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The Samaritan bureaucracy in international transfers

Coyne, Christopher J.; Hall, Abigail R.; Alshamy, Yahya - 2026

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Stealing time : postcolonial bureaucracies and the iron cage of education

Israr, Hamza - 2026

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Organizing transgender people : toward a process-based theory of representative bureaucracy

Narendran, Roshni; Ng, Eddy S.; Almeida, Shamika - 2025

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015584384

Selection of bureaucrats under weak state capacity : evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Lee, Dongil; Mvukiyehe, Eric; Tchoupé, Christelle; … - 2026

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Discretionary procurement flexibilization, efficiency, and rent-seeking : evidence from Chile during COVID-19

Castro, Edgar; Yarygina, Anastasiya; Villalba, Matias - 2026

This paper examines the effects of increased bureaucratic discretion in public procurement during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile, when the government relaxed restrictions on direct deals and expanded discretionary authority for small contracts. While greater discretion can lower administrative...

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Editorial: bureaucracy, regulation and deregulation

Heinemann, Friedrich; Schnabl, Gunther - 2025

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A dynamic theory on clientelism and bureaucratic development

Mizuno, Nobuhiro; Okazawa, Ryosuke - 2025

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Discretion versus algorithms : bureaucrats, tax equity and acceptability

Knebelmann, Justine; Pouliquen, Victor; Sarr, Bassirou - 2026 - This version: April 24, 2026

We study how replacing bureaucrats’ discretion with algorithmic assessment affects the accuracy, equity, and public acceptance of tax decisions. Using Senegal’s first digital property tax census in the capital, we experimentally vary reliance on bureaucrats versus algorithms to value...

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Political capture and bureaucratic behavior : evidence from mafia-infiltrated municipalities

Carreri, Maria; Cipullo, Davide; Le Moglie, Marco; … - 2026

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Political capture and bureaucratic behavior : evidence from mafia-infiltrated municipalities

Carreri, Maria; Cipullo, Davide; Le Moglie, Marco; … - 2026

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The bureaucratic reputation scale : cross-country and cross-language validation

Andreeva, Anastasiia; Willems, Jurgen - 2025

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Motivation mix and agency reputation : a person-centered study of public-sector workforce composition

Ahn, Yongjin - 2025

Identifying what motivates public servants and how those motives vary across agencies is essential for both theory and practice, yet most existing "types of bureaucrats" remain untested against real workforces. Drawing on reputation theory, which posits that external audiences' beliefs shape who...

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Do not drain the swamp! : populism, bureaucracy and economic performance

Morelli, Massimo; Petrukhin, Dmitrii; Vannoni, Matia - 2026

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Ready, willing, and able? : bureaucratic capacity, slack resources and political control

Elston, Thomas; Zhang, Yuxi - 2025

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Interventions to reduce bureaucratic discrimination : a systematic review of empirical behavioural research

Thomann, Eva; James, Oliver; Deruelle, Thibaud - 2025

The reality of street-level discretion can entail discrimination against people based on their identifiable characteristics. However, there has been surprisingly little systematic assessment of empirical evidence about what can be done to tackle the problem. This paper systematically reviews...

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Workload and bureaucratic disentitlement : evidence from public assistance in Japan

Hayashi, Masayoshi - 2025

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Active representation and identity taxation : unintended outcome of representative labour?

Johnston, Karen; Yarrow, Emily - 2024

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Bureaucracy in quest of feasibility

Crès, Hervé; Gilboa, Itzhak; Vieille, Nicolas - 2024

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Bureaucracy in quest of feasibility

Crès, Hervé; Gilboa, Itzhak; Vieille, Nicolas - 2025

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Bureaucracy in quest of feasibility

Crès, Hervé; Gilboa, Itzhak; Vieille, Nicolas - 2025

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The networked bureaucracy : reinventing formalization in the context of collaborative governance

Kanon, Miranda - 2024

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Organizational overlap and bureaucratic actors : how EU-NATO relations empower the European Commission

Hoeffler, Cathérine; Hofmann, Stephanie - 2024

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Trust and policy capacity : strategic bureaucrat appointments under electoral incentives

Sisak, Dana; Swank, Otto H. - 2025 - Date: October 17, 2025

We investigate the determinants of states' policy capacity, defined as the ability of states to craft effective policies. Our model shows that the interaction between politicians' implementation decisions and bureaucrats' motivation to design effective policies can lead to the coexistence of...

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Turnover, morale, and performance in bureaucracies : evidence from Indonesian villages

Bazzi, Samuel; Hilmy, Masyhur; Marx, Benjamin M.; … - 2024 - Preliminary draft: May 2024

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Bureaucratic turnover across levels of government

Brassiolo, Pablo; Estrada, Ricardo; Fajardo, Gustavo - 2024

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...

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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials

Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2024

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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials

Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2023 - This version: December 6, 2022

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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials

Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2021 - This version: March 25, 2021

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What are the priorities of bureaucrats? : evidence from conjoint experiments with procurement officials

Tukiainen, Janne; Blesse, Sebastian; Bohne, Albrecht; … - 2021 - This version: March 25, 2021

Edition: This version: March 25, 2021

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More than a digital system : how AI is changing the role of bureaucrats in different organizational contexts

Giest, Sarah N.; Klievink, Bram - 2024

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Modelling the effect of passive representation and intersectionality on perceived bureaucratic discrimination

Thomann, Eva; Hjort Rapp, Carolin; Ziegler, Katharina; … - 2024

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....

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Does bureaucracy diminish inclusion? : evidence from a county government

DeHart-Davis, Leisha; Dickerson, Kimalee; Jiang, Zhongnan - 2023

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Stupid rules : reducing red tape and making organizations more effective and accountable

Hamilton-Hart, Natasha - 2026

Our lives are imbued with rules and regulations, some of which are vital and sensible, but others are simply stupid. Natasha Hamilton-Hart navigates the rules maze and challenges us to consider how effective some rules are, and whether we would be better off resorting to the exercise of authority.

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Understanding data professionals in the police : a qualitative study of system-level bureaucrats

Fest, Isabelle; Schäfer, Mirko Tobias; Dijck, José van; … - 2023

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The Economics of Civil Service Protections

Xu, Guo - 2026

The study of bureaucracy as a key dimension of state capacity has gained increasing attention in economics. What organizational features create an effective bureaucracy, however, remains subject to debate. This paper focuses on the central role of civil service protections in delineating the...

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Ideology and performance in public organizations

Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Teso, Edoardo; Xu, Guo - 2023

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The role of bureaucratic incentives in the effectiveness of environmental regulations : evidence from China

Yu, Haowei; Zhang, Guanglai; Zhang, Ning - 2025

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Bureaucratic frictions and innovation procurement

Giuffrida, Leonardo M.; Raiteri, Emilio - 2023

Is work overload a friction to public agencies? Using data on R&D procurements, patents, and contracting units from a US federal agency, we investigate how officer workload impacts innovation procurement outcomes. Unanticipated retirement shifts provide an exogenous source of variation that we...

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Pay-for-performance, job attraction, and the prospects of bureaucratic representation in public organizations : evidence from a conjoint experiment

Pedersen, Mogens Jin; Favero, Nathan; Park, Joohyung - 2025

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Effects of red tape on business and economic development : red tape survey

Martes, Reggie - 2023

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Lost economic output due to high bureaucratic burden : the case for Germany

Pfaffl, Christian; Guo, Yuchen; Falck, Oliver - 2025

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Quantifying the impact of red tape on investment : a survey data approach

Pellegrino, Bruno; Zheng, Geoffery - 2024

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Quantifying the impact of red tape on investment : a survey data approach

Pellegrino, Bruno; Zheng, Geoffery - 2023

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Innovation and government bureaucracy

Kanwar, Sunil - 2025

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Innovation and government bureaucracy

Kanwar, Sunil - 2022

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Digging deeper into the state-democracy nexus : the role of civic participation in fostering impartial bureaucracy

Vaccaro, Andrea - 2023

The growing body of research on the relationship between the state and democracy has remained inconclusive both in terms of causal direction and sign. One key factor contributing to this inconclusiveness is the lack of precision in the conceptualization and measurement of democracy and state...

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Quantifying the impact of red tape on investment : a survey date approach

Pellegrino, Bruno; Zheng, Geoffery - 2023

An important strand of research in macro-finance investigates which factors impede enterprise investment, and what is their aggregate economic cost. In this paper, we make two contributions to this literature. The first contribution is methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate...

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