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Safeguarding Merit: Citizen Support for Civil Service Protections Against Political Interference

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT President Trump altered the U.S. federal civil service system by reducing merit‐based protections for bureaucratic expertise and expanding the scope of political appointments, shifting the balance long established under the Pendleton Act of 1883. Similar reforms have occurred at the state level with moves to at‐will employment.
Colt Jensen, Jaclyn Piatak
wiley   +1 more source

Governance Structures, Political Change and Executive Turnover in State‐Owned Enterprises: Evidence From Chile

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To address the shortcomings associated with state ownership, countries have implemented various legal strategies to curb political influence in state‐owned enterprises. This research studies whether these strategies constrain the government's ability to use their appointment powers for political considerations.
Pablo Torres
wiley   +1 more source

A Study On The Effects Of Nepotism, Favoritism And Cronyism On Organizational Trust In The Auditing Process In Family Businesses In Turkey

International Business & Economics Research Journal (IBER), 2011
Nepotism, favoritism and cronyism, which can be seen in all sectors of todays business world, have become quite common behavior. The granting of privileges to certain individuals is an extremely disturbing situation to the organizations employees and the lack of trust arising under such conditions negatively affects job satisfaction, organizational ...
Hatice Necla Keles, Tugba Kural Ozkan, Muhammet Bezirci   +2 more
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Moving Forward, Never Backwards: Preventing Fraud In the European Union and Defining European Central Bank Independence [PDF]

, 2003
Part I of this Note will describe the need for anti-fraud measures within the Community. Part I will also detail the various legislative actions taken by the Commission, the Parliament and Council, and by the ECB and by the EIB to combat fraud.
Reader, Shaun A.
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Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
wiley   +1 more source

Does the Perception of Organizational Cronyism Leads to Career Satisfaction or Frustration with Work? The Mitigating Role of Organizational Commitment

Research in Applied Economics, 2015
<p>The concept of organizational cronyism has been investigated to explain different concepts in<br />the literature. In this study, we aim at researching the influence of organizational cronyism on<br />organizational commitment of individuals and explain how the influence differentiates their<br />career satisfaction or ...
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Recommendations for the Curbing of Corruption, Cronyism, Nepotism, & Fraud in the European Commission [PDF]

, 2000
The European Commission consists of twenty appointed members including a Commission President, and serves primarily as a policy initiator and administrator for the European Union.
Li, Kelly
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Institutions and Multinational Ownership Strategy [PDF]

This paper examines the impact of institutions on a multinational firm’s ownership strategy. We develop an international joint venture (IJV) model in which a multinational firm and its local partner both can undertake costly ex post actions to increase ...
Ari Van Assche, Galina A. Schwartz
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Blockchain for the Arts and Humanities

Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT As born‐digital cultural materials proliferate, the arts and humanities require infrastructures that guarantee provenance, authenticity, and equitable access. This paper delivers a comprehensive, critical survey of blockchain's potential and limits across the sector.
James O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source