This article addresses the relation between design of regulatory agencies and efficiency, arguing that authority concentrated to a single individual outperforms more collegial decision-making when regulated firms’ interests are aligned. The tentative explanation is leadership reduces risk for capture. argument developed from an empirical case on markets mobile fixed broadband. In market, firms ...

This article discusses Bureaucratic Reform from the Perspective of Human Rights in improving quality public services. is a process change that carried out stages, systematically, and continuously. It aims to create clean governance, services, capacity, accountability bureaucratic performance professionalism Resource Apparatus. can be seen as current condition targeted within scope Reform. There...

We analyze a model of delegation and policymaking in polities where bureaucratic capacity is low. Our analysis suggests that low bureaucratic capacity diminishes incentives for bureaucrats to comply with legislation, making it more difficult for politicians to induce bureaucrats to take actions that politicians desire. Consequently, when bureaucratic capacity is low, standard principles in the ...

Ð In the 1990s, parts of the state bureaucracy in China have been setting up new pro®tseeking, risk-taking businesses. Some of these businesses are entrepreneurial rather than rentseeking, and are an unplanned and unanticipated development in China's market-oriented economic reforms. What are the lessons of this phenomenon for the developing world? State entrepreneurialism may create problems s...

OBJECTIVE To determine how unprofessional behavior by residents is identified/ managed within residency programs, and under what conditions concerns are communicated to potential employers. STUDY DESIGN A web-based survey was emailed to 241 directors of US obstetrics and gynecology residency programs. RESULTS 141 program directors (PDs) responded (58%). 84% of PDs indicated that problems wi...

This paper analyzes the economic foundations of a one-party political regime, where the ruling bureaucracy captures rents through collective control over state property and job assignment. Stability of such a regime and the potential for endogenous institutional change are key issues in the transition to market economy and democracy in former socialist and many developing countries. Our model o...

For small involutive and integral quantaloids Q it is shown that covariant presheaves on symmetric Q-categories are equivalent to certain subalgebras of a speci c monad on the category of symmetric Q-categories. This construction is related to a weakening of the subobject classi er axiom which does not require the classi cation of all subalgebras, but only guarantees that classi able subalgebra...