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作者：Overmans, Tom; Grimmelikhuijsen, Stephan
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：Decades of research emphasized collective behaviors in public budgeting, yet individual budget preferences remain underexplored. This paper argues that both well-known and lesser-known cognitive biases distort politicians' budget judgment, resulting in biased preferences. To test this, we conducted five preregistered experiments examining the impact of five biases-anchoring, herding, mental accounting, availability bias, and loss aversion-on budget preferences. Using data from 1825 municipal b...
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作者：Czuba, Karol
作者单位：Nazarbayev University
摘要：Deployment of digital surveillance technologies has enabled governments to acquire detailed, precise, synoptic, and-in settings where capacity and resource constraints had historically impeded state information-gathering efforts-previously inaccessible knowledge about populations. This article introduces a new typology of government digital surveillance and multiple sets of data that provide extensive evidence-the most comprehensive and systematic to date-of the deployment of digital surveilla...
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作者：Wesley, Jared J.; Boyd, Brendan
作者单位：University of Alberta; MacEwan University
摘要：Denigrating public servants has been a key feature of populists movements that seek to prioritize the individual and common people over establishment elites. In Canada, mainstream conservative party leaders claim Canada is broken and openly advocate for getting rid of the gatekeepers, for example, while right-wing populists often promote the dangers of the deep state. Despite these developments, we do not know whether and how populist attitudes relate to citizens' trust in the public service. ...
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作者：Shabbir, Muhammad Nadir; Iftikhar, Kainat; Linh, Duong Thuy
作者单位：Xi'an University of Finance & Economics; Xiamen University; National Economics University - Vietnam
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作者：Zhang, Qing
作者单位：Sichuan International Studies University
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作者：Bertelli, Anthony M.; Falletti, Vincenza; Cannas, Silvia
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：How can the administrative state enhance democracy through the practice of governance? We offer a theory of authorized discretion: administrative principles are grounded in democratic values, and, in turn, authorize forms and practices of governance that comport with those values. We argue that (1) public administration is intertwined with a substantive conception of the rule of law; (2) administrative principles in the law shape the development and application of rules and standards by public...
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作者：Jensen, Mads Dagnis; Wang, Suen
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Aalborg University
摘要：This study examines how different types of regimes use performance-based legitimation after severe natural disasters. While prior research has evaluated emergency relief, broader fiscal responses remain understudied. Drawing on legitimation theory, we argue that all regimes seek to secure legitimacy, but hybrid regimes are more likely to expand public spending to ensure their political survival. Analyzing data from 166 countries from 1960 to 2018, we find significant post-disaster fiscal expan...
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作者：Phan, Tuan-Ngoc
摘要：The literature on corruption, grounded in the principal-agent framework, has long promoted transparency as a tool to reduce misconduct by improving oversight. Yet standard models assume that transparency either deters wrongdoing or, at worst, has no effect-they do not account for the possibility that it could increase corruption. This paper adopts an agent-centered perspective, arguing that in settings with weak accountability, transparency influences outcomes only through its effects on burea...
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作者：Zurstrassen, Dimitri
作者单位：Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要：The European Union's current pursuit of strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty through industrial policy initiatives occurs amid intensifying US-China competition, prompting new policy instruments and rhetoric that many scholars interpret as fundamental transformation in EU economic governance. However, historical analysis reveals striking parallels with the 1970s-1980s, when Europe confronted US technological dominance and Japanese competition. Drawing on historical institutionalist...
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作者：Trautendorfer, Julia; Eder, Nina
作者单位：Johannes Kepler University Linz
摘要：Governments worldwide have introduced transparency and accountability regulations so that citizens can hold officials accountable for their actions and fulfill their role as watchdogs of the state. In the long term, this should legitimize government by mitigating information asymmetries between citizens and the government. Therefore, if adequate mechanisms that empower citizens to increase government transparency and the accountability of public officials are properly stipulated in the law, do...
