Corruption, Bureaucratic Failure and Social Policy Priorities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6345239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carl Dahlström (0000-0003-4996-2449, University of Gothenburg), Johannes Lindvall (0000-0002-1765-9288, Lund University), Bo Rothstein (University of Gothenburg) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 523-542 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00998.x |
| OpenAlex | W1963099768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 54 |
This article argues that bureaucratic capacity – the competence and reliability of the national bureaucracy – matters to the allocation of public spending among welfare state programmes since it is difficult for governments to justify high levels of spending on programmes that require bureaucrats to make case-by-case decisions, on a discretionary basis, if the bureaucracy is incompetent, corrupt or both. We expect bureaucratic capacity to have a positive effect on programmes that involve bureaucratic discretion, but weak or no effects on programmes that are more straightforward to implement. In order to test these hypotheses, we analyse public spending on active labour market programmes (which involve a lot of discretion) and parental leave benefits (which involve less discretion). Relying on data for twenty advanced democracies from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, we find that high bureaucratic capacity does have a positive effect on active labour market policy spending, but not on parental leave benefits
Bureaucracy · Competence (human resources · Discretion · Economics · Language change · Market economy · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Welfare · Corruption and Economic Development · Finance · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Phenomenology Analysis of Functional Bureaucratic in Budget Abuse
Determinants of labour market institutions and their reforms from the perspective of economics and political science
Controlling Corruption
Does corruption shape attitudes towards carbon taxes? Experimental evidence from Mexico and Sweden
Corruption – Poverty Nexus
Trusting other people
How to induce honesty
Policy capacity
Policy Learning, Policy Failure, and the Mitigation of Policy Risks
Extending a Hand
From big data to higher bureaucratic capacity
The Share of Carbon Emissions by the Non-Rich and Support for Higher Environmental Taxes in Cross-National and Longitudinal Perspective
Does clientelism hinder progressive social policy in Latin America
Governance and administration in Sri Lanka
Quality of government and public support for taxation for climate change mitigation
Government instability and the state
Beyond government size
Reward or Punish? Understanding Preferences toward Economic or Regulatory Instruments in a Cross-National Perspective
Corruption, fairness, and inequality
Fresh pipes with dirty water
The Historical Roots of Corruption
Explaining perceptions of autonomy in the last chain of delegation
The limits of democracy in tackling climate change
The contingent effects of environmental concern and ideology
The Personal and the Political
State Structures and the Possibilities for “Keynesian” Responses to the Great Depression in Sweden, Britain, and the United States
Institutions and Economic Performance
Prologue
Family policies in Europe
Families, States and Labour Markets
Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
Just Institutions Matter
Gender, Equality and Welfare States
Coping With Permanent Austerity Welfare State Restructuring in Affluent Democracies
Coping with Permanent Austerity
The unpublished manuscript
Controlling Corruption
Welfarism and the multidimensionality of welfare state legitimacy
Decommodification and activation in social democratic policy
The Privatization Decision
Commitment to Welfare
The politics of the new social policies
Conditions of intergovernmental armaments cooperation in Western Europe, 1996–2006
The private consequences of public policies
Descriptive Representation, Policy Outcomes, and Municipal Day-Care Coverage in Norway
Welfare-State Retrenchment Revisited
An Integrated Model of Women's Representation
Who should get what, and why? On deservingness criteria and the conditionality of solidarity among the public
The Determinants of State Legitimacy
Active labour market policy, international organizations and domestic politics
Gender Equality and Intrastate Armed Conflict
The Bureaucratic Politics of Welfare‐State Crisis
Employment Performance in OECD Countries
Institutional Choices and Labor Market Policy
Women in Parliaments
Political Partisanship and Welfare State Reform in Advanced Industrial Societies
The Influence of Women's Political Power on Bureaucratic Output
Social Democracy and Active Labour-Market Policies
The State and Social Capital
Does the Organization of Capital Matter? Employers and Active Labor Market Policy at the National and Firm Levels
A Public Transformed? Welfare Reform as Policy Feedback
What To Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data
Partisan Governance, Women's Employment, and the Social Democratic Service State
Party systems, electoral systems and constraints on corruption
Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions
New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of Austerity and Globalization
Freedom and Normalization
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |