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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：Jiang, Hanchen; Yi, Hongtao; Zhang, Dongcheng
作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：The persistent influence of historical bureaucratic institutions on various contemporary socio-economic outcomes is well documented, yet the extent to which these institutions shape current citizen-state interactions remains underexplored. This study focuses on the persistent effect of a cultural factor shaped by a historical meritocratic institution (ancient China's imperial examination) on citizen compliance with social distancing policies during the first wave of COVID-19 in China. Based on...
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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：Ziaja, Sebastian; Geray, Markus; Sebudubudu, David; von Schiller, Armin
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Leibniz Institut fur Sozialwissenschaften (GESIS); Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Botswana
摘要：E-government services are often heralded as a silver bullet for governments willing to engage more meaningfully with citizens. Evidence on the effectiveness of these measures for improving citizen-state relations is scarce, however. Most studies examining e-government focus on efficiency considerations; few consider potential effects on citizen-state relations. The present study analyses the effect of an information treatment about the availability of e-government services on citizen perceptio...
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作者：Chen, Sicheng; Yuan, Lingran; Wang, Weijie; Gong, Binlei
作者单位：Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University; Zhejiang University; Zhejiang University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
摘要：This study examines whether and how information asymmetry affects local governments' gaming behaviors in a decentralization reform. We contend that adequate access to local information by the principal is a prerequisite for mitigating effort substitution among agents. We examine the hypothesis based on a decentralization reform in China-the Integration of Agriculture-related Fiscal Transfer reform. We use the distance between pilot villages and the provincial capital as the measurement of loca...
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作者：Moutselos, Michalis
作者单位：University of Cyprus; University of Cyprus
摘要：The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) have experienced increases in available resources and have conducted joint operations with European Union (EU) Member States in recent years. They may be regarded as examples of agencification in border protection and asylum policy, but this paper argues that agencification has proceeded without an expansion in agency mandates. Using Frontex and EASO operations in two Southern European border cou...
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作者：Rodland, Lise; Hansen, Vibeke Woien; Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of Oslo
摘要：Legislative party groups regularly get suggestions from numerous, different interest groups trying to influence policy, but individual party groups are likely to be more receptive to suggestions from groups representing some interests than others. We examine (in)equalities in legislative parties' receptiveness to interest group diversity by asking: what factors explain how (un)equally legislative parties listen to and accept suggestions from different types of interest groups? Combining intere...
