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作者:Prum, Virak
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作者:Salazar-Morales, Diego; Pineda, Pedro; Lauriano, Lucas Amaral
作者单位:Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; University of Bath; Universite de Lille; IESEG School of Management; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CNRS - Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences (INSHS)
摘要:Policy capacity plays a pivotal role in shaping the extent of global governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. While scholars have primarily examined this phenomenon through individual case studies, focusing on demographic variables that influence governments' COVID-19 responses, little understanding exists regarding how existing policy capacities (systemic, organisational, and individual) have either constrained or empowered governments to navigate the pandemic diversely. To address th...
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作者:Oliveros, Virginia
作者单位:Tulane University
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作者:Wei, Wenchi; Xu, Wen; Li, Wenzhao
作者单位:Renmin University of China
摘要:This study focuses on the honor of Model County Party Secretary, a prestigious award bestowed by the Communist Party of China to recognize exceptional county party secretaries. Specifically, we investigate how county party secretaries' patronage networks with senior politicians and their relative economic performance compared to other political contestants can impact their likelihood of winning this honor. We collect demographic and biographic data on a sample of over 2000 county party secreta...
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作者:Tarlea, Silvana; Bailer, Stefanie; Kudrna, Zdenek; Wasserfallen, Fabio
作者单位:University of Basel; University of Basel; University of Bern
摘要:In the multilevel system of the European Union (EU), national governments have been empowered at the expense of parliaments. We study the executive power shift in EU politics in the formation of national preferences. This article shows that governments are more likely to integrate parliaments and external actors, such as other governments and EU institutions, when they advocate extreme bargaining positions in EU negotiations. We theoretically develop this argument and provide an empirical stud...
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作者:Staronova, Katarina; Rybar, Marek
作者单位:Comenius University Bratislava; Masaryk University
摘要:The article examines the proposition that the characteristics of ministerial advisers are shaped by specific settings of the politicization of ministerial administration. Four types of politicization settings are identified, resulting from variation in the scope of formal political appointments and appointments into bureaucracy. Using data from an original expert survey and semi-structured expert interviews, the contribution analyses eleven cases from Central and Eastern Europe. It documents t...
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作者:Yang, Wenhui
作者单位:Peking University; Peking University
摘要:Power concentration may impede bottom-up information flow. This article argues that strong ruling party control may facilitate the power concentration of ruling elites, which breeds reticence and impedes bottom-up information flow. Using Chinese municipal congresses as a case, I establish that strong ruling party control significantly reduces the number of policy proposals, suggestions, and criticisms from legislators. The reduction effect of ruling party control on upward information is more ...