{"id":762,"date":"2019-10-27T15:07:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T19:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=762"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:30:04","slug":"blog-why-some-states-are-so-much-more-effective-implementing-policy-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/blog-why-some-states-are-so-much-more-effective-implementing-policy-than-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Summary: Why Some States are So Much More Effective at Implementing Policy Than Others"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\tBlog: Governance and Institutions\n\t<\/h4>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tVoxDev: “Why Some States Are So Much More Effective at Implementing Policy Than Others”\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\tBy Michael Best, Jonas Hjort, and David Szakonyi\n\t<\/h3>\n

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First posted on September 18, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best, Szakonyi and Hjort (2017) utilize state procurement as an outcome variable to evaluate bureaucratic efficacy in Russia from 2011 to 2015, much in the way that diagnostics of effectiveness in firms measured by indicators such as sales, costs and profits would suggest where a firm can be improving.<\/p>\n

They find that individual bureaucrats and organizations have a large impact on whether purchases are cost-effective or not, accounting for up to 60% of the total variation.<\/p>\n

This suggests that individuals matter, and that policy design that might be beneficial for the top performers would be detrimental to the laggards, and vice versa. The broader takeaway is that a little bit of ingenuity, and making recommendations according to the recipient and their current abilities, might be more effective than just issuing blanket recommendations.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the Executive Summary on VoxDev\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t

Citation for the full article:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best, M, J Hjort and D Szakonyi (2017), \u201cIndividuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy Design<\/a>\u201d, CEPR Discussion Paper<\/em> No. 11968.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDownload the full article\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this executive summary, Best, Szakonyi and Hjort write about a 2017 article in which they utilized state procurement as an outcome variable to evaluate bureaucratic efficacy in Russia, much in the way that diagnostics of effectiveness in firms measured by indicators such as sales, costs and profits would suggest where a firm can be improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":1372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[77,60,309,95,89,80,82],"tags":[246,531,245,244,315,532],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-30-minutes","category-content-type","category-executive-summaries","category-governance-institutions-and-political-economy-research","category-browse-by-research-topic","category-research-by-region","category-europe-and-central-asia","tag-bureaucracy","tag-capcity-building","tag-public-procurement","tag-russia","tag-voxdev","tag-voxdev-org"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}