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{"title":"The Fragility of Public Service: A Leadership Study of Richard II & Measure for Measure","authors":"J. Dobel","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1928199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1928199","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how a sustainable ideal of public service and leadership depends upon the attributes and relations among human beings. I will assume that human nature does have substantive referents using the insights of modern cognitive sciences. I will also assume that not only science but also texts and stories can illuminate the constancy of certain attributes of human nature. In particular literature has the capacity to engrave knowledge by uniting the cognitive and emotional dimensions of comprehension. As modern cognitive science and literature studies demonstrate, story telling has the ability to claim attention, engrave knowledge with cognitive and emotional power and provide a forum to expand reflection and possibilities of understanding. Engaging stories bond human minds at multiple levels and permit persons to learn new details and insights about life and themselves. Strong narratives can transform people’s understandings of the world and possibility. Stories also augment people’s theories of mind that enable them to understand other people and actions. The paper examines Shakespeare’s observations about the qualities of persons involved in politics and the tensions that arise between Shakespeare’s models of action and the demands that public service and leadership place upon individuals. Using Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Measure for Measure and Richard II, I examine the attributes of humanity that Shakespeare identifies that make the exercise of public service leadership so fraught; I will examine the dynamics of power and institutions that freight politics and complicate dedication to a public service ideal; I will examine the temptations and distortions of the moral ideal of public service that humans introduce; Finally the paper discusses some ways in which the ideal of public service and leadership can be supplemented with both wider conceptions of the virtue needed by public servants but also institutional constraints upon it.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114933462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Subnational Variation in Electoral Accountability: Local Public Good Investments and Incumbent Support","authors":"Tugba Bozcaga","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2801727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2801727","url":null,"abstract":"Theories of democratic governance assume that citizens hold politicians accountable for their performance in providing public services. This study expands the existing debate by shifting its theoretical lens to subnational heterogeneity in satisfaction with government performance and incumbent support. Existing accounts suggest that local political and social contexts are likely to condition citizens’ perceptions of government performance. Since satisfaction with public services is driven not only by policy outcomes but also by the processes involved in decision making, the presence of stronger and denser voice and accountability mechanisms in small local units that increase citizens’ sense of the ability to influence local outcomes is likely to translate into higher satisfaction with government performance independent of the outcome itself. Using an original panel dataset containing detailed information on education and health investments and electoral outcomes in Turkey, I find that particularly health investments have a positive, yet delayed e↵ect on the vote share of the incumbent government. However, consistent with the theoretical expectations, this positive effect is limited only to small districts. A crucial contribution of this study is that the effect of public services on incumbent support is not uniform. By showing that local contexts may condition satisfaction with government performance, and thereby electoral outcomes, the study makes an important contribution to the literature on electoral behavior and distributive politics as well as governance and accountability.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127850323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Assessment of One Year Government Led by Shri Narendra Modi: An Analysis of Objective Achieved for Common Man","authors":"N. Singh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2607279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2607279","url":null,"abstract":"I am writing this paper with an objective to present my understanding of development and improvement in quality of life of common person. I would compare various government policies their implementation and achievement in last one year. This paper will also examine demographic dividend and improvement in the wages of people and corporate officials with respect to various index. I will also examine how present government is pro corporate rather than pro commoner. Pro corporate does not bad or harmful for any country, but it may harmful if it loses the property of being socially responsible. Various Component of Crony Capitalism will be included in this article. Connection of Government Policies with economy, their ratification and impact on people and business, would be examined. Further Political Rivalry and center state relation their subjects and lacunae in system would be figured out which has been happened so far.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126563245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public Sector Governance","authors":"Lodewijk Smets, Stephen F. Knack","doi":"10.1596/1813-9450-7267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-7267","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending for public sector governance on the quality of public sector management and institutions. The World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessments (CPIA) are used to measure the latter, the study considers only policy conditions targeted at improvements in those areas. The analysis uses a comprehensive country-year panel data set of aid receiving-countries and finds a significant and inverse U-shaped effect of public sector conditions on the quality of public sector governance. For most observed values in the data, the impact is positive, but it turns negative beyond a value of 80 conditions. At that point, the predicted CPIA score is about 0.25 point (0.3 standard deviation) higher than with zero conditions. For most observations, the number of cumulative conditions is below 80, so the estimated effect of more conditions is generally positive. The analysis corrects for potential endogeneity and shows that the results are robust to sample restrictions, the use of an alternative governance measure, and the inclusion of an extended set of control variables. Falsification tests are also consistent with a causal interpretation from conditions to quality of public sector governance. The paper shows that conditions related to public financial management and tax reforms are more effective than those related to anti-corruption or civil service and administrative reform, where progress requires changing the behavior of a larger set of “deconcentrated” actors. The paper concludes by describing some innovative ideas in the Bank’s ambitious new public sector management strategy that could improve the effectiveness of its support for public sector governance reform.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124883456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Моделирование Сценариев Межведомственного Информационного Взаимодействия При Предоставлении Государственных Услуг (Modelling of Scenarios of Interdepartmental Informational cooperation in the Provision of Public Services)","authors":"M. Braude-Zolotarev, I. Voloshkin, E. Serbina, Vitaliy Negorodov","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2608497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2608497","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: В Российской Федерации в достаточно короткий срок создана и реально функционирует единая система межведомственного электронного взаимодействия. Вместе с тем практика представления документов и информации по межведомственным запросам при предоставлении государственных и муниципальных услуг свидетельствует о необходимости качественного совершенствования системы электронного документооборота.В работе выработана и представлена новая целостная модель организации в Российской Федерации межведомственного информационного взаимодействия при предоставлении государственных и муниципальных услуг, включающая в себя единый порядок проектирования информационного взаимодействия на всех этажах власти. Предлагаемая модель исходит из необходимости создания единой системы государственного учета и предполагает установление единых требований к государственному учету прав на получение информации и документов по межведомственным запросам и единого порядка организации такого государственного учета.English Abstract: In the Russian Federation in a fairly short period of time a unified system of interagency electronic interaction was established and is now functioning . However, the practice of submission of documents and information concerning interdepartmental requests the provision of public and municipal services demonstrates the need for qualitative improvement of electronic document management system.The work developed and introduced a new integrated model of organization in the Russian Federation of interdepartmental information interaction in the provision of public and municipal services, including the design of a uniform procedure of information exchange at all levels of government. The proposed model is based on the need to create a unified system of state registration and involves the establishment of uniform standards for state registration of rights to information and documents on interdepartmental inquiries and uniform procedure for organizing such a public accounting.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134501225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Повышение Эффективности Государственной Службы и Оптимизация Численности Ее Кадрового Состава (Improving the Efficiency of the Public Service and Optimization of the Number of its Personnel Structure)","authors":"V. Yuzhakov, Elena Dobrolyubova, O. Alexandrov, E. Klochkova","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2608452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2608452","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: В работе представлены подготовленные авторами: оценка численности и кадрового состава государственных гражданских служащих и ее динамики в 2004 – 2013 гг.; предложения по направлениям оптимизации численности и кадрового состава государственной службы, оценка влияния предложений на эффективность государственной службы, а также на уровень расходов федерального бюджета и бюджетов субъектов Российской Федерации.English Abstract; In the paper the authors presented the following: estimation of the number and the staff of the civil servants and its dynamics in 2004-2013; suggestions to optimize the size and staffing of the public service, assessment of the impact of proposals on the effectiveness of the public service, as well as the level of expenditures of the federal budget and budgets of subjects of the Russian Federation.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126430178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Famine: Adam Smith and Foucauldian Political Economy","authors":"C. Williams","doi":"10.1111/sjpe.12069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12069","url":null,"abstract":"type=\"main\" xml:id=\"sjpe12069-abs-0001\"> It is often assumed that the attitudes of the early political economists, such as Smith, to issues of scarcity and famine were dogmatically laissez-faire. This view has been given fresh impetus by Michel Foucault's recently published lectures on the history of political economy. The article challenges this view. By examining Smith's texts and analyzing the way that Smith was received by critics in the century following the publication of the Wealth of Nations, the article argues that contemporary interpretations of Smith's views on scarcity and famine must be nuanced.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133397025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Des aspects de collégialité dans le fonctionnement du gouvernement grec: Le cas des gouvernements de coalition à l’époque du Mémorandum (Collegiality in Government: Alliance Cabinet Formation Under the Greek 'Memorandum')","authors":"Marie Iléane Pravita","doi":"10.17573/IPAR.2015.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17573/IPAR.2015.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"French Abstract: Le gouvernement est l’institution competente pour la prise de decisions et la surveillance de la mise en application du programme gouvernemental. L’œuvre de coordination du Premier ministre devient difficile quand il s’agit d’un gouvernement de coalition constitue de nombreux membres, separes d’un fosse ideologique. Le Conseil des ministres a cesse de jouer son role constitutionnel, de formuler la politique generale du pays, et ce sont des reunions informelles qui ont substitue aux organes competents. La qualite au sein de la gouvernance est un processus complexe avec des dimensions politiques, necessitant quand meme des conditions administratives et organisationnelles pour son succes.English Abstract: Government plays the most crucial role in modern governance in Greece, as in most parliamentary systems, shaping the general policy of the country, taking decisions thereof and overlooking their implementation in various spaces of public policy. The Prime Minister on his part assumes a preponderant position in government, especially since the constitutional reform of 1986 which brought about a significant reduction of the competences of the President of the Republic.The present paper addresses the issue of the extent of collegiality and coordination in the functioning and operation of alliance governments formed after the acceptance of the Memorandum of Understanding that was agreed between the Greek government and the lending institutions (European Union, European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund).","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124073679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Summary and Opportunities Evaluation of Personnel Potential State Civil Service","authors":"N. Mamedova","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2588041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2588041","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers the essence of human resource capacity of the civil service in conjunction with the contemporary trends of personnel policy, investigate the relationship between the concepts \"human resources\" and \"labor potential\" as well as the main points of contention valuation technique personnel and labor potential in the management of the civil service.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134619538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Departmental Information to the Provision of Electronic Government Services","authors":"N. Mamedova, A. Ivanov, V. V. Krupenkov","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2588070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2588070","url":null,"abstract":"The first results of the practical implementation of the e-Government had shown that it was necessary to develop a mechanism for managing regional information. With the introduction of some elements of e-government has become a WHO-developed can be applied in the framework of the federal program \"Electronic Russia\" method-cal tools. Implement the e-government program can only be under the legal regulation of all processes.","PeriodicalId":369466,"journal":{"name":"Political Economy: Structure & Scope of Government eJournal","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133604116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}