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作者：Gillanders, Robert; van Der Werff, Lisa
作者单位：Dublin City University; Dublin City University
摘要：It is understood that corruption can change the incentives to engage in political violence. However, the scope for corruption to change attitudes toward the permissibility of violence has received less attention. Drawing on Moral Foundations Theory, we argue that experiences of corruption in the social environment are likely to shape individual attitudes toward violent behavior. Using Afrobarometer data, we document a statistically significant and sizable relationship between an individual's e...
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作者：Asatryan, Georgi; Kalpakian, Jack
作者单位：Plekhanov Russian University of Economics; Al Akhawayn University
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作者：Christensen, Johan; Mandelkern, Ronen
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Tel Aviv University
摘要：Economists are by many accounts the most influential group of experts in contemporary political decision-making. While the literature on the power of economists mostly focuses on the policy ideas of economic experts, some recent studies suggest that economists also hold particular technocratic ideas about the policy process. The article systematically tests this argument. Focusing on economists within government bureaucracy, the study is based on a quantitative analysis of a large-scale survey...
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作者：Baekgaard, Martin; Blom-Hansen, Jens; Serritzlew, Soren
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The relationship between politicians and bureaucrats is an enduring concern in political science. Central to this debate, Aberbach, Putnam, and Rockman (APR) in 1981 developed four images to characterize political-bureaucratic relations. We argue that the one-dimensional focus on roles in their images comes with important limitations. To deal with these limitations, we collect survey responses from 3,384 local politicians from four countries on seven dimensions of the political-bureaucratic re...
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作者：Palus, Christine K.; Yackee, Susan W.
作者单位：Villanova University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：When the bureaucracy's political principals hold different preferences for policy, does this increase the bureaucracy's policymaking autonomy? Existing theory strongly suggests yes. We, however, argue that this pattern will materialize only when the bureaucracy's principals are all on the same side of the political divide. (i.e., unified government). Using data gathered from the American states at two time points, we capture preference divergence by measuring the ideological distance between t...
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作者：Klaus, Kathleen
作者单位：University of San Francisco
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作者：Svensen, Eric Paul
作者单位：Texas State University System; Sam Houston State University
摘要：Over the past few decades, scholars have developed a rich research record on the causes and consequences of low presidential approval ratings. While this literature has provided valuable insight on presidential approval, little attention is paid to how agency failures also impact approval. In this article, I argue this understudied topic can provide additional leverage to help understand when public trust in the president is eroded. Using Markov Regime switching models of weekly approval ratin...
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作者：Cammett, Melani; Sasmaz, Aytug
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：In many developing countries, non-state actors, including those with religious or political affiliations, provide basic social services. Do politicized ethnoreligious divisions shape citizen choices of providers? Does service quality vary when patients visit ingroup or outgroup facilities? Building on studies of the diversity deficit and on outgroup generosity, we focus on how the relationship between frontline service providers and citizens affects the quality of services. Among facilities ru...
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作者：Finger, Leslie K.; Lastra-Anadon, Carlos X.
作者单位：University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton; IE University
摘要：Many public services in the United States are administered through non-state actors, many of which are nonprofits with broad social missions. Some scholars show that contracting these organizations can compromise their broader goals and political activities, while others find that such arrangements empower the organizations to engage in advocacy and influence policy. We argue that not only can contracting strengthen nonprofits' capacities to engage in politics and advance their missions, but i...
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作者：Salazar-Morales, Diego Alonso
作者单位：Hertie School
摘要：This article, building on the emerging theoretical corpus of reputation theory provides an alternative explanation about how successful policies are obtained in contexts of bureaucratic weakness and volatile politics. The argument is that politicians choose to intervene in delivering successful policies based on how contributable such policies are to construct their political reputations. The findings suggest that in both countries, less tenured politicians face higher incentives to build thei...
