This article offers the first comprehensive review of the interdisciplinary state of knowledge
regarding anti-corruption policies, with a particular focus on reducing corruption among civil …

Why are some countries less corrupt and better governed than others? Challenging
conventional explanations on the remarkable differences in quality of government …

Do civil servants in some countries have higher organizational commitment? Is there any
substantial cross-national variation in the form and degree of commitment? Good …

Employees' competencies are key to understanding individual performance. In this article,
we investigate which competencies are considered important in government using the …

Few cross-country studies examine the effects of auditing quality on public sector corruption.
We present a definition of good auditing consisting of three principles: independence …

The article examines the effect of meritocratic recruitment and tenure protection in public
bureaucracies on regulatory quality and business entry rates in a global sample. Utilizing a …

Recent studies of Putin-era elites have focused primarily on the role of siloviki. We bring the
focus back to an analysis of the elite continuity within the Soviet regime. By compiling a …

Public administration as a field of study finds itself in the middle of a fluid environment. The
very reach and complexity of public administration has been easy to take for granted, easy to …

This study focuses on an important yet often neglected topic in public personnel competency
studies: competencies required for digital government. It addresses the question: Which …

Public employment in most develo** countries is governed by political patronage.
Patronage provides many incumbents with governability and electoral advantage. What …