Bureaucratic structure and bureaucratic performance in less developed countries

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Rauch, JE; Evans, PB
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00044-4
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 49-71
• 关键词: Bureaucracy; Economic development

摘要

We argue that several easily identifiable structural features constitute the key ingredients of effective state bureaucracies and should help to predict ratings of bureaucratic performance: competitive salaries, internal promotion and career stability, and meritocratic recruitment. We collect a new dataset on these features for bureaucracies of 35 less developed countries. Controlling for country income, level of education, and ethnolinguistic diversity, we find that our measure of meritocratic recruitment is a statistically significant determinant of ratings supplied by two of three country risk agencies. The importance of competitive salaries and internal promotion and career stability could not be clearly established. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.