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Last updated: November 26, 2024
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Christian Schuster is professor in public management at University College London. His core research interest lies in data and civil service management. His research is widely published, with more than 70 publications, and he has won a range of awards, including the 2018 Haldane Prize for the best article published in Public Administration. He cofounded the Global Survey of Public Servants, coleads the Centre for People Analytics in Government, and has collaborated in his research with more than 30 governments, as well as a range of international organizations. He was previously an economist with the World Bank and a visiting research scholar with the Inter-American Development Bank. He holds a PhD in government from the London School of Economics.
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Publication Manual de Analítica Gubernamental: Aprovechar los datos para fortalecer la Administración Pública(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-11-26) Rogger, Daniel; Schuster, ChristianEl Manual de Analítica Gubernamental (Government Analytics Handbook) presenta evidencia innovadora e ideas de profesionales sobre cómo aprovechar los datos para fortalecer la administración pública. Abarca una amplia gama de fuentes de microdatos —como datos administrativos y encuestas de empleados públicos—, así como herramientas y recursos para realizar los análisis, para transformar la capacidad de los gobiernos para adoptar un enfoque basado en datos para diagnosticar y mejorar el funcionamiento de las organizaciones públicas. Esta versión ha sido traducida por el Centro Latinoamericano de Administración para el Desarrollo (CLAD) y contiene una selección de siete capítulos que abordan temas fundamentales para América América Latina y el Caribe.Publication The Government Analytics Handbook: Leveraging Data to Strengthen Public Administration(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2023-09-28) Rogger, Daniel; Schuster, Christian; editorsThe Government Analytics Handbook presents frontier evidence and practitioner insights on how to leverage data to strengthen public administration. Covering a range of microdata sources—such as administrative data and public servant surveys—as well as tools and resources for undertaking the analytics, it transforms the ability of governments to take a data-informed approach to diagnose and improve how public organizations work. Readers can order the book as a single volume in print or digital formats, or visit: worldbank.org/governmentanalytics, for modular access and additional hands-on tools. The Handbook is a must-have for practitioners, policy makers, academics, and government agencies. - “Governments have long been assessed using aggregate governance indicators, giving us little insight into their diversity and how they can practically be improved. This pioneering handbook shows how microdata can be used to give scholars and practitioners granular and real insights into how states work, and practical guidance on the process of state-building.” —Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University, author of State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century - "The Government Analytics Handbook is the most comprehensive work on practically building government administration I have ever seen, helping practitioners to change public administration for the better.” —Francisco Gaetani, Special Secretary for State Transformation, Government of Brazil - “The machinery of the state is central to a country’s prosperity. This handbook provides insights and methodological tools for creating a better shared understanding of the realities of a state, to support the redesign of institutions, and improve the quality of public administration.” —James Robinson, University of Chicago, coauthor of Why Nations FailPublication The Global Survey of Public Servants: A Foundation for Research on Public Servants around the World(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2023-03) Schuster, Christian; Mikkelsen, Kim Sass; Rogger, Daniel; Fukuyama, Francis; Hasnain, Zahid; Mistree, Dinsha; Meyer-Sahling, Jan; Bersch, Katherine; Kay, Kerenssa; Rogger, Daniel; Schuster, ChristianHow do civil service management practices differ within and across governments? How do core attitudes of public servants—such as their motivation or satisfaction—differ within and across governments? Understanding how public administrations around the world function and differ is crucial for strengthening their effectiveness. Most comparative measures of bureaucracy rely on surveys of experts, households, or firms, rather than directly questioning bureaucrats. Direct surveys of public officials enable governments to benchmark themselves and scholars to study comparative public administration and the state differently, based on micro-data from actors who experience government first-hand. This paper introduces the Global Survey of Public Servants, a global initiative to collect and harmonize large-scale, comparable survey data on public servants. The Global Survey of Public Servants can help scholars compare public administrations around the world and understand the internal dynamics of governments, with the published Global Survey of Public Servants data freely available online.Publication Cutting Costs, Boosting Quality and Collecting Data Real-Time : Lessons from a Cell Phone-Based Beneficiary Survey to Strengthen Guatemala’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program(World Bank, Washington, DC, 2011-02) Schuster, Christian; Perez Brito, Carlos; Schuster, ChristianA 2010 country governance and Anti-Corruption (CGAC) funded pilot in Guatemala employed entry-level mobile phones in conjunction with Episurveyor, a free, web-based software for data collection, to drastically reduce costs, facilitate accuracy and accelerate implementation of a nationally-representative beneficiary survey of Guatemala's conditional cash transfer program. As such it illustrates the potential of mobile phone-based data collection to strengthen program monitoring, evaluation and implementation, in particular in remote and marginalized areas highly populated by indigenous peoples.Publication Together Towards Transparency : Lessons from the Implementation of the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST) Pilot in Guatemala(2011-06) Schuster, Christian; Abreu, Anabela; Schuster, ChristianPublicly financed construction is a key driver for economic growth and poverty reduction worldwide. At the same time, it is a sector unusually prone to corruption, not least due to large opportunities for rent extraction and the technical complexity of infrastructure investments. Transparency international's bribe payer's index ranks construction as the sector most likely to bribe public officials and seek state capture, and an estimated 10-30 percent of the US$5 trillion spent annually on construction worldwide is lost to corruption. Guatemala joined Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST) as an associate country with support from the World Bank in November 2009. As such, it differed from pilot countries in two respects. As CoST Guatemala moves from pilot to expansion in July 2011, it is hoped that the aforementioned success factors will allow the initiative to amplify this effect-and further enhance transparency in a sector so crucial to the country's development.Publication The East Asian Financial Crisis : Fallout for Private Power Projects(World Bank, Washington, DC, 1998-08) Gray, R. David; Schuster, John; Schuster, ChristianThe authors discuss the impact of the East Asian financial crisis on the power sectors of four of the most severely affected economies-Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand. For each country the authors examine the impact of the crisis on the cost of private power and the knock-on effects on retail tariffs. They also assess the sustainability of current private power programs, which hinges on the level of government risk exposure, the method used in awarding contracts, and the changed capacity needs in the wake of slowing or negative GDP growth.