Exhibit 1230 ยท Peer-reviewed article (working-paper abstract read)
Bureaucratic Structure and Bureaucratic Performance in Less Developed Countries (UC San Diego discussion paper, 1999; Journal of Public Economics 75(1):49-71, 2000)
Meritocratic recruitment is the most important structural feature for improving bureaucratic performance, followed by internal promotion and career stability.
For bureaucracies in 35 less developed countries, the authors find that merit recruitment, internal promotion and career stability predict country-risk ratings of bureaucratic performance after controls for income, education and ethnolinguistic diversity; competitive salaries could not be shown to matter.
- Source
- James E. Rauch and Peter B. Evans
- Date
- 1999 (working paper); 2000 (journal)
- Quoted from
- Abstract of the 1999 UCSD discussion paper (RePEc/IDEAS record ucsdec/qt0sb0w38d)
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00044-4
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Text read is the 1999 working-paper abstract (https://ideas.repec.org/p/cdl/ucsdec/qt0sb0w38d.html); the journal article is behind ScienceDirect and its wording was not read. Outcome measure is ratings by country-risk agencies, not measured corruption.