Frédéric Varone
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 137769 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Frédéric Varone |
| NOMBRES | Frédéric |
| APELLIDO | Varone |
| FIRMA | VARONE F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5620-3291 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 86 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 19 |
Perceptual accuracy, policy congruence and electoral success of candidates
Recent research has documented that politicians are not good at estimating citizens' policy preferences, though their ability to do so varies across parties and individuals. The postulated link between this low perceptual accuracy and substantive representation has rarely been explored empirically. We analyse whether politicians' perceptual inaccuracy corresponds to a systematic opinion gap between candidates and their party voters. We also asses…
Conflicting perceptions
This study examines how citizens and politicians evaluate different types of political conflict. Conflicts can be substantive in nature, involving disagreements over policy measures or clashes over core ideological values, or less substantive, concerning strategic relationships between parties. While conflict is inherent to politics, we know little about how different types of conflict are perceived by the public and how this differs from the per…
Generalist and specialist roles of policy actors
This article examines how the roles of policy actors shape preferences for the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). We distinguish between generalists, active across multiple policy sectors, and specialists, whose engagement is concentrated mostly in a single sector. We expect that generalists tend to support horizontal, cross-sectoral AI regulation, whereas specialists favor sector-specific, vertical approaches. Our analysis draws on orig…
Resource regimes and the success of local renewable energy projects
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment
We explore how honesty-humility and the other HEXACO personality traits relate to citizens’ nascent ambition and their recruitment to run for office. We extend previous work on virtue-related personality traits and political recruitment in two important ways: we go beyond North America and conduct a five-country cross-national study with nationally representative samples. More importantly, going beyond individual-level differences in nascent ambi…
Too honest and humble to run for office? Citizens’ personality traits, nascent ambition, and recruitment – Addendum
What matters more to politicians
How Politicians (mis)Perceive Policy Salience
The role of politicians' perceptual accuracy of voter opinions in their reelection
Political representation can be described as a process brought about via an electoral and a perceptual path. Drawing on original survey data on the perceptual accuracy of elected representatives in Belgium, Canada and Switzerland, this study explores whether and how the two paths are connected. It shows, first, that representatives who more accurately perceive voters' opinion are more likely to be re‐elected, suggesting that perceptual accuracy i…
Conscientiousness of representatives and agreement with their party positions
Party unity is an important feature in contemporary democracies. Ideological loyalty, disciplinary measures implemented by party leaders and homogeneity of preferences among elected representatives lead them to act in unison. This study focuses on the last mechanism and assesses under which conditions party representatives agree on policy positions. It argues that the personality trait of conscientiousness is linked to how a representative agrees…
The future might be female
Recently, scientific experts have become increasingly influential in political decision-making. Although previous research has examined the extent and conditions under which politicians use scientific evidence, we know less about how citizens perceive scientific experts. In this study, we argue that the credibility of experts depends not only on the message they deliver or the medium they use, but also on the individual characteristics of the exp…
Network dynamics in public health advisory systems
This study presents a dual‐method approach to systematically analyze public health advisory networks during the COVID‐19 pandemic across four jurisdictions: Belgium, Quebec, Sweden, and Switzerland. Using network analysis inspired by egocentric analysis and a subsystems approach adapted to public health, the research investigates network structures and their openness to new actors and ideas. The findings reveal significant variations in network c…
Do Political Leaders Understand Public Opinion Better than Backbenchers
How elected representatives think about public opinion affects the degree to which policies are congruent with the public’s policy preferences. This is especially true for politicians occupying leadership positions, their perceptions matter even more. Extant work concluded that politicians in general do not exhibit a high perceptual accuracy, but direct evidence of the relative accuracy of leaders’ perceptions of public opinion is missing. Drawin…
Do Politicians Outside the United States Also Think Voters Are More Conservative Than They Really Are? - Corrigendum
Politicians' Theories of Voting Behavior
While political scientists regularly engage in spirited theoretical debates about elections and voting behavior, few have noticed that elected politicians also have theories of elections and voting. Here, we investigate politicians' positions on eight central theoretical debates in the area of elections and voting behavior and compare politicians' theories to those held by ordinary citizens. Using data from face-to-face interviews with nearly one…
Defining artificial intelligence as a policy problem
Scholars agree that digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) pose a political challenge. In this article, we study empirically how different actors in the German political system define AI as a policy problem. We use an original data set of 6421 statements by representatives of political parties, interest groups, scientific experts, and public officials in parliamentary debates, government consultations, and quality newspapers. T…
Citizens’ agreement to share personal data for public policies
The digitalisation of public policy requires that the State uses citizens' personal data. Although researchers agree that data privacy is important, we know little about the conditions under which citizens approve of their personal data being used in different policy domains. This study relies on data from original surveys conducted in Switzerland to demonstrate that citizens' willingness to share their data with the State is low and varies acros…
Shared Class, Shared Opinion? Policy Preference Congruence Between Citizens and Legislators
Recent studies have shown that policymakers and policy outcomes in advanced democracies are biased against the preferences of less affluent and working‐class citizens. One reason for this inequality in substantive representation might be that most policymakers are well‐off themselves. In this paper, we explore the effect of shared class background on the congruence between legislators' and citizens' policy preferences. To do so, we rely on origin…
Do Politicians Outside the United States Also Think Voters Are More Conservative than They Really Are
In an influential recent study, Broockman and Skovron (2018) found that American politicians consistently overestimate the conservativeness of their constituents on a host of issues. Whether this conservative bias in politicians' perceptions of public opinion is a uniquely American phenomenon is an open question with broad implications for the quality and nature of democratic representation. We investigate it in four democracies: Belgium, Canada,…
Agenda-setting in nascent policy subsystems
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11077-023-09514-5
Inaccurate Politicians
Knowledge of what voters prefer is central to several theories of democratic representation and accountability. Despite this, we know little in a comparative sense of how well politicians know citizens’ policy preferences. We present results from a study of 866 politicians in four countries. Politicians were asked to estimate the percentage of public support for various policy proposals. Comparing more than 10,000 estimations with actual levels o…
Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion
Research has shown that politicians' perceptions of public opinion are subject to social projection. When estimating the opinions of voters on a broad range of issues, politicians tend to assume that their own preferences are shared by voters. This article revisits this finding and adds to the literature in three ways. First, it makes a conceptual contribution by bringing together different approaches to the analysis of projection and its consequ…
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the Covid‐19 crisis
Under which conditions do politicians listen to scientific experts in a crisis? This study addresses this question by assessing how the Swiss government implemented 186 policy recommendations formulated by the National COVID‐19 Science Task Force (STF) to combat the spread of the virus and alleviate its impact on the health system, society and economy during the first year of the pandemic. Results of multiple regression analyses show that the imp…
How Do Politicians Bargain? Evidence from Ultimatum Games with Legislators in Five Countries
Politicians regularly bargain with colleagues and other actors. Bargaining dynamics are central to theories of legislative politics and representative democracy, bearing directly on the substance and success of legislation, policy, and on politicians' careers. Yet, controlled evidence on how legislators bargain is scarce. Do they apply different strategies when engaging different actors? If so, what are they, and why? To study these questions, we…
Understanding MPs’ perceptions of party voters’ opinion in Western democracies
The ability of Members of Parliament (MPs) to know the policy preferences of their party voters is a precondition for substantive representation. This study investigates whether MPs’ perceptions of their party voters’ opinions are more accurate with policy statements on which they are competent—namely, those that are owned by their party and in which the MPs have specialised. It combines unique data from citizen surveys and face-to-face meetings …
A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets
We examine regularities and differences in public budgeting in comparative perspective. Budgets quantify collective political decisions made in response to incoming information, the preferences of decision makers, and the institutions that structure how decisions are made. We first establish that the distribution of budget changes in many Western democracies follows a non‐Gaussian distribution, the power function. This implies that budgets are hi…
Treating Policy Brokers Seriously
The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) pays special attention to "so-called" policy brokers when explaining policy change. However, this prominent policy approach neither clearly defines who the policy brokers are nor identifies under which institutional rules they have an influence on policy processes and outputs. This article thus formulates two theoretical hypotheses that complement the ACF and then proceeds to undertake the first empirical te…
Inaccurate Politicians
Knowledge of what voters prefer is central to several theories of democratic representation and accountability. Despite this, we know little in a comparative sense of how well politicians know citizens’ policy preferences. We present results from a study of 866 politicians in four countries. Politicians were asked to estimate the percentage of public support for various policy proposals. Comparing more than 10,000 estimations with actual levels o…
Institutional Resource Regimes
Punctuated Equilibrium and Agenda‐Setting
The article analyzes how focusing events affect the public and political agenda and translate into policy change. Empirically, the study focuses on the policy changes initiated by paedophile Marc Dutroux's arrest in 1996 in Belgium. Theoretically, the article tests whether Baumgartner and Jones's (1993) U.S. punctuated equilibrium approach applies to a most different system case, Belgium being a consociational democracy and a partitocracy. Their …
Policy with or without parties? A comparative analysis of policy priorities and policy change in Belgium, 1991 to 2000
This paper confronts two models of policy: the party model states that policy-making is an orderly process initiated by parties implementing their party programme and carrying out their electoral promises; the external pressure model contends that policy change is a non-orderly process but rather a disjoint process coming in large bursts that are difficult to predict. Drawing upon eight policy agendas in Belgium covering the period from 1991 to 2…
Resigned but Satisfied
This article examines the relationship between red tape, Public Service Motivation (PSM) and a particular work outcome labelled ‘resigned satisfaction’. Using data from a national survey of over 3754 public servants working at the municipal level in Switzerland, this study shows the importance of looking more closely at the concept of work satisfaction and, furthermore, of thoroughly investigating the impact of the different PSM dimensions on wor…
Functional regulatory spaces
Dealing with bad guys
Policy actors tend to misinterpret and distrust opponents in policy processes. This phenomenon, known as the “devil shift”, consists of the following two dimensions: actors perceive opponents as more powerful and as more evil than they really are. Analysing nine policy processes in Switzerland, this article highlights the drivers of the devil shift at two levels. On the actor level, interest groups, political parties and powerful actors suffer mo…
Do Politicians Outside the United States Also Think Voters Are More Conservative than They Really Are
In an influential recent study, Broockman and Skovron (2018) found that American politicians consistently overestimate the conservativeness of their constituents on a host of issues. Whether this conservative bias in politicians' perceptions of public opinion is a uniquely American phenomenon is an open question with broad implications for the quality and nature of democratic representation. We investigate it in four democracies: Belgium, Canada,…
Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion
Research has shown that politicians' perceptions of public opinion are subject to social projection. When estimating the opinions of voters on a broad range of issues, politicians tend to assume that their own preferences are shared by voters. This article revisits this finding and adds to the literature in three ways. First, it makes a conceptual contribution by bringing together different approaches to the analysis of projection and its consequ…
Defending the status quo across venues and coalitions
This study investigates the conditions under which pro-status quo groups increase their advocacy success during an entire policymaking process. It scrutinises whether pro-status quo defenders who are involved in multiple institutional venues and who join many coalitions of interest groups are able to achieve their policy preferences. A case study focussing on the regulation of stem cell research in California traces the policymaking process and t…
The Media as a Dual Mediator of the Political Agenda–Setting Effect of Protest. A Longitudinal Study in Six Western European Countries
T he study investigates the impact of media coverage of protest on issue attention in parliament (questions) in six Western European countries. Integrating several data sets on protest, media, and political agendas, we demonstrate that media coverage of protest affects parliamentary agendas: the more media attention protest on an issue receives, the more parliamentary questions on that issue are asked. The relationship, however, is mediated by th…
How corporatist institutions shape the access of citizen groups to policy-makers
Traditional corporatist groups such as business groups and unions still play an important role in many countries, and the rumors exaggerates the decline of corporatist structures. Nevertheless citizen groups have grown in number and political importance. We show that Danish and Swiss citizen groups have gained better access to the administrative and the parliamentary venues in the period 1975-85 through 2010, but with Swiss citizen groups more su…
Regulating biomedicine in Europe and North America
This article explains the variation in policy design processes and the resulting policy‐outputs of ‘biopolicies’ implemented within the domain of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) for eleven European and North‐American countries. By applying the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis, the comparison describes and defines the ‘multiple conjunctural causation’ to explain the divergences or similarities of ART policies in Europe and North A…
Institutional Vulnerability to Social Constructions
This article contributes to efforts to integrate power-based, institutionalist, and constructivist perspectives on policy making. Using an analysis of policy designs for assisted reproductive technology, the authors argue that jurisdictional federations are more vulnerable to social constructions based on widely held perceptions of social groups than functional federations and, to a lesser extent, unitary states. In fact, policy makers in jurisdi…
When do decision makers listen (less) to experts? The Swiss government's implementation of scientific advice during the Covid‐19 crisis
Under which conditions do politicians listen to scientific experts in a crisis? This study addresses this question by assessing how the Swiss government implemented 186 policy recommendations formulated by the National COVID‐19 Science Task Force (STF) to combat the spread of the virus and alleviate its impact on the health system, society and economy during the first year of the pandemic. Results of multiple regression analyses show that the imp…
Understanding MPs’ perceptions of party voters’ opinion in Western democracies
The ability of Members of Parliament (MPs) to know the policy preferences of their party voters is a precondition for substantive representation. This study investigates whether MPs’ perceptions of their party voters’ opinions are more accurate with policy statements on which they are competent—namely, those that are owned by their party and in which the MPs have specialised. It combines unique data from citizen surveys and face-to-face meetings …
Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys
This article discusses the methodological challenges of legislative surveys. Following an overview of different types of survey biases, the article argues that self-selection and misreporting are the most critical problems for legislative surveys. In order to identify the self-selection and misreporting biases, we compare the answers with a survey from Swiss members of parliament with their observed behavior in the parliament. The empirical analy…
The Relationship between Media and Political Agendas
Previous studies have demonstrated that the extent to which media coverage influences the issue priorities of policy makers is contingent on the type of issue, media, and political agenda. This article contends that the relationship between media and political agendas varies across the phases of the decision-making process. Based on a comprehensive dataset on issue attention in media coverage and various policy-making channels covering the years …
The Lamfalussy Reform in the EU Securities Markets
In 2000 a Committee of Wise Men chaired by Alexandre Lamfalussy, former president of the European Monetary Institute was appointed by the Economics and Finance Ministers Council to make recommendations on the regulation of the European securities markets. It proposed a four-level system to improve the legislative process while ensuring what it called a democratic and institutional balance. Our paper questions to what extent the concepts of two ba…
Do interest groups bias MPs’ perception of party voters’ preferences
This study analyses how information provided by different types of interest groups influences the ability of members of parliament (MPs) to accurately perceive the preferences of those citizens who voted them into office. To study how information provision by interest groups affects MPs’ perceptions, we combine unique data from a citizen survey and face-to-face meetings with 151 federal MPs in Switzerland, thus enabling a comparison of actual vot…
More equal than others
This study assesses whether economic interest groups (business associations and trade unions) enjoy better access to the policymaking process than citizen groups. It compares the interest group population in Switzerland with those sets of groups present in the administrative and legislative venues. The study devises an aggregate measure of access to policymaking as a whole, which weights access according to different venues' importance. It theori…
A social network-based approach to assessde factoindependence of regulatory agencies
This article uses a policy network perspective to assess the independence of regulatory agencies (RAs) in liberalized public utility sectors. We focus on the de facto independence of RAs from elected politicians, regulatees and other co-regulators. We go further than previous studies, which only undertook a general analysis of the de jure independence of RAs from political authorities. Specifically, we apply a social network analysis (SNA), which…
Interests groups in Parliament
This research note presents an innovative dataset of SwissMPs’ interest ties between 2000‐2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties perMPhas more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid‐2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties betweenMPs and interest groups, showing the strongest increase during the period. However, when looking at the most present…
La pensée comptable
La profonde crise du modèle économique ont fortement remis en question le rôle de l’Etat dans la croissance économique et dans la régulation de la société. Il est devenu banal de constater la subordination de l’Etat à un marché devenu à la fois instrument d’allocation des ressources et étalon de mesure des politiques publiques. La « révolution conservatrice » a entraîné au Nord comme au Sud une attaque en règle contre l’Etat-providence et les adm…
Mesurer la performance publique
Cet article présente quelques enseignements de l'analyse des politiques publiques pour la conception et l'application d'indicateurs de la performance publique. Après avoir souligné la nécessité d'une telle démarche, nous élaborons un modèle causal qui identifie les objets (outputs, impacts, outcomes) et les critères (effectivité, efficacité, efficiences allocative et productive) à évaluer lors de la mesure et de l'appréciation des produits et des…
La gestion de l'eau en Belgique. Analyse historique des régimes institutionnels (1804-2001)
Nombre de problèmes environnementaux actuels, parfois clairement tangibles pour chacun de nous, attestent de la dégradation des ressources naturelles et de la réelle mise en danger de leur capacité de renouvellement. Ces situations découlent généralement du fait que différents usagers d’une ressource renouvelable comme l’eau exploitent celle-ci de manière concomitante, chacun poursuivant ses intérêts propres et ignorant – de manière plus ou moins…
Libéralisation des Services publics de réseau et jeux croisés de la régulation
This article analyses the liberalization of public services with a special focus on the (re)regulation process that is induced. Firstly, a conceptual framework is developed in order to identify the constitutive elements of the public regulation related to market competition, public service obligations, operators and public property, as well as the tension between them. Secondly, a comparative study describes the liberalization and the regulatory …
Policy Management and Performance-Related Pay
Les instruments de la politique énergétique
This study tests explanations of the choice of policy instruments. The comparative analysis of the Canadian and United States energy policies for the period 1973-1996 concludes that the choice of a policy instrument is a function of (1) whether the degree of constraint involved is consistent with the ideological predisposition of the party in power, (2) whether the agency needed to implement the instrument already exists, thus reducing costs, (3)…
Does Federalism Matter for Biopolicies? Switzerland in Comparative Perspective
This article analyses how federalism matters for the policy‐designing process and the resulting policies in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology through the comparison of four countries, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium and Canada. It reconstructs from an actor‐centred perspective how federalism interacts with other country and policy‐field specific characteristics and empirically assesses how this interaction influenced the final policies.…
Mobilités, fluidités… Libertés
Mobilités, fluidités... libertés ? Nous nous déplaçons plus, plus vile et plus loin. Ces tendances lourdes interrogent les sciences sociales à plus d'un titre : la croissance des déplacements est-elle le reflet d'une transformation de la spatialisation des sociétés ? Est-elle la manifestation d'une fluidification sociale réductrice des inégalités ou, au contraire, serait-elle le signe de l'émergence de nouvelles formes de différentiations sociale…
Institutionnalisation de l'évaluation et nouvelle gestion publique
Cet article compare le degré d’institutionnalisation de l’évaluation des politiques publiques dans dix-huit démocraties. Trois catégories de pays sont ainsi identifiées (pionniers, intermédiaires et retardataires). Afin d’interpréter ces différences, six facteurs explicatifs sont discutés : la pratique de la Nouvelle Gestion Publique, le niveau des déficits budgétaires, les pressions externes, le type majoritaire ou consensuel ainsi que la struct…
Polity, Politics and Policy Evaluation in Belgium
This article examines the institutionalization of policy evaluation in Belgium. In comparison to other western democracies, policy evaluation is an underdeveloped tool of Belgian public governance. Among the explanatory factors of the laggard situation of Belgium, we focus on the all-pervasive phenomenon of partitocracy, on the relative weakness of Parliament vis-à-vis the government, and on the federalization process that is characteristic of th…
Institutional Vulnerability to Social Constructions
This article contributes to efforts to integrate power-based, institutionalist, and constructivist perspectives on policy making. Using an analysis of policy designs for assisted reproductive technology, the authors argue that jurisdictional federations are more vulnerable to social constructions based on widely held perceptions of social groups than functional federations and, to a lesser extent, unitary states. In fact, policy makers in jurisdi…
Regulating biomedicine in Europe and North America
This article explains the variation in policy design processes and the resulting policy‐outputs of ‘biopolicies’ implemented within the domain of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) for eleven European and North‐American countries. By applying the method of Qualitative Comparative Analysis, the comparison describes and defines the ‘multiple conjunctural causation’ to explain the divergences or similarities of ART policies in Europe and North A…
Policy with or without parties? A comparative analysis of policy priorities and policy change in Belgium, 1991 to 2000
This paper confronts two models of policy: the party model states that policy-making is an orderly process initiated by parties implementing their party programme and carrying out their electoral promises; the external pressure model contends that policy change is a non-orderly process but rather a disjoint process coming in large bursts that are difficult to predict. Drawing upon eight policy agendas in Belgium covering the period from 1991 to 2…
Régimes institutionnels de ressources et théorie de la régulation
Cet article postule que la combinaison d’une approche en termes de science politique (analyse des politiques publiques) et d’économie institutionnelle des ressources (théorie des droits de propriété) permet l’identification des dimensions régulatrices les plus importantes permettant d’expliquer l’usage (non) durable des ressources naturelles et culturelles. Sur cette base, il développe un cadre d’analyse novateur, celui des régimes institutionnel…
Europeanization of the French electricity policy
The European liberalization of the electricity sector led to four paradoxes in France. First, the transposition of European directives into French law has induced a clarification of the public service mandate; previously, its vague definition largely contributed to its quasi-sacrosanct status. Second, while the initial European impulse was to break down national monopolies, we observe that French groups still control the French market, currently …
Análisis y gestión de políticas públicas
Los autores de este libro, profesores de reconocido prestigio en universidades de Suiza, Francia y Espana, proponen diversas vias y dimensiones de analisis y gestion de politicas publicas, al mismo tiempo comprensibles y solidas, bien fundamentadas en multitud de ejemplos y experiencias concretas sacadas de los contextos de sus respectivos paises. Los temas de gobernanza, participacion social y las complejidades del ejercicio de gobierno en un es…
Institutional Resource Regimes
The Lamfalussy Reform in the EU Securities Markets
In 2000 a Committee of Wise Men chaired by Alexandre Lamfalussy, former president of the European Monetary Institute was appointed by the Economics and Finance Ministers Council to make recommendations on the regulation of the European securities markets. It proposed a four-level system to improve the legislative process while ensuring what it called a democratic and institutional balance. Our paper questions to what extent the concepts of two ba…
Punctuated Equilibrium and Agenda‐Setting
The article analyzes how focusing events affect the public and political agenda and translate into policy change. Empirically, the study focuses on the policy changes initiated by paedophile Marc Dutroux's arrest in 1996 in Belgium. Theoretically, the article tests whether Baumgartner and Jones's (1993) U.S. punctuated equilibrium approach applies to a most different system case, Belgium being a consociational democracy and a partitocracy. Their …
Les espaces fonctionnels
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, notamment sous la pression des impératifs de la durabilité, on assiste à l’émergence de nouvelles formes de régulation des rapports entre les sociétés et leur environnement et, plus précisément, des usages sociaux des ressources naturelles. Ces nouveaux modes de régulation, empiriquement observables, sont caractérisés par un mouvement conjoint de ré-articulation des logiques sectorielles, de redéfinition des périmèt…
Direct Legislation in North America and Europe
This article analyzes the impact of direct legislation, such as initiatives and referenda, on policies for agro-food and medical biotechnologies. Between 1980 and 2007, citizens around the world voted on biotechnology policies on 25 occasions. The analysis of these referenda and initiatives has shown that the mobilization of the popular initiative has proven to be an institution for successfully promoting more state intervention, in particular fo…
Biomedical Policies in Belgium and Italy
Belgium and Italy stand out within Western Europe as countries that have shown pronounced reluctance to regulate assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and embryo research in the 1980s and 1990s, while the new millennium brought about major public policy ‘punctuation’. Belgium has changed from a strategy of non-decision to a permissive regulation on embryos and ART practices. Italy has moved from a lack of ART regulation to a relatively restric…
A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets
We examine regularities and differences in public budgeting in comparative perspective. Budgets quantify collective political decisions made in response to incoming information, the preferences of decision makers, and the institutions that structure how decisions are made. We first establish that the distribution of budget changes in many Western democracies follows a non‐Gaussian distribution, the power function. This implies that budgets are hi…
Resigned but Satisfied
This article examines the relationship between red tape, Public Service Motivation (PSM) and a particular work outcome labelled ‘resigned satisfaction’. Using data from a national survey of over 3754 public servants working at the municipal level in Switzerland, this study shows the importance of looking more closely at the concept of work satisfaction and, furthermore, of thoroughly investigating the impact of the different PSM dimensions on wor…
Putting public service motivation into context
Research on Public Service Motivation (PSM) has increased enormously in the last 20 years. Besides the analysis of the antecedents of PSM and its impact on organizations and individuals, many open questions about the nature of PSM itself still remain. This article argues that the theoretical construct of PSM should be contextualized by integrating the political and administrative contexts of public servants when investigating their specific attit…
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