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The Political Economy of Corruption
Corruption, commonly defined as the misuse of public office for private gains, is multifaceted, multidimensional and ubiquitous. This edited collection, featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field of corruption, goes beyond the standard enforcement framework wherein individuals only compare the expected costs and benefits of a corrupt act. These chapters explore the political-cultural contexts, legal and regulatory process and, above all, moral and psychological factors in attempts to understand and explain corruption. The book explores a broad canvas where gender, technology, culture and institutional structures influence attitudes towards corruption. Design and implementatio...
Managing Organizations to Sustain Passion for Public Service
New behavioural science knowledge about motivation in public service from a pioneer of the field.
Sociology of Corruption
In Sociology of Corruption, David Jancsics provides a fresh approach to the study of corruption in Hungary, which once seemed to be the most likely of the ex-communist bloc nations to catch up to the West and is, according to many experts and scholars, a country with a highly corrupt dynamic. Based on data from 2022, Hungary is now the most corrupt member state of the European Union. There is also a consensus among experts that a small clique of corrupt political actors has captured most Hungarian state institutions and a significant portion of the business sector. What fostered corruption in Hungary? What are the most typical forms of corruption in this country? What do Hungarians think about it? What is the role of prime minister Viktor Orbán in this? Sociology of Corruption proposes a novel sociological theory of corruption focusing on social status and relationships, network structures, and power dynamics as important explanatory factors of corrupt behavior. Although his focus is on Hungary, Jancsics's findings are applicable to other nations and cultural contexts.
The Autocratic Middle Class
"The conventional wisdom is that a growing middle class will give rise to democracy. Yet the middle classes of the developing world have grown at a remarkable pace over the past two decades, and much of this growth has taken place in countries that remain nondemocratic. Rosenfeld explains this phenomenon by showing how modern autocracies secure support from key middle-class constituencies. Drawing on original surveys, interviews, archival documents, and secondary sources collected from nine months in the field, she compares the experiences of recent post-communist countries, including Russia, the Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, to show that under autocracy, state efforts weaken support for democrac...
Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes
"This volume compares the most powerful authoritarian states in global politics today: Russia and China. For all their power and money, both regimes have faced difficult tradeoffs in seeking both political stability and reliable information about society while confronting the West and its international influence. They have also made different choices: Russia today is a competitive authoritarian regime, while China is a non-competitive authoritarian regime. Desite the different paths taken after the tumultuous events of 1989, both regimes have returned to a more personalized form of authoritarian rule. By placing China and Russia side-by-side, this volume examines regime-society relations and...
Self-Confidence, Social Identity, and Labor Market Inequality
We study the joint effect of self-confidence and social identity on labor market inequality in an experimental Indian labor market where employers and workers come from different castes. Employers evaluate resumes in order to predict future productivity of workers who perform a real effort task. The resumes in the control include a signal of productivity and caste information, while a measure of worker self-confidence is added in the treatment. After controlling for productivity signal, we find a discriminatory wage differential against lower caste workers in both treatments. While self-confidence strongly affects employer judgments for all workers, its impact for lower caste workers is about twice the effect for the higher caste workers. This differential treatment helps close the wage gap for the lower caste workers with high self-confidence . Our results suggest that interventions that target non-cognitive skills can be particularly effective for reducing identity-based labor market discrimination.
World Development Report 2016
"This Report aims to inspire and guide the researchers and practitioners who can help advance a new set of development approaches based on a fuller consideration of psychological and social influences." - p. 2
Improving Smallholder Agriculture Via Video-Based Group Extension
Providing technical advice at scale poses operational challenges, particularly with respect to managing a sufficiently large staff. Technology may help, but risks reducing efficacy given reduced customization and human interaction. We tested a video added onto standard human-provided extension services promoting a climate-smart practice, System Rice Intensification in India. Using frequentist statistical methods, we find large but imprecisely estimated treatment effects: the 95% confidence interval is 10kgs to 500kgs and 717Rps to 9650Rps for output and profits, respectively. However, our data are not normally distributed: specifically, key outcomes have fat tails. A Bayesian hierarchical model finds smaller but more precise treatment effects: analogous 95% intervals from -8kgs to 70kgs and -193Rps to 1380Rps. We also test two messaging sub-treatments designed to address commonly cited constraints to adoption: labor needs and self-efficacy. A frequentist analysis shows no added gains, while the Bayesian shows an added benefit when delivered in tandem.
