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作者：Wang, Erik H.
作者单位：Australian National University
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作者：Agnihotri, Anustubh
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Can market competition between intermediaries improve the quality of citizen-state interactions? I test this question in the context of a public-private partnership (PPP) policy that created a network of digital intermediaries - individuals authorized by the state to submit online applications on behalf of citizens. I use the overtime and staggered expansion of the intermediary network to identify the relationship between greater competition among digital intermediaries for the share of citize...
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作者：Resnick, Danielle; Siame, Gilbert
作者单位：Brookings Institution; University of Zambia
摘要：What drives organizational commitment in local government? Despite the growth of decentralization initiatives in many developing countries and concurrent investments by international donors to build public sector capacity, there thus far has been little consideration of what drives bureaucrats to stay committed to local government service. This paper addresses this question by drawing on original survey data with more than 150 bureaucrats across 16 district councils in Zambia. The findings sho...
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作者：Hajnal, Aron
作者单位：Corvinus University Budapest
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作者：Kuhn, Patrick M.
作者单位：Durham University
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作者：Lindvall, Johannes; Rogers, Katren
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Lund University
摘要：This paper describes the changing nature of the English and Swedish states between 1800 and 2020 from the perspective of ordinary citizens. We identify 13 typical life situations and then describe the types of citizens who interacted with the state, the number and types of public officials with whom they interacted, and where those interactions took place. We distinguish among three typical social groups: the poor, the middle, and the rich. We find, among other things, that the poor became obj...
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作者：Lee, Heewon
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：Collaborative efforts across sectors, scales, and government levels have been effective in addressing the goals to reduce petroleum use and mitigate environmental issues in the U.S. While community contexts shape local collaborative governance, diverse local interests do not necessarily translate into collaborations without proper facilitating efforts. This study expands the theoretical discussion on the concept of collaborative platforms, which is understudied despite their wide use as a gove...
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作者：Coroado, Susana; Magalhaes, Pedro C.
作者单位：Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-UL); Universidade de Lisboa
摘要：The movement of personnel between roles in regulation, politics, and regulated industries is thought to affect the risks of politicization and industry capture of independent regulatory agencies. To test whether such movements are better explained by formal rules or by sector-specific patterns, we employ an original dataset of the 152 appointees to 11 IRAs in Portugal over the last 3 decades. We find that variations in the formal independence of agencies have been of little consequence. Instea...
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作者：Beaud, Guillaume
作者单位：Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
摘要：New political regimes stemming from revolutions eventually find themselves confronted with the imperative to build upper bureaucratic apparatuses geared towards facilitating regime stability. This article examines the process of re-bureaucratization in the Islamic Republic of Iran, whereby institutions are designed and reworked over time to accommodate distinct features of the reshuffled bureaucratic elite initially incongruous in a deregulated revolutionary environment. Precisely, it examines...
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作者：Porumbescu, Gregory; Moynihan, Donald; Anastasopoulos, Jason; Olsen, Asmus Leth
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Yonsei University; Georgetown University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; University of Copenhagen
摘要：Public officials use blame avoidance strategies when communicating performance information. While such strategies typically involve shifting blame to political opponents or other governments, we examine how they might direct blame to ethnic groups. We focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, where the Trump administration sought to shift blame by scapegoating (using the term Chinese virus) and mitigate blame by positively framing performance information on COVID-19 testing. Using a novel experimental d...
