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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：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 ...
