Civil service, 2017

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

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Is a Competent Civil Service Becoming Oxymoronic?

2017 Jack Kenney Award for Outstanding Service.

On April 30, 2010, Jack Kenney retired from the ASM Journals Department after 25 years of service, for the last 13 of which he was the production editor for the Journal of Bacteriology. Over the years, Jack helped countless authors, reviewers, and editors to expedite the publication of JB papers. Because of his knowledge and sincere desire to help the microbiological community navigate the publ...

Civil Service Reform in Africa: Mixed Results After 10 Years