Civil service, 2015

Civil Service and Patronage in Bureaucracies∗

We develop a model of government personnel policy with electoral competition in an effort to understand when high quality bureaucracies will be created and sustained. In the model, two parties compete for office over an infinite horizon, and politicians in office choose a mix between civil servants (who produce public goods in a good bureaucracy) and patronage appointees (who produce private go...

Overview on Civil Service Salary Systems

The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the OECD and its Member countries or of the beneficiary

Is a Competent Civil Service Becoming Oxymoronic?

NASPGHAN 2015 Distinguished Service Award.

Cop accepted J School of and repri ins Scho mi.edu). uropean S rition and patology, a 00000000 athleen ‘‘Kay’’ J. Motil, MD, PhD, embodies the K spirit of the NASPGHAN Distinguished Service award. She has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of the children and built a distinguished career within the realm of pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition. She completed her undergraduate education ...

Editorial: Service Computing in 2015

AS we enter 2015, I have some very exciting news. First, with IEEE CS Publication Board approval, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC) will become a bi-monthly journal and publish every two months and six issues annually, instead the current quarterly publications. Second, in response to the growing community of researchers and practitioners, including both authors and readers, TSC edit...