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作者：Lewis, Orion A.; Teets, Jessica C.; Hasmath, Reza
作者单位：Middlebury College; University of Alberta
摘要：This article argues that policymakers' individual attributes influence their willingness to engage in policy innovation, and that this influence is responsive to, but not determined by, changes in the institutional structure. We derive these findings by employing principal component analysis of original data from surveys of local policymakers in China, to inductively locate different personalities. We find statistically significant personalities that influence a willingness to innovate, and th...
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作者：Nabatchi, Tina
作者单位：Syracuse University
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作者：Khawaja, Sarfraz; Khalid, Saif Ullah
摘要：This study analyzes the public service delivery system in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan following the 2014 enactment of the Right to Services Act. It adopts a case study approach, primarily based on qualitative interviews and focus group discussions, to examine the lessons learned as part of this Act's aim to improve governance. The study finds that accountability is key for measuring the public delivery of services and that the Right to Public Services Act and its corresponding ...
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作者：Ettelt, Stefanie; Williams, Lorraine; Mays, Nicholas
作者单位：University of London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
摘要：This article contributes to the literature on tools of governance by examining the role of national policy pilots from the perspective of local implementers, using interviews with directors of adult social services in elected local government in England. Previous research in the same settings has shown that local actors often find the experience of participating in national policy pilots frustrating. This article attempts to explain why local authorities volunteer for such schemes. Drawing on ...
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作者：Zhu, Boliang; Deng, Qing
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Why do some firms pay more bribes than others? We extend the literature by examining the role of one crucial, but overlooked industry characteristic-fixed-asset intensity-in shaping firms' bribe payments. High fixed-asset intensity creates natural entry barriers, thereby resulting in market concentration and opportunities for monopoly rent extraction. High rents, in turn, increase the value of government officials' control rights and thus their incentive to engage in predatory behavior. Firms ...
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作者：Kalpakian, Jack; Asatryan, Georgi
作者单位：Al Akhawayn University; Plekhanov Russian University of Economics; Russian Academy of Sciences; Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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作者：Murdoch, Zuzana; Connolly, Sara; Kassim, Hussein; Geys, Benny
作者单位：University of Bergen; University of East Anglia; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：The representation of specific groups and social interests within (or by) the civil service has long been a concern of public administration scholarship. Yet, much of this literature focuses on representation at a single point in time. In this article, we propose a more dynamic perspective. In terms of theory, we postulate specific temporal relationships between triggering cues (e.g., a crisis event) and the representation decisions of civil servants. We specify two complementary mechanisms un...
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作者：Adam, Christian; Hurka, Steffen; Knill, Christoph; Steinebach, Yves
作者单位：Zeppelin University; University of Munich
摘要：The vice and virtue of incrementalism have been the subject of a long-standing academic debate. This debate, however, lacks a dynamic perspective that analyzes how the transformation of politics-mainly in the form of increasing levels of political fragmentation within decision-making arenas and increasing complexity of policy-mixes-affects the role of incrementalism. We argue that both of these trends make the virtues of incrementalism politically even more valuable than they have always been....
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作者：Busscher, Tim; Verweij, Stefan; van den Brink, Margo
作者单位：University of Groningen
摘要：With the aim to successfully implement infrastructure, implementation arrangements increasingly assign responsibilities for network management to private actors. In the literature, two types of network management strategies are distinguished: process design and institutional design. To date, research has focused on either of these strategies. Moreover, while private actors aim to use the institutional capital built in the network before the private actor was introduced, the role of institution...
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作者：Krygier, Martin
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney
