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作者：Wei, Wenchi; Petrovsky, Nicolai; Ni, Xing
作者单位：Tsinghua University; City University of Hong Kong; Renmin University of China
摘要：This study conducts a randomized survey experiment to examine the impact of budgeting professionalism, environmental shocks, and fiscal transparency on citizen blame attributions during government fiscal crises. Theoretically, we distinguish between two logics of responsibility attribution: causal responsibility stresses the causal link between an actor's actions and specific phenomena; functional responsibility underlines an actor's legal, moral, or social obligations in relation to such phen...
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作者：Romero, Vidal; Flores-Macias, Gustavo A.
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作者：Wejryd, Johan
作者单位：Uppsala University
摘要：The marketization of schools and of other public services is supposed to have changed the relationship of citizens to the state in many Western countries over the last 30 years. One explicit aim of marketization has been to increase citizen influence over public services. Yet, studies of its effects on citizens' willingness to address public decision-making remain scarce in general, and nonexistent as regards schools. In this study, a survey experiment taps the causal effects of both user choi...
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作者：Lipcean, Sergiu; McMenamin, Iain
作者单位：University of Bergen; Dublin City University
摘要：Does the provision of state subsidies to political parties reduce their involvement in corruption? Existing research provides inconclusive evidence on this relationship, perhaps because cross-national studies on public funding and corruption are often limited by regulation-based indexes of political financing and by very general corruption measures. In this study, we use focused measures for both phenomena to investigate whether more generous public funding reduces party corruption. Our indepe...
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作者：Pyo, Sunyoung; Lee, Hongseok
作者单位：Catholic University of Korea; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Some representative bureaucracy literature has suggested that increasing the share of female bureaucrats, particularly in supervisory positions, would not have a substantial influence on producing policy outcomes in favor of female clients because of the potential impact of organizational socialization. However, there has been little empirical investigation into how passive female representation across hierarchical ranks and its interaction influence policy outcomes for women. By analyzing dat...
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作者：Resh, William; Ahn, Yongjin; Moynihan, Donald
作者单位：University of Southern California; Korea University; Georgetown University
摘要：We examine the implications of anti-statist populist leaders' inattention to competence and service delivery, and their embrace of a particular form of dysfunctional politics: government shutdowns. This paper explores the effects of US government shutdowns on agency policy implementation and personnel and using survey data from several hundred thousand federal employees. The first study gauges the effect of the 2018-2019 shutdown on specific elements of agency policy implementation. The result...
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作者：Trautendorfer, Julia; Schmidthuber, Lisa; Hilgers, Dennis
作者单位：Johannes Kepler University Linz; Vienna University of Economics & Business
摘要：Under freedom of information (FOI) regulations, public officials are pressured to grant citizens access to public information by responding to citizen information requests. However, despite FOI regulations, information requests are treated with varying bureaucratic attention, resulting in a high number of ignored or overdue requests by public organizations. Focusing on this bureaucratic discrimination, this study aims to explain the determinants of varying bureaucratic responsiveness to citize...
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作者：Gonzalez-Vazquez, Alejandro; Nieto-Morales, Fernando; Peeters, Rik
作者单位：Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE); Colegio de Mexico
摘要：In the context of limited state capacity and a politicized public administration, democratic backsliding tends to exploit preexisting deficiencies in the functioning of the public sector. Whereas staffing managerial positions with regime supporters is well-documented, less attention has been paid to the structuring and staffing of street-level bureaucracies under a spoils system. In this article, we use document analysis and in-depth interviews to analyze the case of Mexico's Servants of the N...
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作者：Yu, Yi-Ming; Wu, Yung-Ming; Chiu, Pao-Lung; Chen, Kun-Huang
作者单位：Ming Chi University of Technology; National Defense University - Taiwan
摘要：Previous studies have argued that women are less corrupt because they are marginalized or because they are risk averse. However, because of the insidious and hidden nature of corruption, the subjects of theoretical reasoning in previous studies were individuals who were not involved in corruption. This produces a lack of observations and analyses of individuals who are actually corrupt. For this reason, the present study used text mining of Taiwanese district court judgments to examine why wom...
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作者：Lotta, Gabriela Spanghero; Piotrowska, Barbara; Raaphorst, Nadine
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation; University of London; King's College London; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：This special issue investigates the impact of populism and democratic backsliding on street-level bureaucracy (SLB) across various countries and contexts. The cooccurrence of populism and democratic erosion significantly alters public administration, particularly affecting public sector employees responsible for policy implementation. This issue explores how populist strategies differ in their application to SLBs as compared to the Civil Service, the distinctive challenges SLBs encounter due t...
