Re-Socializing Civil Servants: The Transformative Powers of EU Institutions

Civil servants and politics : A delicate balance

This recently published anthology contains twelve chapters authored by various primarily European academics, who address the balance between civil servants and politicians. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which sets the scene and explains the apparent increasing tension between civil servants and politicians. The second section includes a number of country studies, chosen ...

Proposal Powers, Veto Powers, and the Design of Political Institutions

Actions, Institutions, Powers. Preliminary Notes

In this paper we analyse some logical notions relevant for representing the dynamics of institutionalised organisations. In particular, some well-known action concepts introduced in the Kanger-Lindahl-Pörn logical theory of agency are discussed and integrated. Secondly, moving from the work of Jones and Sergot, a logical characterisation is provided of the ideas of institutional links, “counts-...

Smoking Patterns in Ghanaian Civil Servants: Changes Over Three Decades

The number of smokers in developing countries is expected to increase as markets in high income countries begin to decline and multinational tobacco companies shift their marketing efforts to lower income countries. We determined the prevalence and distribution of smoking in a cross-sectional study of 1,015 urban civil servants in Accra, Ghana (82.7% participation rate) in 2006. The results wer...

John Henryism and blood pressure among Nigerian civil servants.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Among urban Nigerian civil servants, higher socioeconomic status is related to increased blood pressure. In the United States, the relation between increased blood pressure and low socioeconomic status or low level of education has been found to be potentiated by high effort active coping (John Henryism) among African-Americans. Thus, the potentiating effect of high effort activ...