A5030109001- Public Policy and Administration Research
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Public-Private Partnership Projects
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces
- Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Public Policy and Governance
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Electromagnetic Compatibility and Measurements
- Mining and Resource Management
- Public Procurement and Policy
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Agricultural risk and resilience
Universität Hamburg
2007-2024
Hamburg University of Technology
2007-2024
University College London
2016-2024
Stanford University
2023
Davidson College
2023
University of Nottingham
2023
Roskilde University
2023
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2013-2017
Inter-American Development Bank
2016
Columbia University
2016
Responding to COVID-19 presents unprecedented challenges for public sector practitioners. Addressing those requires knowledge about the problems that workers face. This Viewpoint essay argues timely, up-to-date surveys of are essential tools identifying problems, resolving bottlenecks, and enabling operate effectively during in response posed by pandemic. Survey Public Servants, which is currently being rolled out several countries Global Servants Consortium assist governments strategically...
Bureaucratic behavior in developing countries remains poorly understood. Why do some public servants—yet not others—work hard to deliver services, misuse state resources, and/or participate electoral mobilization? A classic answer comes from Weber: structures shift toward integrity, neutrality, and commitment service. Our study conducts the first survey experimental test of effects bureaucratic structures. It does so through a conjoint experiment with servants Dominican Republic. Looking at...
Abstract This Research Note presents a new dataset of party patronage in 22 countries from five regions. The data was collected using the same methodology to compare patterns within countries, across and world regions that are usually studied separately. addresses three research questions at centre debates on patronage, which is understood as power political parties make appointments public semi‐public sector: scope underlying motivations criteria basis appointees selected. exploration shows...
Public service motivation (PSM) and ethical behavior are central concerns in public administration. Yet, experimental evidence on the causes of causal effects PSM remains scarce, curtailing our understanding both. This article draws a novel survey design to improve this understanding. The is based simple insight: asking about can render salient PSM-oriented identities respondents. By randomizing order outcome questions, may be exogenously activated among respondents, activation assessed....
Numerous studies have linked a range of economic, social, and institutional variables with corruption in government. Yet, most this literature overlooks the management public officials themselves. This is relevant omission: almost all corrupt exchanges involve officials. article reviews studies—36 total—that do address civil service anti‐corruption. It finds that prior works assess narrow set structures. Meritocratic recruitment and, less robustly, pay levels been associated lower...
Abstract Democratic backsliding has multiplied “unprincipled” political principals: governments with weak commitment to the public interest. Why do some bureaucrats engage in voice and guerrilla sabotage thwart policies against interest under “unprincipled principals,” yet others not? Despite its centrality contemporary governance, this conundrum not seen quantitative research. We address gap survey evidence from 1,700 Brazilian servants during Temer Presidency, widely perceived lack...
Abstract Do management practices have similar anticorruption effects in OECD and developing countries? Despite prominent cautions against “New Zealand” reforms which enhance managerial discretion countries, scholars not assessed this question statistically. Our article addresses gap through a conjoint experiment with 6,500 public servants three countries one country. assesses Weberian relative to approaches recruitment, job stability, pay. We argue that institutionalized corruption weak rule...
Many studies have addressed the challenge of heat stress for human health in recent years. However, appropriate concepts and methods quantifying heat-stress hazards, vulnerabilities risks are yet under development. The objective this study is to test applicability a risk concept associated event-based risk-analysis method related mortality. reveals that about 5 % all deaths between 2001 2010 Berlin can statistically be elevated air temperatures. Most affected people 65 years or older, while...
The transcription factor STAT5 (signal transducer and activator of 5) is frequently activated in hematological malignancies represents an essential signaling node downstream the BCR-ABL oncogene. can be phosphorylated at three positions, on a tyrosine two serines S725 S779. We have investigated importance serine phosphorylation for BCR-ABL-induced leukemogenesis. In cultured bone marrow cells, expression mutant lacking S779 sites (STAT5SASA) prohibits transformation induces apoptosis....
Extreme heat has tremendous adverse effects on human health. Heat stress is expected to further increase due urbanization, an aging population, and global warming. Previous research identified correlations between extreme mortality. However, the underlying physical, behavioral, environmental, social risk factors remain largely unknown comprehensive quantitative investigation individual level lacking. We conducted a new cross-sectional household questionnaire survey analyze impairment...
Abstract Since the onset of Great Recession, “doing more with less” has become a policy mantra. To do less, range governments have concurrently imposed wage cuts and greater work demands on public employees. This article assesses impact these changes job satisfaction motivation employees in 34 European countries. Congruent previous studies linking income working hours attitudes, finds negative both. There are no free austerity lunches: while may longer for lower pay, they less satisfied...
Accurate knowledge about societal conditions and public policies is an important good in any polity, yet governments across the world differ dramatically extent to which they collect publish such knowledge. This article develops tests argument that this variation some can be traced degree of bureaucratic politicization a polity. A politicized bureaucracy offers politicians greater opportunities demand from bureaucrats—and raises incentives for bureaucrats supply—public policy strategically...
Abstract How can governments manage civil servants to enhance public service motivation (PSM)? Despite the centrality of PSM in administration research, effects management practices on remain understudied. We address this gap through a conjoint experiment with 7,300 five countries Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Our assesses two practices: merit‐based competitions for recruitment versus discretionary appointments; permanent tenure temporary job contracts. find that merit are...
Public service motivation (PSM) is a core concept in public administration, studied surveys across numerous countries. Whether these studies accumulate comparable knowledge about PSM crucially depends on measurement invariance: that has similar structure different national contexts. Yet, large-scale cross-country research to address this conundrum remains scant. Drawing an original survey of 23,000 servants ten countries Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, our paper addresses...
Much progress has been made in the use of computational electromagnetics for analysis electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) problems during recent years. This paper reviews improvements some most important techniques field: method moments, finite-difference time-domain method, finite-element transmission-line matrix and partial-element equivalent-circuit method. The results computer codes on basis such methods have to be validated, respective possibilities are addressed.
Abstract Education is at the center of theories how bureaucracies professionalize. Going back to Weber, process toward a capable and professional bureaucracy has been viewed as driven by entry well‐educated, recruits. We argue that this perspective misses important dynamics within professionalizing bureaucracies—in particular, bureaucrats inside government react when Building on insight, we incumbent face incentives acquire greater expertise educated entrants arrive, in order remain...
Abstract How does contracting out affect service performance? Evidence to date is mixed. We argue that this partially due prior studies focusing often on whether—not how—services are contracted. Yet, how services contracted matters. In particular, we whether users pay user fees for contractors affects efficiency. Where they do, contractor revenue depends satisfaction and face incentives provide quality retain revenue. Where, by contrast, governments fund services, information asymmetry about...
Aberrant activation of the JAK-STAT pathway has been implicated in tumor formation; for example, constitutive JAK2 kinase or enforced expression STAT5 induces leukemia mice. We show here that Janus TYK2 serves an opposite function. Mice deficient developed Abelson-induced B lymphoid leukemia/lymphoma as well TEL-JAK2–induced T with a higher incidence and shortened latency compared WT controls. The cell-autonomous properties Abelson murine virus–transformed (A-MuLV–transformed) TYK2–/– cells...
Aberrant activation of the JAK-STAT pathway has been implicated in tumor formation; for example, constitutive JAK2 kinase or enforced expression STAT5 induces leukemia mice. We show here that Janus TYK2 serves an opposite function. Mice deficient developed Abelson-induced B lymphoid leukemia/lymphoma as well TEL-JAK2–induced T with a higher incidence and shortened latency compared WT controls. The cell-autonomous properties Abelson murine virus–transformed (A-MuLV–transformed) TYK2–/– cells...
edited by Petr Kopecký, Peter Mair and Maria Spirova, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, xvi + 415 pp., £60.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-19-959937-0 Thanks to a Herculean data collection effort, ...