The Civil Service İn Turkey

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?

Managing Ethnically Diverse Bureaucrats: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service

We document the correlations between public service delivery, management practices, and the ethnic diversity of bureaucrats. We do so in the context of Nigeria, where ethnicity is a salient form of identity. We thus expand the empirical management literature highlighting bene...cial e¤ects of workplace diversity, that has focused on private sector ...rms operating in high income settings. Our a...

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...