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作者：Haesevoets, Tessa; Roets, Arne; Steyvers, Kristof; Verschuere, Bram; Wauters, Bram
作者单位：Ghent University; Ghent University; Ghent University; Ghent University; Ghent University
摘要：Policy decision-making modes in governance contexts have become increasingly participatory. This raises questions about legitimacy, and how to measure this concept. The current article advances a multifaceted measurement of perceived legitimacy of policy decision-making modes in participatory governance, capturing the three components of legitimacy (input, throughput, and output) with two items each. This six-item measure was tested in a vignette survey (total N = 4583), which was administered...
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作者：Amuso, Valentina; Baron, Ilan Zvi
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Durham University
摘要：Regulatory agencies care about their reputation, which helps sustain their authority. As innovation can introduce uncertainty in governance, delaying action or overlooking danger can negatively affect agencies' standing. Aware of these reputation risks, agencies rely on a set of methods to govern the unknown. These methods, we argue, are: (1) categorization, if the innovation is considered identical to known regulatory categories; (2) analogy, if the innovation is considered similar to known c...
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作者：Migchelbrink, Koen
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Are public sector workers more supportive of technocracy than people not employed in the public sector? Public sector workers play an important role in the functioning and safeguarding of democracy. However, because of their training as neutral and competent policy workers and implementers, it is often claimed that they hold relatively strong technocratic attitudes. In this study, we compare the support for technocracy of 35,395 public sector and non-public sector workers across 25 European co...
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作者：Gofen, Anat
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Street-level organizations (SLOs) play a key, but understudied, political role in democratic governance as they are responsible for the direct-delivery of public services that are vital to the functioning of the state. To discuss the political role of SLOs in general, this study begins by identifying four SLO roles, which are conceptualized here by distinguishing policy-sphere versus politics-sphere and SLOs-as-takers versus SLOs-as-makers. SLOs' political role in a democratic backsliding and ...
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作者：Yan, Xiaojun; Li, La
作者单位：University of Hong Kong
摘要：How do autocratic regimes use political propaganda to facilitate policy reversals of major significance? In this article, we demonstrate how the authoritarian regime in China dynamically uses propaganda to accomplish rapid discursive shifts in the context of major policy changes. Using a structural topic model for unsupervised machine learning to analyze extensive propaganda materials, we explore how the Chinese Communist Party facilitated the reversal of its One-Child Policy in 2015 by deploy...
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作者：Cifuentes-Faura, Javier
作者单位：University of Murcia
摘要：This paper analyzes the role of accounting in disaster mitigation and the importance of transparency to avoid corruption. During the Ukrainian war, accounting has allowed the redistribution of war material, the quantification of economic aid, or the efficient management of humanitarian aid. This paper aims to set a research agenda on transparency and corruption in foreign aid to a fragile and conflict-affected country. In order to analyze the situation of corruption in Ukraine during the war, ...
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作者：Albala, Adrian; Clerici, Paula; Olivares, Alejandro
作者单位：Universidade de Brasilia; Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; University of Buenos Aires; Universidad Mayor
摘要：The composition of cabinets under presidential regimes has constituted one of the top topics of the litterature in political science in recent years. However, nothing has been said about the proper size of those cabinets. That is, why some cabinets are 37 ministers large when other is formed by just 13 members? We carry on a theory of cabinet size under presidential regimes, using insights from both parliamentarist and presidentialist literature. Our model is composed of five hypotheses relyin...
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作者：Dahlberg, Moa; Soderberg, Charlotta
作者单位：Lulea University of Technology
摘要：In this paper, we develop a framework for understanding the different spheres of authority of chiefs aiming to widen the perspectives on how government-chief interactions affect the governance process. The framework is applied in our analysis of interviews with government actors involved in area protection in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (GLTFCA). Our results illustrate the variety of approaches and perceptions towards governance with chiefs that exist amongst government a...
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作者：Rittberger, Berthold; Ruffing, Eva; Weinrich, Martin; Wonka, Arndt
作者单位：University of Munich; University Osnabruck; University of Bremen
摘要：In the past decades, European Union (EU) agencies have proliferated to address a plethora of governance problems. When designing EU agencies, EU legislators confront a tension: Legislators want agencies to be competent problem-solvers, but they also want to keep agencies under control. How do EU legislators balance these two imperatives? We argue that agencies' political principals do not necessarily have to trade competence for control, and vice versa, but can draw on different institutional ...
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作者：He, Alex Jingwei; Fan, Yumeng; Su, Rui
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Sun Yat Sen University
摘要：Governments increasingly use policy experimentation programs to seek solutions for complex problems. Because randomization and controllability are unrealistic for real-world policy experiments, how subnational pilots are selected is crucial for generating sound evidence for national replication. However, the received wisdom on pilot sampling is thin and paradoxical. While some studies suggest that policymakers prefer to select regions with favorable conditions, others contend that securing rep...
