Rewards for high public office in Europe and North America / / edited by Marleen Brans and B. Guy Peters

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812411603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-68409-7; 9786613661036; 1-136-32308-2; 0-203-12072-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Collana: Routledge research in comparative politics ; ; 49
• Altri autori (Persone): BransM (Marleen); PetersB. Guy
• Disciplina: 331.2/166
• Soggetti: Public officers - Salaries, etc; Civil service - Salaries, etc; Government executives - Salaries, etc; Comparative government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface; Contributors; 1 Rewards for high public office: Continuing developments; 2 Rewards at the top: Cross-country comparisons across offices and over time; 3 Rewards at the top in UK central government; 4 RHPOs in Ireland: Ratcheting pay in the public sector; 5 Rewards for high public office in the United States; 6 Rewards for high public office in France: Still the century of privileges?; 7 Rewards for high public office: The case of Italy; 8 Rewards for high public offices in Spain (1990-2009): Incremental changes following the pattern of the civil service9 Rewards at the top in Belgium: Uneasy struggles with transparency and variability in paying public office; 10 Rewards for high public office in the Netherlands; 11 Rewards for high public office: The case of Norway; 12 Rewards for high public office in Sweden; 13 Starting from scratch: Rewards for high public office in Estonia; 14 Rewards for high public offices in Hungary; 15 Bureaucracy and rewards in Romania; 16 Into the labyrinth: The rewards for high public office in Slovakia17 Rewards at the top: The European Union; 18 Conclusion: Choosing public sector rewards; Appendix - Basic data on RHPO in 15 countries and the EU institutions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Anyone observing the recent scandals in the United Kingdom could not fail to understand the political importance of the rewards of high public office. The British experience has been extreme but by no means unique, and many countries have experienced political over the pay and perquisites of public officials. This book addresses an important element of public governance, and does so in longitudinal and comparative manner. The approach enables the contributors to make a number of key statements not only about the development of political systems but also about the differences among th