Blar i Publikasjoner fra CRIStin - BI på forfatter "Geys, Benny"
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Are Female Legislators Different? Exploring Sex Differences in German MPs’ Outside Interests
Geys, Benny; Mause, Karsten (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This article examines whether sex matters with respect to a type of legislator behaviour that has thus far been neglected in the literature analysing the distinctive nature of female and male legislators: parliamentarians' ... -
Bargaining Complexity and the Duration of Government Formation: Evidence from Flemish Municipalities
Blockmans, Tom; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno; Mahieu, Bram (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Government formation processes have attracted a substantial amount of scholarly attention. Yet, only few scholars try to explain the duration of government formations. This article extends the latter literature by examining ... -
Better Not Look Too Nice? Employees’ Preferences Towards (Un)Likeable Managers
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Recent research shows that, all else equal, most people prefer likeable colleagues. In this article, two experiments are employed to analyze preferences with respect to (un)likeable ssuperiors. We thereby focus on perceptions ... -
Comparing the effect of cross-group friendship on generalized trust to its effect on prejudice: The mediating role of threat perceptions and negative affect
Achbari, Wahideh; Doosje, Bert Jan; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Intergroup relations theory posits that cross-group friendship reduces threat perceptions and negative emotions about outgroups. This has been argued to mitigate the negative effects of ethnic diversity on generalized ... -
David and Goliath in the Poll Booth: Group Size, Political Power and Voter Turnout
Bönisch, Peter; Geys, Benny; Michelsen, Claus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article analyses how the presence of a dominant group of voters within the electorate affects voter turnout. Theoretically, we argue that its absolute size affects turnout via increased free-riding incentives and ... -
Do Voluntary Associations Show their Bright or Dark Side under Adverse Societal Shocks? Evidence from 9/11
Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)In this article, we reassess the relation between association membership and individuals’ feelings about immigrants, thereby focusing on possible shifts in this relation in the wake of negative societal shocks (i.e., the ... -
Economic Integration, Corporate Tax Incidence and Fiscal Compensation
Exbrayat, Nelly; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Higher corporate taxes are often argued to depress wages (a tax incidence effect), while higher wages may require compensation via lower corporate tax rates (a fiscal compensation effect). Yet, existing empirical evidence ... -
Expectations, Realizations, and Approval of Tablet Computers in an Educational Setting
Hassan, Mamdouh; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The introduction of new technologies in classrooms is often thought to offer great potential for advancing learning. In this article, we investigate the relationship between such expectations and the post-implementation ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
On Trojan Horses and revolving doors: Assessing the autonomy of national officials in the European Commission
Trondal, Jarle; Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Abstract. National officials working in international bureaucracies regularly invokes the fear that member-states strategically use such officials for influencing decision-making and agenda-setting to their advantage. ... -
Organizational Stability and Resocialization in Public Administrations: Theory and Evidence from Norwegian Civil Servants (1986-2016)
Geys, Benny; Lægreid, Per; Murdoch, Zuzana; Trondal, Jarle (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The organizational theory approach to public administration emphasizes that organizational features of public bureaucracies shape civil servants' role perceptions and opinions. This study brings forward a novel refinement ... -
Organized Crime, Institutions and Political Quality: Empirical Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Daniele, Gianmarco; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)This article assesses how legal institutions affect the influence of politically active criminal organisations on the human capital of elected politicians using data from over 1,500 Southern Italian municipalities in the ... -
Partial Fiscal Decentralization and Subnational Government Fiscal Discipline: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries
Asatryan, Zareh; Feld, Lars P.; Geys, Benny (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Recent theoretical research suggests that financing sub-national governments’ expenditure out of own revenue sources is linked to more responsible budgeting, because the financial implications of spending decisions then ...