Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123389 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
WWZ Working Paper No. 07/08
Publisher: 
University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ), Basel
Abstract: 
This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public administration and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of bureaucrats in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed political neutrality of the public service and generates a con ict of interest. We present a cost-bene t calculus and analyze speci c legal provisions for the German Laender to understand the selection of public servants into parliaments. Based on a novel data set, we nd that incompatibility rules decrease and abeyance compensation increases the fraction of public servants in Laender parliaments.
Subjects: 
Political selection
parliamentary election
public servants
incompatibility
JEL: 
D72
D73
H11
H83
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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