The scientific 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...

Overview on Civil Service Salary Systems

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Is a Competent Civil Service Becoming Oxymoronic?

Reliable Scientific Service Compositions

Distributed service oriented architectures (SOAs) are increasingly used by users, who are insufficiently skilled in the art of distributed system programming. A good example are computational scientists who build large-scale distributed systems using service-oriented Grid computing infrastructures. Computational scientists use these infrastructure to build scientific applications, which are com...

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...