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作者:Kalesnikaite, Vaiva; Neshkova, Milena, I; Ganapati, Sukumar
作者单位:Clemson University; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要:Prior research has examined the effect of e-government on corruption but has only considered perceived political corruption that differs from the actual corruption that citizens experience in their routine encounters with street-level bureaucrats. This study focuses on petty corruption and delineates the underlying mechanism through which e-government aids in curbing it. We argue that online service delivery reduces corruptibility on both sides-bureaucrats and citizens-by limiting the frequenc...
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作者:Cinar, Emre; Simms, Chris; Trott, Paul
作者单位:University of Portsmouth
摘要:The importance of involving citizens in the early stages of public sector innovation and bottom-up governance arrangements for collaboration has been proposed in a number of theoretical papers. However, to date, few empirical studies are evident in the literature. To deepen our understanding of collaborative public sector innovation, our exploratory article analyses: (i) the actors of collaboration, (ii) collaboration across the innovation stages, (iii) the perceived aspects of collaboration f...
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作者:Fleischer, Julia; Bezes, Philippe; James, Oliver; Yesilkagit, Kutsal
作者单位:University of Potsdam; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); University of Exeter; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要:The reorganization of governments is crucial for parties to express their policy preferences once they reach office. Yet these activities are not confined to the direct aftermath of general elections or to wide-ranging structural reforms. Instead, governments reorganize and adjust their machinery of government all the time. This paper aims to assess these structural choices with a particular focus at the core of the state, comparing four Western European democracies (Germany, France, the Nethe...