Blar i BI Open på forfatter "Geys, Benny"
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Explaining Voter Turnout: A Meta-Analysis of National and Subnational Elections
Cancela, Joao; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Research about voter turnout has expanded rapidly in recent years. This article takes stock of this development by extending the meta-analysis of Geys (2006) in two main ways. First, we add 102 studies published between ... -
Family Ties and Socio-Economic Outcomes in High vs. Low Income Countries
Daniele, Gianmarco; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Alesina and Giuliano (J. Econ. Growth, 15(2), 2010) illustrate that strong family ties lead to lower geographical mobility and reduced labor force participation of young and female individuals. We extend their analysis by ... -
Fancy Seeing You Here…Again: Uncovering Individual-Level Panel Data in Repeated Cross-Sectional Surveys
Geys, Benny (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Many theories in Public Administration and Public Management explicitly relate to changes over time in the attitudes, values, perceptions, and/or motivations of public-sector employees. Examining such theories using ... -
Fiscal fairness as a political argument
Mahieu, Bram; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Governments typically apply several tax instruments. The tax choice literature sees the choice among these as depending on the political costs involved. One source of such costs is (horizontal) inequity in the distribution ... -
Follow the Leader? Leader Succession and Staff Attitudes in Public Sector Organizations.
Geys, Benny; Connolly, Sara Jane; Kassim, Hussein; Murdoch, Zuzana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Public sector organizations face regular turnover in top leadership positions. Yet little is known about how such changes affect staff attitudes. The authors argue that top leader succession may influence staff attitudes, ... -
How pre- and post-recruitment factors shape role perceptions of European Commission officials
Trondal, Jarle; Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Individuals' role perceptions are central guides to their behavior and choices as members of an organization. Understanding organizational dynamics thus requires knowledge about the determinants of such role perceptions, ... -
Identity, Threat Aversion, and Civil Servants' Policy Preferences: Evidence from in the European Parliament
Kuehnhanss, Colin; Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Distinct policy options are typically characterized by a number of advantages (or ‘opportunities’) and disadvantages (or ‘threats’). The preference for one option over another depends on how individuals within an organization ... -
Information, Perceptions, and Electoral Behaviour of Young Voters: A Randomised Controlled Experiment
Carvalho, Bruno; Custódio, Claudia; Geys, Benny; Mendes, Diogo; Peralta, Susana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The way people absorb and process politically relevant information is central to their subsequent political behaviour (in terms of turnout and vote choice). Nonetheless, little is known about how young voters – who might ... -
Institutional dynamics in international organizations: Lessons from the recruitment procedures of the European External Action Service
Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article examines how organisational designs develop by proposing a novel theoretical framework that views organisational change as resulting from a dialectic process between interpretive agents. The key claim is that ... -
Instrumental calculation, cognitive role-playing, or both? Self-perceptions of seconded national experts in the European Commission
Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)Most work studying micro-processes of integration – i.e. how agents develop identities and decision-making behaviours within a particular institution – offers explanations based on either instrumental rationality or ... -
Interpersonal trust and welfare state support
Daniele, Gianmarco; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The economic importance of the welfare state has increased strongly over time, which has generated a vast academic literature studying the determinants of (preferences towards) redistribution. This article argues that ... -
Intra-organizational Mobility and Employees’ Work-related Contact Patterns: Evidence from Panel Data in the European Commission
Vantaggiato, Francesca; Murdoch, Zuzana; Kassim, Hussein; Geys, Benny; Connolly, Sara Jane (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Programs to encourage staff to move within public-sector organizations have become increasingly widespread in recent decades. Yet, although there are some anecdotal accounts, the effects of such intraorganizational mobility ... -
Intraorganizational mobility and employees’ work-related contact patterns: evidence from panel data in the European Commission
Vantaggiato, Francesca P.; Murdoch, Zuzana; Kassim, Hussein; Geys, Benny; Connolly, Sara Jane (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Programs to encourage staff to move within public-sector organizations have become increasingly widespread in recent decades. Yet, although there are some anecdotal accounts, the effects of such intraorganizational mobility ... -
It’s About Time! Temporal Dynamics and Longitudinal Research Designs in Public Administration
Murdoch, Zuzana; MacCarthaigh, Muiris; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)We are grateful to Tobias Bach, Germà Bel, Barry Burden, Julia Fleischer, Klaus Goetz, Fabian Hattke, Per Lægreid, Ken Meier, Rune Sørensen, Jan Wynen, and Susan Webb Yackee for insightful discussions. Zuzana Murdoch is ... -
Legitimacy Crises and the Temporal Dynamics of Bureaucratic Representation
Murdoch, Zuzana; Connolly, Sara Jane; Kassim, Hussein; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The representation of specific groups and social interests within (or by) the civil service has long been a concern of public administration scholarship. Yet, much of this literature focuses on representation at a single ... -
Limitations of the KISS principle and a strong organizational society: a rejoinder to Wollebaek and Selle
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)In their discussion of my article, Dag Wollebaek and Per Selle agree with my central point that changes in the institutional and socio-political context are likely to affect the engagement-values relation over time, and ... -
Local government efficiency in German municipalities
Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This article evaluates German local governments’ cost efficiency using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of Baden-Württemberg for the year 2001. We thereby concentrate on overall or ‘global’ efficiency scores – ... -
Looks good, you’re hired? Evidence from extra-parliamentary activities of German parliamentarians
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Politicians have been shown to benefit electorally from an attractive physical appearance. Employing data on 614 German MPs, this note explores whether it also affects their success/failure in the market for extra-parliamentary ... -
Moonlighting politicians: a survey and research agenda
Geys, Benny; Mause, Karsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)Elected representatives in many countries are legally allowed to carry out (un)paid jobs in addition to their political mandate, often referred to as ‘moonlighting’. Despite the important selection and incentive effects ... -
Never Change a Winning Policy? Public Sector Performance and Politicians’ Preferences for Reforms
Geys, Benny; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Despite the increasing stress on performance in public sector organizations, there is still little empirical evidence on whether—and if so, how—politicians respond to performance information. This article addresses this ...