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作者：Friedrich, Laurin
作者单位：University of Duisburg Essen; University of Konstanz
摘要：While pursuing a professional delivery of public services, street-level bureaucrats increasingly face intense political-ideological pressure. Yet, preceding scholars have barely explored how they manage to resist it. Addressing this gap, the paper presents a concept of the coping mechanisms street-level bureaucrats employ to shield their discretionary practices from becoming politicized. It is derived from an exploratory interview study with 33 case managers at German local jobcentres. Drawing...
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作者：Bartl, Walter; Lutz, Philipp
作者单位：Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg; University of Geneva; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：Many European countries are concerned about the asymmetric distribution of refugees within their territory. In response, they have developed policies to spatially disperse asylum seekers. Yet, we lack a comprehensive understanding of such refugee dispersal policies (RDPs). This article fills that gap with two contributions. First, we conceptualize RDPs as systems of subnational responsibility-sharing in asylum governance, defined along five policy attributes and three ideal types. Second, we i...
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作者：Lee, Seungho
作者单位：Jeonbuk National University
摘要：Although previous research has highlighted digitalization as a potential avenue for enhancing domestic revenue mobilization-a critical component for the sustainable economic and political development of nations-the relationship between digitalization and domestic revenue mobilization remains underexplored. This paper contributes to the current literature by investigating how the relationship between digitalization and the government's capacity to tax is influenced by governmental responsivenes...
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作者：Zhelyazkova, Asya; Lindner, Thijs; Heinkelmann-Wild, Tim; Kanas, Agnieszka
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Munich
摘要：As European Union (EU) policymaking becomes increasingly politicized, national and local authorities face pressure to justify compliance with contested EU rules. This study examines how different explanations for compliance affect citizens' perceptions of legitimacy. We distinguish between blame-shifting and defending strategies communicated by national and municipal authorities. Our expectations and findings challenge the popular view that blaming the EU is the most credible approach. In poli...
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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. ...
