Do Competitive Examinations Promote Diversity in Civil Service?. (29th April 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Do Competitive Examinations Promote Diversity in Civil Service?. (29th April 2019)
- Main Title:
- Do Competitive Examinations Promote Diversity in Civil Service?
- Authors:
- Greenan, Nathalie
Lanfranchi, Joseph
L'Horty, Yannick
Narcy, Mathieu
Pierné, Guillaume - Abstract:
- Abstract: The representative bureaucracy literature provides a growing body of empirical evidence that a representative public workforce enhances the efficacy and legitimacy of public services. However, little attention has been paid to the capacity of civil service competitive examinations to give equal opportunity of access to public jobs to equally competent citizens. To fill this gap, the authors use French databases to analyze whether competitive examinations comprising both written and oral tests ensure equality of treatment for all candidates regardless of gender, place of residence, or place of birth. The results challenge the capacity of these examinations to treat candidates equally, identifying inequalities in the written tests as well as evaluation biases in the oral tests. However, oral evaluation biases tend to offset inequalities in the written tests. Therefore, selection boards take a sort of affirmative action toward the sole successful members of groups suffering such inequalities .
- Is Part Of:
- Public administration review. Volume 79:Number 3(2019)
- Journal:
- Public administration review
- Issue:
- Volume 79:Number 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 79, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 79
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0079-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 370
- Page End:
- 382
- Publication Date:
- 2019-04-29
- Subjects:
- United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals
Public administration -- Periodicals
350 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-6210 ↗
http://www.blackwellpub.com/asp/journal.asp?ref=0033-3352 ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/00333352.html ↗
http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/puar?mode=direct ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗
http://firstsearch.oclc.org ↗
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/journal=0033-3352;screen=info;ECOIP ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/puar.13053 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0033-3352
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- Legaldeposit
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