In this paper we investigate how “civil service” systems of public personnel management interact with bureaucratic discretion to create expert bureaucracies populated by policy-motivated agents. We build a model in which bureaucrats may invest in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and may be either policy-motivated or policy-indifferent. We argue that under specific conditions on the nat...

In contribution to current debates on the changing roles and responsibilities of civil society in welfare state arrangements, I examined the participation of various types of civil society organizations in national welfare policymaking in Sweden between 1958 and 2012. Drawing upon an extensive dataset of over 1400 civil society, state, and for-profit organizations, I tested three claims related...

led him to investigate a wide variety of topics with an analytical and practical focus, and to publish his results. In Spanish he published a dozen studies about different aspects of the storage of blood, and in 1937 he published in English in the The Lancet the method he had developed in Barcelona. This interest never diminished throughout his life. Indeed, his last study was published in the ...

This paper presents a new method for the fast development of call-routing systems based on pre-existing corpora and knowledge databases. This method pushes forward the reduction of specific data collection and annotation for developing a new call-classification system. No specific data collection is needed for training both for the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and classification models. T...

Since the early 1990s, Malawi has tried to undertake economic reforms, including the restructuring of the public sector, even as it embraced democratic reforms. Paucity of human and financial resources has made the process difficult and drawn out. However, towards the end of the 1990s, the reforms began to bear fruit. Notably, the efficiency of the civil service improved, while the government c...