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作者：Kang, Inkyu
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：Punishment-oriented policy can undermine confidence in government institutions among those who collectively share unfavorable social constructions of the policy's target group, even without having personally experienced negative bureaucratic encounters. As an empirical test, this study investigates the effect of the passage of Arizona S.B. 1070 and copycat immigration enforcement laws in five additional states on confidence in the local police. Using multi-year survey data from the Pew Researc...
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作者：Yen, Wei-Ting; Liu, Li-Yin; Won, Eunji; Testriono
作者单位：Franklin & Marshall College; University System of Ohio; University of Dayton; Northern Illinois University
摘要：Preexisting political institutions influence governments' responses to public health crises in different ways, creating national variations. This article investigates how state capacity, a country's fundamental ability to organize bureaucracy and allocate societal resources, affects the timing and configuration of governments' COVID-19 policy responses. Through comparative case study analysis of five of China's neighboring countries early in the COVID-19 crisis, the paper shows that more-capab...
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作者：Wahman, Michael
作者单位：Michigan State University
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作者：Agerberg, Mattias
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：While commonly deployed in anti-corruption programs, corruption messaging has shown limited success. I argue that strategies focusing on injunctive norms (what most people approve of) have been underutilized and could be a feasible way of influencing perceptions in a desirable direction. In two studies fielded in Mexico, I first identify a substantial discrepancy between how individuals view the permissibility of corruption and their perceptions of other people's attitudes. In a follow-up prer...
