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Performance, pay and promotion: implementing a Weberian bureaucracy in nineteenth century Baden

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Author	Selgert, Felix
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This paper is based on the difference between the formal introduction of a Weberian bureaucracy and its actual implementation through state officials. This difference between the formal institutional framework and its actual implementation could lead to failed reforms. On the other side, there were states which successfully introduced a Weberian bureaucracy like the German state of Baden in the nineteenth century. This paper argues that Civil Service reforms in Baden during the first two decades of the nineteenth century established an internal labor market with a hierarchy of pay levels and clearly defined rules of promotion. These rules of promotion made advancement in the hierarchy, and therefore, an increase in remuneration, inter alia dependent on the performance in regard to administrative processes and rules of professional conduct. This rule generated an incentive to implement the new formal institutional framework, because sticking to the rules led to a monetary reward. The paper tests this hypothesis empirically using a logit as well as a panel regression approach. In doing so, I find that a positive assessment about a district magistrate’s (Amtmann) performance in regard to formal administrative processes and rules of professional conduct increased his probability of promotion by 81 %. The paper also finds incentive mechanisms like a shirking wage. However, it seems that the sound working of these incentive mechanisms took ca. two decades.
Starting Page	79
Ending Page	113
Page Count	35
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18632505
Journal	Cliometrica
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	18632513
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2013-05-07
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Institutional reform Administration Incentive mechanism Public labor markets Weberian bureaucracy Economic Theory History Econometrics Methodology and the History of Economic Thought
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History Economics and Econometrics

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