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作者：Douglas, James W.; Szmer, John; Raudla, Ringa
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; Tallinn University of Technology
摘要：Do politicians behave opportunistically regarding their tax proposals during the election cycle, or do they maintain ideological sincerity? We examine U.S. governors' revenue proposals between the years of 1989 and 2018 to assess gubernatorial behavior during election years. We find that governors, in general, do indeed follow a political budget cycle where they request lower revenues during election years. However, this finding is largely driven by Democratic governors asking for significantl...
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作者：Zohlnhoefer, Reimut; Jathe, Jan; Engler, Fabian
作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
摘要：Did the financial and economic crisis (2008/2009) induce a permanent shift to more economic intervention in the advanced democracies? Three relevant theoretical perspectives are considered. First, the crisis could have led all governments to intervene more, irrespective of their partisan composition. Second, voter demand could have shifted towards more intervention due to the crisis, again inducing all governments to expand economic intervention. Third, increasing salience of economic issues c...
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作者：Lacatus, Corina
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：Global governance systems, including international organizations (IOs), turn to academic experts to achieve a variety of policy-related outcomes. Existing scholarship offers valuable insights into the two main functions of expertise for international organizations-instrumental and symbolic. I draw on network analysis to propose a third function-political instrumentalism-where IOs use experts' degree of connectedness to other actors to exert influence in politicized areas of policymaking and in...
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作者：Salgado, Rosa Sanchez; Hanegraaff, Marcel; Crepaz, Michele
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Queens University Belfast
摘要：The question of the legitimacy of government funding of interest groups as a democratic practice has been extensively discussed by scholars. On the one hand, research suggests that well-resourced interest groups are better equipped to capture European Union (EU) funds, raising some questions regarding the elitist character of the EU system of interest representation. On the other hand, EU funds have been found to address imbalances in the system of interest representation by directing funding ...
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作者：Talleraas, Cathrine
摘要：This article dives into the complex web of actors and processes of migration policy implementation in Ghana, revealing political tensions as they play out in this field. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with bureaucrats and practitioners involved in migration governance initiatives in Ghana. The study reveals how institutional power hierarchies and funding structures affect execution processes on the ground. Mapping out observations concerning implementation as it is experie...
