Economic reconstruction typically takes place after the end of war. Yet recently, economic reconstruction has been viewed as a means to ‘win hearts and minds’ during ongoing conflict. Drawing on a variety of reconstruction experiences from Afghanistan and Iraq, we identify four ‘reconstruction traps’ that result from the incentives and constraints faced by actors involved in economic reconstruc...

This paper uses an institutional approach to investigate the relationship between the regional institutional environment and regional new firm formation. The importance of perceived attitudes regarding private enterprises, local taxes, political majority, the size of the government sector and perceived rules and bureaucracy on new firm formation in 286 Swedish municipalities are investigated. T...

Sociologist George Ritzer has written extensively on the phenomenon of ‘McDonaldization’ occurring in various facets of the American life experience, and increasingly around the world. This paper posits that the current interest in E-Government may be considered a new front in the trend towards McDonaldization, in this case the McDonaldization of government. Concepts from Ritzer's theory are us...

One of the key components in progressing a nation’s bureaucracy is by conducting research on bureaucracy. Researchers and academics have been using as variable their to assess its effectiveness how it interacts with other crucial aspects government. This paper analyzes relationship between journal publications reliable articles about Indonesia published publications, effects novelty publication...

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We describe a hybrid relational bureaucratic form with structures that embed three processes of reciprocal interrelating—relational coproduction, relational coordination, and relational leadership—into the roles of customers, workers, and managers. We show how these role-based relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect foster participants’ attentiveness to the situation...

Researchers of the Chinese bureaucracy generally believe that policy promotion depends on the power of the party committees because they have absolute authority in China. This intuitive argument, however, lacks support from rigorous empirical research and theoretical analyses. Through close observation of the Bureau of Justice, this paper analyzes how differentiated authority affects organizati...

This paper presents an empirical analysis of labor turnover in the U.S. federal bureaucracy. The results indicate that job experience in politically important federal agencies is valued by the private sector. Hence (high-level) bureaucrats employed in these agencies have high turnover probabilities. The analysis also shows that equalization of federal sector and private sector wage rates would ...

The paper questions the fashionable ideas, that bureaucratic organization is an obsolescent, undesirable and non-viable form of administration, and that there is an inevitable and irreversible paradigmatic shift towards marketor network organization. In contrast, the paper argues that contemporary democracies are involved in another round in a perennial debate and ideological struggle over what...