This article discusses one of the most important institutions in the modern world, namely
public bureaucracies, from a comparative perspective. Bureaucratic organizations can be …

Bureaucracy is everywhere. Unelected bureaucrats are a key link between government and
citizens, between policy and implementation. Bureaucratic politics constitutes a growing …

Research Summary In recent years, strategy scholarship expanded its scope beyond the
realm of private firms. Despite notable advances, the field still lacks theoretical and empirical …

Despite significant investment in anticorruption instruments in the past decades, confusion
about their effectiveness remains. While a growing body of scholarship claims that …

The scholarly literature on corruption has developed in separate disciplines, each of which
has produced important insights, but each of which also has some crucial limitations. We …

Canonical theories of bureaucracy demonstrate the need for enhanced monitoring in
government hierarchies. I argue that intensive top-down monitoring may reduce the …

The Corruption Eradication Commission is introducing new laws on corruption. However,
the crucial questions are whether the said laws effectively decrease corruption cases …

Indonesia has implemented administrative reforms in a variety of areas, including
reorganizing the structure of ministries and agencies. However, that effort has not yet yielded …

Abstract Both China and India are adopting information and communication technologies to
facilitate openness and transparency in their governments, and hence reduce corruption …

In environments of seemingly intractable conflict, how should we understand the role of state
capacity building and security-sector reform in transitions to peace? Prevailing wisdom …