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作者：Zhang, Dong
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：The resurgence of populism has presented a grave threat to democratic governance across the globe. Drawing on a cross-national dataset of 155 countries from 1960 to 2020, we leverage the leadership turnovers within countries and use fixed effects models to estimate the effect of populist leadership on corruption. We find that populist leadership is associated with a substantial increase in executive corruption, but not other types of corruption. We also provide evidence that populist leaders a...
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作者：Lotta, Gabriela; Krieger, Morgana G. Martins; Cohen, Nissim; Kirschbaum, Charles
作者单位：Universidade Federal da Bahia; University of Haifa; Insper
摘要：The literature has usually regarded street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as relatively privileged bureaucrats, neglecting an important sub-group of these civil servants: low-status SLBs. Even though they may be members of a team with other SLBs who have more status, they may suffer from intraorganizational inequality, meaning unequal access to resources and the requirement that they perform informal tasks associated with their unequal position in the organization. We examine the unique challenges l...
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作者：Hou, Rui; Fu, Diana
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Toronto
摘要：China's social credit system can be examined as a governance tool which sorts citizenship behaviors into trustworthy and untrustworthy categories as part of the regime's long-standing effort to cultivate a loyal citizenry. Based on a data set comprised of central-level official documents, national model citizen lists, and media reports, this study qualitatively examines how the Chinese state constructs good and bad citizen ideal types. Contrary to media depictions of the system as digital tota...
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作者：Mahmalat, Mounir; Maktabi, Wassim
作者单位：The World Bank
摘要：We study cartels in public infrastructure procurement and analyze the conditions under which they succeed in generating rents. We first conceptualize the interplay of the central actors of a procurement project, notably the contractor, the procurement agency, as well as the supervision and design consultants. By focusing on consultants, our framework includes important yet understudied actors in cartels that design tenders, evaluate bids, and supervise the implementation of projects. We go on ...
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作者：Drapalova, Eliska
摘要：The success of populist parties in national elections puts pressure on political leaders and their administrations, both at the central and sub-national levels. This paper explores the political tensions between two administrative levels-a central level governed by a populist party, and the city level headed by a liberal party-and the strategies populists use to challenge local political leaders and their city administrations. This paper analyzes three case studies: Prague, Warsaw, and Budapes...
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作者：Fernandez-i-Marin, Xavier; Hinterleitner, Markus; Knill, Christoph; Steinebach, Yves
作者单位：University of Barcelona; University of Lausanne; University of Munich; University of Oslo
摘要：Democratic governments have constantly added new policies to existing policy stocks to confront societal, economic, and environmental challenges. This development has the potential to overburden public administrations in charge of policy implementation. To address this issue, we theorize and analyze how the relationship between the size of sectoral policy portfolios and implementation capacities affects sectoral policy performance. Our Bayesian analysis of the environmental policies of 21 Orga...
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作者：Pyo, Sunyoung
作者单位：Catholic University of Korea
摘要：This study experimentally examines the effect of gender representation of a police organization responsible for handling domestic violence, and how this impacts Korean citizens' views toward the police. Findings show that male participants gave the highest ratings of legitimacy and fairness when the organization is equally represented by men and women, while gave low ratings of legitimacy and efficacy to the organization where women are over-represented. This implies that achieving gender bala...
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作者：Batista, Mariana; Michener, Gregory
作者单位：Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
摘要：Freedom of information (FOI) laws are known to expose governmental weaknesses, but do they improve the structural workings of public administration, professionalizing governance? This study examines FOI's effect on a cornerstone of effective governance-bureaucratic hiring. Using coarsened matching methods to compare over 5400 municipalities in Brazil-approximately half possessing FOI regulations and half without-we identify significant reductions in discretionary patronage-based appointments. ...
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作者：Shalaby, Marwa; Williamson, Scott
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Bocconi University
摘要：When are executives in authoritarian regimes more likely to comply with formal legislative powers? Building from theories of authoritarian power-sharing, we argue that executives will be more likely to respect legislative prerogatives when protests or elite organization increase the ability of legislators to undermine the executive's political position. We evaluate this argument by analyzing novel protest and legislative data in Jordan between 2010 and 2015. In line with our expectations, we f...
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作者：Winsvold, Marte; Vabo, Signy Irene
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：Participatory governance arrangements are assumed to strengthen elected representatives' capacity for political leadership. This study argues that the relationship between participatory arrangements and perceived political leadership depends on the design of the participatory arrangements. Drawing on a survey to local councilors in Norway, we found that sharing power with citizens through interactive governance arrangements was associated with lower perceived capacity for political leadership ...
