Promotion Needed to Give Motive in Civil Service

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...

Affirmative action needed to give women fair shot at research chairs?

Recent Amendments to the Civil Service Retirement Act

* A c t u a r i a l C o n s u l t a n t , S o c i a l S e c u r i t y A d m i n i s t r a t i o n . Provision of survivor benefits under Federal old-age and survivors insurance in 1939 and under the Railroad Retirement Act in 1946 greatly strengthened and extended the protection given to wage earners and their families. The recent amendments to the Civil Service Retirement Act which, among othe...

Four Connecticut physicians: window to Civil War medicine and service.

Are alterations needed to the IP multicast service model?

Deering's model of Internet group communication, in spite of its simplicity and elegance, imposes limits on the complete development of IP multicast, due either to the profusion of contradictory requirements of applications, or to the reduced support provided by the network core for technical or economic reasons. Even if some of these difficulties may be resolved at the transport or application...