All Outputs (5)

Varieties of connections, varieties of corruption: Evidence from bureaucrats in five countries (2022)
Journal Article
Harris, A., Meyer-Sahling, J. H., Sass, K., Schuster, C., & Sigman, R. (2023). Varieties of connections, varieties of corruption: Evidence from bureaucrats in five countries. Governance, 36(3), 953-972. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12714

Why do some bureaucrats engage in corruption for personal gain, yet others for political gain? We show that these forms of corruption frequently do not coincide and offer an explanation: bureaucrats hired based on political and personal connections h... Read More about Varieties of connections, varieties of corruption: Evidence from bureaucrats in five countries.

Learning effects of anti-corruption reform in public organisations: explanations from social psychological theory (2022)
Journal Article
Lee, D. S., Meyer-Sahling, J., & Park, S. (2022). Learning effects of anti-corruption reform in public organisations: explanations from social psychological theory. Public Management Review, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2022.2051064

Existing studies based on institutional or rationalist approaches have limitations in explaining changes in individual ethical behaviour and thus propose social psychological models that can offer alternative explanations. We conduct surveys of over... Read More about Learning effects of anti-corruption reform in public organisations: explanations from social psychological theory.

(Extreme) political polarization and party patronage (2022)
Journal Article
Kopecký, P., Meyer-Sahling, J., & Spirova, M. (2022). (Extreme) political polarization and party patronage. Irish Political Studies, 37(2), 218-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2022.2045143

The contemporary literature on political parties has identified their gradual but consistent shift away from civil society and towards the state. As parties are becoming ever increasingly dependent on state resources and exclusively interested in gov... Read More about (Extreme) political polarization and party patronage.

Activating the "Big Man": Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies (2022)
Journal Article
Harris, A. S., Meyer-Sahling, J., & Sass Mikkelsen, K. (2022). Activating the "Big Man": Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muac009/6532599

Public service delivery by African states is often characterized as particularist, favoring ethnic, personal or political networks of those inside the state over universalist, pro-social services to citizens. One explanation for particularist service... Read More about Activating the "Big Man": Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies.

Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States (2022)
Journal Article
Sigman, R., Harris, A. S., Meyer-Sahling, J., Mikkelsen, K. S., & Schuster, C. (2022). Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States. Journal of Development Studies, 58(4), 639-655. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.2013468

The resource curse literature argues that oil production reshapes the fiscal contract between citizens and the state: politicians become less responsive to citizen taxpayers and more likely to use public revenues for their own benefit. This paper exa... Read More about Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States.