dc.contributor.advisor | Meier, Kenneth J. | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Taylor-Robinson, Michelle M. | |
dc.creator | Petrovsky, Nicolai | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-16T00:08:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-01-16T00:08:25Z | |
dc.date.created | 2009-05 | |
dc.date.issued | 2010-01-16 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-598 | |
dc.description.abstract | The theoretical argument of this dissertation contains a set of conditions under
which professional personnel systems serve as political tools to make government efforts
to implement public policies credible and reliable, and thus to protect democracy. The
dissertation includes two empirical applications, which constitute critical cases for the
theoretical argument. The first is a case study of the new merit system for the higher
echelons of Mexico's federal public administration. It is based on Mexican academic
literature, elite interviews conducted in November 2007, and quantitative analysis of
personnel data. The second is a test of the hypothesis that officers operating under merit
system protections create stability, using panel data on English local governments in the
1950s and 1960s. It is based on analysis of a panel covering budget shares and political
party control. Overall, the findings from both empirical applications lend support to the
theoretical argument. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.subject | political science | en |
dc.subject | public administration | en |
dc.title | Credible Commitments in Policy and Administration | en |
dc.type | Book | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
thesis.degree.department | Political Science | en |
thesis.degree.discipline | Political Science | en |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas A&M University | en |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Escobar-Lemmon, Maria C. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Rogers, James R. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Taylor, Lori L. | |
dc.type.genre | Electronic Dissertation | en |