Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling

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Biography

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling joined the University of Nottingham in September 2004. He received his MSc in European Politics and Policy and his PhD in Government from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to joining Nottingham, he was a Tutorial Fellow in Comparative Public Administration and Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Lecturer in European Politics at Birkbeck College, London. In 2007/2008, Jan-Hinrik was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In 2013/2014, he was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute. He has been a Professor of Political Science since 2015.

Teaching Summary

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Modules cover the areas of comparative politics, comparative public administration and public policy, development studies and… read more

Research Summary

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling's research concentrates on public administration and public policy in Europe and in developing countries. He has focused on civil service reform in Central and Eastern Europe… read more

Recent Publications

• HARRIS, ADAM, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2022. Activating the ‘African Big Man’: Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY. In press
• SIGMAN, RACHEL, HARRIS, ADAM, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2022. Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES. In press
• MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS, SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK and WETTIG, MAGDALENA ROJAS, 2021. Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW.
• SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS, CORREA, IZABELA and MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, 2021. Exit, Voice, Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY. Early online view

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PhD supervision

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling welcomes applications for the supervision of PhD students with interest in comparative European politics, public administration, public policy and anti-corruption in Europe and in developing countries. If you have any questions regarding potential PhD supervision, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Modules cover the areas of comparative politics, comparative public administration and public policy, development studies and research design and methods in political science.

Current Research

Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling's research concentrates on public administration and public policy in Europe and in developing countries. He has focused on civil service reform in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans in the context of post-communist transformation and European integration. He has collaborated on several occasions with SIGMA-OECD and the Regional School of Public Administration based in the Western Balkans (ReSPA).

Most recently, he led a project on 'Civil Service Reform and Anti-Corruption in Developing Countries' that was funded by the DfID and the British Academy. He currently leads a project on 'Can Ethics Training Reduce Corruption in the Civil Service', which involves the design and implementation of ethics and integrity trainings with civil servants in Nepal and Bangladesh. The project is funded by the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme.

• HARRIS, ADAM, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2022. Activating the ‘African Big Man’: Social Status, Patronage Networks and Pro-Social Behavior in African Bureaucracies JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY. In press
• SIGMAN, RACHEL, HARRIS, ADAM, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2022. Do Bureaucrats Contribute to the Resource Curse? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in New Oil States JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES. In press
• MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS, SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK and WETTIG, MAGDALENA ROJAS, 2021. Bureaucratic Professionalization is a Contagious Process Inside Government: Evidence from a Priming Experiment with 3,000 Chilean Civil Servants PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW.
• SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS, CORREA, IZABELA and MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, 2021. Exit, Voice, Sabotage: Public Service Motivation and Guerrilla Bureaucracy in Times of Unprincipled Political Principals JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY. Early online view
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2021. Merit recruitment, tenure protections and public service motivation: Evidence from a conjoint experiment with 7,300 public servants in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. 99(4), 740-757
• MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS, SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN and MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, 2021. A cross-cultural basis for public service? Public service motivation measurement invariance in an original survey of 23,000 public servants in ten countries and four world regions INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL. 24(6), 739-761
• SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK and MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS, 2020. (Un)Principled Principals, (Un)Principled Agents: The Differential Effects of Managerial Civil Service Reforms on Corruption in Developing and OECD Countries GOVERNANCE: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. 33(4), 829 – 848
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK and MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS, 2020. Codes of Ethics, Disciplinary Codes, and the Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Frameworks: Evidence from a Survey of Civil Servants in Poland REVIEW OF PUBLIC PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION.
• HARRIS, ADAM S., SIGMAN, RACHEL, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2020. Oiling the bureaucracy? political spending, bureaucrats and the resource curse WORLD DEVELOPMENT. 127,
• SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, WEITZMAN, LAUREN, SASS MIKKELSEN, KIM, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN, BERSCH, KATHERINE, FUKUYAMA, FRANCIS, PASKOV, PATRICIA, ROGGER, DANIEL, MISTREE, DINSHA and KAY, KERENSSA, 2020. Responding to COVID-19 Through Surveys of Public Servants. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW. 80(5), 792 – 796
• MORGAN-COLLINS, MONA and MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, 2020. Stepping out of the Shadow of the Past: How Career Attributes Shape Ministerial Stability in Post-communist Democracies EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS. 37(2), 311 - 331
• BACH, TOBIAS, MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK and STARONOVA, KATARINA, 2020. Top Officials in Turbulent Times: Converging Research Agendas in Europe East and West NISPACEE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY. 13(2), 25-34
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK and TOTH, FANNI, 2020. Governing Illiberal Democracies: Democratic Backsliding and the Political Appointment of Top Officials in Hungary NISPACEE JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY. 13(2), 93-113
• CORREA, IZABELA, CAMOES, MARIZAURA, MEYER-SAHLING, JANS, MIKKELSEN, KIM and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2020. Distortions of incentive to performance and reduction of motivation in the federal public service in Brazil REVISTA DO SERVICO PUBLICO. 71(3), 476-503
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2019. The Causal Effect of Public Service Motivation on Ethical Behavior in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey Experiment JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY. 29(3), 445–459
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS and SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN, 2018. Civil service management and corruption: What we know and what we don't PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. 96(2), 276-285
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, 2017. Bureaucracies in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans. In: FAGAN, ADAM and KOPECKY, PETR, eds., Handbook of East European Politics Routledge. 126 – 138
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, LOWE, WILL and VAN STOLK, CHRISTIAN, 2016. Silent professionalization: EU integration and the professional socialization of public officials in Central and Eastern Europe EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS. 17(1), 162-183
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK and MIKKELSEN, KIM SASS, 2016. CIVIL SERVICE LAWS, MERIT, POLITICIZATION, AND CORRUPTION: THE PERSPECTIVE OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS FROM FIVE EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. 94(4), 1105-1123
• KOPECKY, PETR, SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK MEYER, PANIZZA, FRANCISCO, SCHERLIS, GERARDO, SCHUSTER, CHRISTIAN and SPIROVA, MARIA, 2016. Party patronage in contemporary democracies: Results from an expert survey in 22 countries from five regions EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH. 55(2), 416-431
• JAN-HINRIK MEYER-SAHLING, BARBARA JANTA, IVETA REINHOLDE and CHRISTIAN VAN STOLK, 2016. Hidden costs of cuts: Austerity, civil service management and the motivation of public officials in Central and Eastern Europe after the crisis EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMICS. 5(2),
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK and VAN STOLK, CHRISTIAN, 2015. A CASE OF PARTIAL CONVERGENCE: THE EUROPEANIZATION OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. 93(1), 230-247
• HEYWOOD, P.M. and MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2013. Danger zones of corruption: how management of the ministerial bureaucracy affects corruption risks in Poland Public Administration and Development. 33(3), 191-204
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H. and VEEN, T., 2012. Governing the post-communist state: government alternation and senior civil service politicisation in Central and Eastern Europe East European Politics. 28(1), 4-22
• GOETZ, K.H. and MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., eds., 2012. The EU Timescape Routledge.
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H. and JAGER, K., 2012. Capturing the State: Party Patronage in Hungary. In: KOPECKY, P., MAIR, P. and SPIROVA, M., eds., Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies Oxford University Press.
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., VASS, L. and VASSNE VARGA, E., 2012. Rewards for High Public Office: Hungary. In: BRANS, M. and PETERS, B.G., eds., Rewards for High Public Office in Europe and North America Routledge.
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, 2012. Civil Service Professionalization in the Western Balkans OECD.
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2011. The durability of EU civil service policy in Central and Eastern Europe after accession Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions. 24(2), 231-260
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H. AND YESILKAGIT, K., 2011. Differential Legacy Effects: Three Propositions on the Impact of Historical Legacies on Administrative Reform in Europe East and West Journal of European Public Policy. 18(2), 311-322
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2010. In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations and Administrative Reform in East Central Europe. In: PAINTER, M. AND PETERS, B.G., ed., Administrative Traditions: Inheritances and Transplants in Comparative Perspective Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• MEYER-SAHLING, JAN-HINRIK, 2010. In Search of the Shadow of the Past: Legacy Explanations and Administrative Reform in Post-Communist East Central Europe TRADITION AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. 203-216
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2009. The sustainability of civil service reforms in Central and Eastern Europe five years after accession Paris: OECD-SIGMA Publications.
• MEYER-SAHLING, J. H. and GOETZ, K., 2009. The EU timescape: from notion to research agenda Journal of European Public Policy. VOL 16(NUMBER 2), 325-336
• GOETZ, K.H. AND MEYER-SAHLING, J.H., ed., 2009. The EU Timescape Journal of European Public Policy.
• GOETZ, K. H. and MEYER-SAHLING, J.- H., 2009. Political time in the EU: dimensions, perspectives, theories Journal of European Public Policy. 16(2), 180-201
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H. AND NAKROSIS, V., 2009. ‘Lietuvos valstybés tarnyba: sékmés paslaptys ir tolesnio vystymo alternatyvos’ (The Lithuanian Civil Service: Secrets of Success and Alternatives for Future Development). Public Policy and Administration. 27, 7 – 15
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2009. Varieties of legacies: a critical review of legacy explanations of public administration reform in East Central Europe International Review of Administrative Sciences. 75(3), 509-528
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H. AND NAKROSIS, V., 2009. The Lithuanian Civil Service and Its Modernisation Guidelines. Vilnius: Civil Service Department of the Republic of Lithuania.
• MEYER-SAHLING, J. H., 2008. The changing colours of the post-communist state: The politicisation of the senior civil service in Hungary European Journal of Political Research. VOL 47(NUMBER 1), 1-33
• ROLFE, V, MILNE, D, ALCOCER, M, BENTLEY, E and AND MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2008. Academic Staff Attitudes towards Electronic Learning in Arts and Sciences EURODL – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning. 1,
• HEYWOOD, P. AND MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2008. Corruption Risks and the Management of the Ministerial Bureaucracy in Poland Warsaw: Ernst & 'Young Better Government Programme'.
• GOETZ, K.H. AND MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2008. The Europeanisation of National Political Systems: Parliaments and Executives Living Reviews in European Governance. 2,
• MEYER-SAHLING, J., 2008. Book review: Enlarging the Euro Area: External Empowerment and Domestic Transformation in East Central Europe. By K Dyson (Ed.) West European Politics. VOL 31(NUMBER 3), 634-635
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2007. Héritages, concurrence entre les partis et gouvernance de la fonction publique dans la Hongrie postcommuniste’ (Legacies, Party Competition and Civil Service Governance in Post-Communist Hungary) Critique International. 35(2), 51-68
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2006. The institutionalization of political discretion in post-Communist civil service systems: the case of Hungary Public Administration. 84(3), 693-716
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2006. The rise of the partisan state? Parties, patronage and the ministerial bureaucracy in Hungary Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics. 22(3), 274-297
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2005. Book review: Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective: The Quest for Control. By B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre (eds) West European Politics. VOL 28(NUMB 1), 220-221
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2004. Civil service reform in post-communist Europe: the bumpy road to depoliticisation West European Politics. 27(1), 71-103
• MEYER-SAHLING, J.-H., 2001. Getting on track: civil service reform in post-communist Hungary Journal of European Public Policy. 8(6), 960-979
• MEYER-SAHLING, J., 2001. 'Methodological Frameworks for the Study of Politico-Administrative Relations and their Applicability in Post-communist Settings'. In Politico-Administrative Relations: Who Rules?, ed. Tony Verheijen. Bratislava: NISPAcee, 45-63.. In: Politico-Administrative Relations: Who Rules? 45-63