1,722,101 research outputs found
Organizational Control Systems and Pay-for-Performance in the Public Service
Full text linkUnder certain conditions, output related performance measurement and pay-for-performance produce negative outcomes. We argue that in public service, these negative effects are stronger than in the private sector. We combine Behavioural Economics and Management Control Theory to determine under which conditions this is the case. We suggest as alternatives to the dominant output related pay-for-performance systems selection and socialization, exploratory use of output performance measures, and awards
Democracy by competition : referenda and federalism in Switzerland. by Bruno S. Frey and Iris Bohnet
No full texttag=1 data=Democracy by competition : referenda and federalism in Switzerland. by Bruno S. Frey and Iris Bohnet
tag=2 data=Frey, Bruno S.%Bohnet, Iris
tag=3 data=Publius : The Journal of Federalism,
tag=4 data=23
tag=5 data=2
tag=6 data=Spring 1993
tag=7 data=71-81.
tag=8 data=REFERENDUMS
tag=10 data=Competition is not only a prerequisite for the successful working of economics but also of political coordination systems. We argue that popular referenda and federalism are the key factors in maintaining competition in the political arena.
tag=11 data=1993/5/10
tag=12 data=93/0611
tag=13 data=CABCompetition is not only a prerequisite for the successful working of economics but also of political coordination systems. We argue that popular referenda and federalism are the key factors in maintaining competition in the political arena
Direct Democracy for a Living Constitution
Full text linkThe development of the constitution must be based on the rule of law. Direct democratic rights allow citizens to participate in the amendment process. The direct democratic process of institutional change is theoretically and empirically analyzed. A number of counter arguments and issues for a gradual introduction are discussed. --
Politicians : Be killed or survive
Full text linkIn the course of history, a large number of politicians have been assassinated. To investigate this phenomenon, rational choice hypotheses are developed and tested using a large data set covering close to 100 countries over a period of 20 years. Several strategies, in addition to security measures, are shown to significantly reduce the probability of politicians being attacked or killed: extended institutional and governance quality, democracy, voice and accountability, a well-functioning system of law and order, decentralization via the division of power and federalism, larger cabinet size and a stronger civil society. There is also support for a contagion effect
Promotion publique de l'art et de la culture : pourquoi et comment ?
No full textL'art et la culture ne sont pas des biens libres. Leur consommation procure un bénéfice, d'où une demande en leur faveur. La production du secteur artistique et culturel requiert des ressources rares. De par ces trois arguments, l'art et la culture constituent un secteur dont le comportement des offreurs et demandeurs peut être soumis à une analyse économique. En outre, on sera amené à s'interroger sur le mode le plus efficace de promotion de l'art par les pouvoirs publics.
Cette question, cependant, ne se pose pas dans les secteurs de l'art où le marché est efficace. Dans d'autres secteurs il paraît également difficile de préconiser un soutien public, bien que le fonctionnement du marché y soit moins satisfaisant. Il existe cependant une série d'approches et d'instruments auxquels une politique de subvention publique de l'art peut recourir ; ces différents instruments, comme nous le montrerons, ont des effets très divers, voire opposés.
En dernier lieu, nous commenterons les conclusions principales qui, dans la perspective de l'économiste, peuvent être tirées sur la promotion publique de l'art et de la culture.Pommerehne Werner W., Frey Bruno S. Promotion publique de l'art et de la culture : pourquoi et comment ?. In: Politiques et management public, vol. 8, n° 1, 1990. pp. 1-26
The use of happiness research for public policy
Full text linkResearch on happiness tends to follow a "benevolent dictator" approach where politicians pursue people's happiness. This paper takes an antithetic approach based on the insights of public choice theory. First, we inquire how the results of happiness research may be used to improve the choice of institutions. Second, we show that the policy approach matters for the choice of research questions and the kind of knowledge happiness research aims to provide. Third, we emphasize that there is no shortcut to an optimal policy maximizing some happiness indicator or social welfare function since governments have an incentive to manipulate this indicator
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Tullock challenges : happiness, revolutions, and democracy
Full text linkGordon Tullock is one of the most important of the founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical "Tullock Challenges." The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and to some extent Google. Both innovations lead to strong incentives by governments to manipulate the policy outcomes. In general, "What is important will be manipulated by the government." To restrain government manipulation, one has to turn to Constitutional Economics and increase the possibilities for direct popular participation and federalism or introduce random mechanisms
Using Markets to Measure Pre-War Threat Assessments: The Nordic Countries Facing World War II
Full text linkNordic historians have asserted for a long time that in the Nordic countries only few people, if any, perceived increased threats of war prior to the World War II outbreak. This would explain, and possibly excuse, why their governments did not mobilize their armies until it was too late. This paper questions this established notion by deriving new estimates of widely held war threat assessments from the fluctuations of sovereign market yields collected from all Nordic bond markets at this period. Our results show that the Nordic contemporaries indeed perceived significant war risk increases around the time of major war-related geopolitical events. While these findings hence question some, but not all, of the standard Nordic World War II historiography, they also demonstrate the value of analyzing historical market prices to reassess the often tacit views and opinions of large groups of people in the past.Structural breaks; Sovereign debt; Capital Markets; Historiography; Cliometrics; World War II
- …
