All Outputs (4)

Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe (2020)
Journal Article
Meyer-Sahling, J., Mikkelsen, K., & Schuster, C. (2021). Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe. Public Administration, 99(4), 740-757. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12708

How can governments manage civil servants to enhance public service motivation (PSM)? Despite the centrality of PSM in public administration research, the effects of management practices on PSM remain understudied. We address this gap through a conjo... Read More about Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Distortions of incentive to performance and reduction of motivation in the federal public service in Brazil (2020)
Journal Article
Corrêa, I., Camões, M., Meyer-Sahling, J., Mikkelsen, K., & Schuster, C. (2020). Distortions of incentive to performance and reduction of motivation in the federal public service in Brazil. Revista de Saúde Pública, 71(3), 476-503. https://doi.org/10.21874/rsp.v71i3.3408

In the current structure of careers in the Brazilian Federal Government, public officials who do not hold a DAS position have two predominant ways of reaching a higher salary level: years of service and passing a written examination for a higher paid... Read More about Distortions of incentive to performance and reduction of motivation in the federal public service in Brazil.

(Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries (2020)
Journal Article
Meyer‐Sahling, J., Schuster, C., & Mikkelsen, . K. S. (2020). (Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries. Governance, 33(4), 829-848. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12461

Do management practices have similar anti-corruption eects in OECD and developing countries? Despite prominent cautions against 'New Zealand' reforms which enhance managerial discretion in developing countries, scholars have not assessed this questio... Read More about (Un)principled principals, (un)principled agents: The differential effects of managerial civil service reforms on corruption in developing and OECD countries.

Stepping out of the shadow of the past: how career attributes shape ministerial stability in post-communist democracies (2020)
Journal Article
Morgan-Collins, M., & Meyer-Sahling, J. (2020). Stepping out of the shadow of the past: how career attributes shape ministerial stability in post-communist democracies. East European Politics, 311-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/21599165.2020.1781096

How do career attributes affect the survival of post-communist ministers? We theorise that career attributes determine “desirability” of ministers, and therefore the length of their tenure. While political career attributes provide superior expertise... Read More about Stepping out of the shadow of the past: how career attributes shape ministerial stability in post-communist democracies.