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Development Discussion Paper

Organisation form and river quality: Theory and evidence from China

Linchuan Xu

Should the government set up a separate ministry for all environmental issues, or ask all the existing decentralized and regional political organizations to have an environment mandate? This paper studies how organizatio...Read more...

15 November 2023

CASEbrief

Caught between the local and the (trans)national: EU citizens at the front-line of German welfare policy

Nora Ratzmann

The study reflected on what happens when EU migrant applicants claim poverty-relieving, non-contributory UB II benefits in local German job centres. The data challenged the common pretence of EU policy debates that the s...Read more...

20 January 2020

CASEpaper

Beyond Radicalism and Resignation: The Competing Logics for Public Participation in Policy Decisions

Rikki Dean

From the World Bank to the Occupy Movement, support for greater citizen participation in social policy decisions has become ubiquitous. This paper argues that existing typologies of participation are problematic in that ...Read more...

12 December 2014

Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper

Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service

Imran Rasul and Daniel Rogger

We study how the management practices that bureaucrats operate under, correlate to the quantity and quality of public services delivered. We do so in a developing country context, exploiting data from the Nigerian Civil ...Read more...

20 February 2014

International Studies Paper

Weaknesses in Japan’s Postwar Politics

Reiko Oyama and Tomoki Takeda

Discusses Japan’s political immobilism caused by lack of strong ministerial leadership and failure of reform initiatives. Attributes it to the power of factions within political parties which reforms have failed to break...Read more...

1 June 2010