelty of innovations within frms in Visegrad countries. The empirical results based on the analyses of about 2,132 frms...

Wie ist das Verhältnis der Unternehmen zur öffentlichen Verwaltung in Deutschland? Für den "Jahresmonitor" hat das ifo Institut dazu fast 1800 Unternehmen befragt, davon rund 1400 Familienunternehmen verschiedenster Größe und Branchen. 57 Familienunternehmen in der Umfrage gehören den so...

Deutschland auf dem langen Weg zu smarter Regulierung. Als Wirtschaftsstandort hat Deutschland in den letzten Jahren kontinuierlich an Attraktivität verloren. War das Land aus Unternehmenssicht seit jeher ein Standort mit hohen Steuern und Arbeitskosten, so hat sich der Kostennachteil bei den...

This research note sets out to draw up a research agenda on the role of passive representation and intersectionality for perceived bureaucratic discrimination, emphasizing the need to open the discussion on how to model intersectionality and improve the measurement of subjective discrimination....

This paper investigates whether elite interconnections contribute to unethical behavior. It aims to present a clear explanation of how these connections are established, analyze the presence of unethical conduct within them, and assess their impact on the economy and societal welfare. This paper...

There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with bureaucrat parents and those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how counter-corruption endeavors affect inequality in bureaucratic...

This study critically examines the impact of international sanctions on bureaucratic quality in 74 developing countries from 1990 to 2020, highlighting how global governance mechanisms influence domestic institutional capacities. By focusing on the interaction between sanctions and economic...

The incidence of patronage can vary widely across levels of government within a country. We present evidence of this in the context of Brazil, which has been the focus of most recent research on patronage. In particular, we find that bureaucratic turnover follows political cycles among municipal...

We identify the causal effect of career incentives on bureaucrat performance by exploiting the ex ante competitiveness of promotions. Using detailed data on the career histories of top bureaucrats in all Chinese prefectures between 1996 and 2014, we show that bureaucrats with fewer competitors...

State violence inflicts obvious direct costs on citizens, but its more significant consequences may be indirect. Building on the literature on agency problems in authoritarian regimes, we argue that coercion against bureaucrats motivates them to pursue over-zealous goals at the expense of wider...

We show including quantitative environmental targets for bureaucratic promotion incentivizes government officials to enforce environmental regulation but at significant economic costs. Taking advantage of the gradual expansion of China’s water quality performance review (WQPR) over time and...

Why would a strong authoritarian state choose not to enforce its own policy? We extend the theory of forbearance to the authoritarian context and incorporate both the supply and demand sides in our theoretical framework. In the context of China's modern social insurance system, we argue that the...

Over the past 30 years, Latin American countries have experienced an accelerated prison expansion, surpassing U.S. prison growth in the last decade. The literature explaining the Latin American prison boom has developed two theories around this phenomenon, the neoliberal theory and the state...