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作者：Arroja, Ricardo; Camoes, Pedro J.
作者单位：Universidade do Minho
摘要：Tax policies and public spending reflect the taking and giving powers of the government. However, when thinking about these, the taking powers of government are perceived as the most prominent. Why is the government's relationship with society seemingly asymmetric in that give and take? What leads to these perceptions? This article's starting point is instability in corporate income taxes and government expenditure arrears as two features of poor fiscal governance associated with lower corpora...
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作者：Wang, Feng; Wang, Min; Yin, Haitao
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：The use of campaign-style enforcement is often criticized for its lack of long-term impacts and lack of impacts beyond campaign-focused issues. Using a mixed approach that combines regression analysis and in-depth interviews, we studied the campaigns against straw burning in several provinces of China, and found evidence to support the contrary. The campaigns did effectively reduce straw-burning activities, and more importantly, the impact appears to be long lasting and may spill over to other...
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作者：Bacchus, Emily Beaulieu; Boulding, Carew
作者单位：University of Kentucky; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：How does the fairness of the democratic process influence public perceptions of corruption? This article demonstrates the ways that elections can influence broader confidence in democracy. Corruption is often described as one of the most serious problems facing democracy today, and citizen confidence in democracy has implications for system support and legitimacy. What constitutes corruption, however, is not always obvious. We focus on the importance of citizens' feelings about electoral integ...
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作者：Placek, Michal; Valentinov, Vladislav; Ochrana, Frantisek; Vacekova, Gabriela; Langr, Ivan; Pucek, Milan
作者单位：Charles University Prague; Leibniz Association; Leibniz Institut fur Agrarentwicklung in Transformationsokonomien (IAMO); Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg; Masaryk University; AMBIS University
摘要：Along with other postcommunist Central and East European countries, the Czech Republic continues to exhibit alarming levels of corruption. The present article draws on unique stakeholder interviews and document analysis to explore the evolving perceptions of corruption by Czech actors who had intimate knowledge of how this practice was occurring in the period between the last years of the communist regime until today. The key finding is that corruption in the Czechoslovakia and the Czech Repub...
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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：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...
