Abstract Institutional reform processes can be contested. The more so by those working in the affected institutions. Bureaucracies, particular, resistant to change. To better understand such processes, we study regional Norway. This is interesting as it mixes “voluntary” and “forced” dynamics. Indeed, Norwegian regions ( fylkeskommuner ) remain unchanged, merge voluntarily, or forced central go...

Agency theory has had little to say about the control of bureaucratic corruption, perhaps the greatest agency problem that exists. I consider the role of incentive contracting for reducing corruption through the use of independent investigations, a common way to monitor corruption. In simple settings, bureaucratic corruption can be suppressed by rewarding and penalizing bureaucrats on the nding...

This article presents the evolution of the Arabic cryptologic treatises discovered in Istanbul’s Süleymaniye library, linking its various phases to the greater bureaucratic trends of the regimes which produced these treatises.

This study aims to describe the implementation of electronic parking program in Surakarta City and also factors that influence process. research method is descriptive qualitative with data collection techniques through interviews, documentation, observation. The sampling technique was purposive validity technical source triangulation. Data analysis were carried out by reduction, presentation, d...

This paper presents an analytic procedure for the value added to different production levels with different policy options. The approach is stochastic and thus provides a framework for informed decision-making on productivity growth under uncertainty conditions. The model was applied to data collected from a firm and re-sults recommend that the firm should redevelop if in diversification and sy...

Scholarship on executive politics provides conflicting views about whether staffing administrative agencies through politicized or (politically) autonomous means is the best method for maximizing bureaucratic competence. We offer a theoretical account which maintains that obtaining a proper balance between both types of personnel systems across the supervisory and subordinate levels of an organ...

Preliminary observation suggests that the contact between Israeli officials and newly arrived immigrants from traditional societies is considerably less "bureaucratic" than might have been predicted. For example, analysis of several cases of such bureaucrat-client relationships indicates that officials often add the role of teacher to their relatively specific roles as bureaucrats by teaching n...

Previous studies of WTO dispute settlement have sought to evaluate whether a Member’s legal capacity influences its odds of bringing litigation before the multilateral trade regime. Because direct measures of legal capacity are elusive, these studies have had to use indirect proxies, such as per capita income or number of delegates in Geneva. Yet, the reliability of these measures is questionab...