Buying the honor of thieves? Performance pay, political patronage, and corruption

Campbell, Jesse W.

doi:10.1016/j.ijlcj.2020.100439

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“…Another area of research with which the symbolic perspective on representative bureaucracy may intersect is that of organizational communication and public relations. Communication and the provision of information matters for trust, both within government and for citizens (Campbell and Im, 2015;Im and Campbell, 2020;Van de Walle and Bouckaert, 2003;Yang and Holzer, 2006), particularly as government performance is a complex construct that may not be readily accessible to citizens accustomed to drawing upon a private sector-derived performance model (Campbell, 2020b). In the current study, I argued that representative bureaucracy would have a larger impact on trust in government for immigrants based on the symbolic representation approach.…”

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Representative Bureaucracy, Immigrants, and Trust in Government: A Cross-National Study

Campbell¹

2021

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Building a civil service that reflects the diversity of the population it serves can increase bureaucratic legitimacy and the fairness of public service provision. In this study, I draw on symbolic representation theory and argue that the impact of representative bureaucracy on trust in government can vary by citizen immigration status. Combining microlevel demographic and opinion data from respondents in 43 countries and country-level estimates of the representativeness of government personnel, I implement a series of multi-level models to test the theory. The analysis suggests that the representativeness of government bureaucracy does not affect trust in the average case but is a significant factor for first generation immigrants. This study provides new evidence for the trust-enhancing effect of representative bureaucracy among minority stakeholders. I discuss how a cross-national approach can further enrich the theoretical landscape of the representative bureaucracy construct.

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Representative Bureaucracy, Immigrants, and Trust in Government: A Cross-National Study

Campbell¹

2021

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“…[Figure 4 here] Countries. The large size of the analytical set (n=93 studies) allows synthesizing findings from all continents, 43 countries worldwide specifically, as well as from larger studies focusing on whole regions such as the European Union (Stensöta, Wängnerud, and Svensson 2015;Voliotis 2011;Bauhr, Charron, and Wängnerud 2019), Europe (Ripoll and Breaugh 2019;Charron et al 2017), and several countries worldwide (Rose and Peiffer 2016;Campbell 2020;Navot, Reingewertz, and Cohen 2016), as well as two meta-analytical studies synthesizing research from various countries (Bellé and Cantarelli 2017;Meyer-Sahling, Mikkelsen, and Schuster 2018). Specifically, the majority of studies n=31 (33.3%) focusses on European countries, n=28 (30.1%) focus on Asia (including one study from Australia), n=17 (18.3%) on countries in the Americas.…”

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Understanding the Micro-Foundations of Administrative Corruption in the Public Sector: Findings from a Systematic Literature Review

Weißmüller¹,

Zuber²

2022

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Public sector corruption is one of the most pressing unresolved issues of our time. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, this study examines the psychological and contextual mechanisms that allow individuals to psychologically rationalize their engagement in administrative corruption. By conducting a systematic literature review of 93 studies, 241 cases of empirical evidence on the relationships between micro, meso, and macro-level factors are synthesized to reveal seven dimensions which effectively affect civil servants’ corruptibility. Mapping the status quo of the discourse, this study reveals that moral justification for administrative corruption is the outcome of a multi-layered and dynamic process of social cognition based on various processes of rationalization beyond greed: relationships, social obligations, and culturally reinforced norms (mis-)guide behavior in the context of socially varying psychological reference points of accountability and legitimacy that lead to essential moral value conflicts between self-serving behavior and integrity.

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“…Researchers have tested whether the relationship between performance rewards and corruption is conditioned by patronage-based recruitment (Campbell, 2020). They discover, through a comparison of over 100 countries, that the effect of pay on corruption is negative when clientelism is low but not significant or positive in countries where clientelism pervades the hiring process.…”

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Public Sector Strategies in Curbing Corruption: A Review of the Literature

2022

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Corruption is widespread and preventive strategies to reduce corruption need to be adapted within the local context. Considering the United Nations (UN) Convention against corruption as our starting point, the paper presents a literature review based on 118 articles on corruption prevention initiatives in the public sector. The analysis indicates a substantial alignment between the guidelines deriving from the UN Convention, except for a lack of work on the risk-based approach to corruption prevention. Further, the review indicates problems with research designs. Based on the insights generated from the analysis, we develop an agenda for future research.

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Buying the honor of thieves? Performance pay, political patronage, and corruption

Cited by 12 publications

References 65 publications

Representative Bureaucracy, Immigrants, and Trust in Government: A Cross-National Study

Representative Bureaucracy, Immigrants, and Trust in Government: A Cross-National Study

Understanding the Micro-Foundations of Administrative Corruption in the Public Sector: Findings from a Systematic Literature Review

Public Sector Strategies in Curbing Corruption: A Review of the Literature

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