Books
‘The Government Analytics Handbook: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration‘ Washington DC: World Bank (co-edited with Rogger, D.)
[Author Talk] [Book trailer] [Podcast] [Launch presentation] [Launch blog] [Book review 1] [Book review 2] [Book review 3]
Also published in Spanish: ‘Manual de Analítica Gubernamental: Aprovechar los datos para fortalecer la Administración Pública‘ Washington DC: World Bank and Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD) (co-edited with Rogger, D.) [Masterclass]
‘Motivating Public Employees‘. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Elements Series), 2019 (with Esteve, M.) [Book review]
Major Datasets
‘The Global Survey of Public Servants Indicators‘ (with Fukuyama, F., Rogger, D., Hasnain, Z., Bersch, K., Mistree, D., Mikkelsen, K., Kay, K., and Meyer-Sahling, J.), 2022, Available at https://www.globalsurveyofpublicservants.org/indicators
[Launch article] [Launch blog] [Launch presentation]
Journal articles and book chapters
2025
‘Performance Rewards and Job Satisfaction in More and Less Developed Countries: Multi-Level Evidence from Bureaucrats in Ten Countries’, Public Administration, forthcoming (with Cantarelli, P., Meyer-Sahling, J. and Mikkelsen, K.)
‘Challenges and Opportunities in Inclusive Human Resource Management in Public Administration in Latin America and the Caribbean‘ In Naranjo, S., Mosqueira, E. and Lafuente, M. (Eds.) Better Governments for Better Lives (pp. 155-201). Washington DC: Inter-American Development Bank (with Naranjo, S.) [also published in Spanish and Portuguese]
2024
‘How Scholarship Can Support Government Analytics: Combining Employee Surveys with More Administrative Data Sources Towards a Better Understanding of How Government Functions.’ Public Administration Review, early view (with Rogger, D.)
‘Does Political Corruption Reduce Pro-Social Behavior by Bureaucrats? Lab Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh.’ Governance, early view (with Meyer-Sahling, J., Mikkelsen, K., Maruf, K., Rahman, T. and Woodhouse, E.,)
‘Unethical Leadership, Moral Compensation, and Ethical Followership: Evidence from a Survey Experiment with Chilean Public Servants.’ Public Administration Review, early view (with Fuenzalida, J., Meyer-Sahling, J. and Mikkelsen, K.)
2023
‘Assessing the Effects of User Accountability in Contracting Out‘, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, early view (with Esteve, M., Moore, A., Garrido-Rodriguez, J. and Zafra-Gomez, J.)
‘The Global Survey of Public Servants: Evidence from 1,300,000 Public Servants in 1,300 Government Institutions in 23 Countries‘, Public Administration Review, early view (with Fukuyama, F., Rogger, D., Hasnain, Z., Bersch, K., Mistree, D., Mikkelsen, K., Kay, K., and Meyer-Sahling, J.) (previously published as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 10333)
‘Does citizen participation make public servants more satisfied with their jobs? It depends on whether they are Spectators or Participants‘ Public Administration and Development, early view (with Islam, M., Meyer-Sahling, J., Mikkelsen, K. Rahman, T.)
2022
‘Varieties of Connections, Varieties of Corruption: Evidence from Bureaucrats in Five Countries‘, Governance, early view (with Harris, A., Mikkelsen, K., Meyer-Sahling, J., Seim, B. and Sigman, R.)
‘Activating the ‘Big Man’: Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies‘, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, early view (with Harris, A., Mikkelsen, K., and Meyer-Sahling, J.)
(Honorable Mention, Beryl Radin Award for the best article published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory in 2023)
‘Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States‘, Journal of Development Studies, early view (with Harris, A., Sigman, R., Mikkelsen, K., and Meyer-Sahling, J.)
2021
‘Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants‘, Public Administration Review, early view (with Mikkelsen, K., Meyer-Sahling, J. and Rojas, M.)
‘Exit, Voice, Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals‘, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, early view (with Mikkelsen, K., Correa, I. and Meyer-Sahling, J.)
‘Agents of Past Principals: The Lasting Effects of Incumbents on the Political Ideology of Bureaucrats‘, European Journal of Political Research, early view (with Kappe, R.)
‘Paraguay: The Supremacy of Informality in Public Administration“, Peters, B.G., Tercedor, C.A. and Ramos, C. (Ed.) The Emerald Handbook of Public Administration in Latin America, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 203-228
2020
‘Merit Recruitment, Tenure Protections and Public Service Motivation: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment with 7,300 Public Servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe‘, Public Administration, early view (with Meyer-Sahling, J. and Mikkelsen, K.)
‘A Cross-Cultural Basis for Public Service? Public Service Motivation Measurement Invariance in an Original Survey of 24,000 Public Servants in Ten Countries and Four World Regions‘, International Public Management Journal, early view (with Meyer-Sahling, J. and Mikkelsen, K.)
‘(Un)Principled Principals, (Un)Principled Agents: The Differential Effects of Managerial Civil Service Reforms on Corruption in Developing and OECD Countries‘, Governance, Vol.33(4), (with Meyer-Sahling, J. and Mikkelsen, K.)
‘Responding to Covid-19 Through Surveys of Public Servants‘ Public Administration Review, Vol. 80(5), 2020 (with Fukuyama, F., Weitzman, L., Mikkelsen, K., Meyer-Sahling, J., Bersch, K., Paskov, P., Rogger, D. and Kay, K.)
‘Oiling the Bureaucracy? Political Spending, Bureaucrats and the Resource Curse‘, World Development, Vol. 127, 2020 (with Harris, A.; Sigman, R.; Meyer-Sahling, J.; and Mikkelsen, K.)
‘Distorções de incentivo ao desempenho e redução de motivação no serviço público federal no Brasil‘, Revista do Serviço Público, Vol.71(3) (with Correa, I., Camões, M, Meyer-Sahling, J. and Mikkelsen, K.)
2019
‘The Causal Effect of Public Service Motivation on Ethical Behaviour in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey Experiment‘, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2019, Vol. 29(3) (with Meyer-Sahling, J. and Mikkelsen, K.)
‘Patrons Against Clients: Electoral Uncertainty and Bureaucratic Tenure in Patronage States’, Regulation & Governance, 2019, Vol. 14(1)
2018
‘Civil Service Management and Corruption: What We Know and What We Don’t‘, Public Administration, 2018, Vol. 96(2) (with Meyer-Sahling, J. and Mikkelsen, K.)
‘Merit, Tenure and Bureaucratic Behavior: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in the Dominican Republic’, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 51(6), p. 759–792, 2018 (with Oliveros, V.) [Paper] [Appendix]
‘Cooking the Books: Bureaucratic Politicization and Policy Knowledge‘ Governance, Vol. 31(1), p. 7-26, Jan. 2018 (with Boräng, F., Cornell, A. and Grimes, M.),
2017
‘Legal Reform Need Not Come First: Merit-Based Civil Service Management in Law and Practice.’ Public Administration, Vol. 95(3), p. 571-588, Sep. 2017
(Joint Winner of the Haldane Prize for the best article published in Public Administration in 2017)
‘The Effects of Doing More with Less in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey’ Public Administration Review, Vol. 77(4), p. 544-553, July 2017 (with Esteve, M., Albareda, A. and Losada, C.)
2016
‘What Causes Patronage Reform? It Depends on the Type of Civil Service Reform‘ Public Administration, Vol. 94(4), p. 1094-1104, December 2016 (blogged about in the Inter-American Development Bank’s Gobernarte Blog)
‘Party Patronage in Contemporary Democracies: Results from an Expert Survey in 22 Countries from Five Regions’ European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 55(2), p. 416–431, May 2016 (with Kopecky, P., Meyer-Sahling, J., Panizza, F., Scherlis, G. and Spirova, M.) [Dataset]
‘When the Victor Cannot Claim the Spoils: Institutional Incentives for Professionalizing Patronage States’ Inter-American Development Bank, Department of Research and Chief Economist Working Paper Series IDB-WP-667 (blogged about in the Inter-American Development Bank’s Ideas Matter blog: Reforming the Civil Service to Win Elections; Versión en español: Reformando la administración pública para ganar elecciones)
Book Reviews
‘Review: Jobs for the Boys – Patronage and the State in Comparative Perspective’ Governance, Vol. 26, Issue 4, 2013
‘Review: Party patronage and party government in European democracies’ Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2013