In the article, “Merit, Tenure, and Bureaucratic Behavior: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment in the Dominican Republic,” Schuster and Oliveros find that merit exams to enter the civil service help reduce corruption and increase work motivation, while tenure security makes bureaucrats less likely to participate in electoral spheres. In order to determine this, they used a conjoint experiment model which helped them asses how bureaucrats reacted and interacted with topics like corruption, political services, and work motivation. This has great implications for many developing countries as it outlines concrete actions that can be taken to enhance state capacity.
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