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作者：Soifer, Hillel David
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
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作者：Li, Tao; Mo, Kun
作者单位：University of Macau
摘要：Access to college is critical for social mobility in China. Using a detailed college admission database that includes essentially all four-year public universities from 2005 to 2013, we demonstrate that Chinese universities preallocate more admission seats to provinces that happen to fall under the leadership of their alumni. Moreover, we demonstrate that the identified admission favoritism constitutes a political exchange between public universities and their powerful alumni in the sense that...
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作者：de Avila Gomide, Alexandre
作者单位：Instituto de Pesquisa Economica Aplicada (IPEA)
摘要：This article analyzes the political-institutional determinants of bureaucracy quality among a group of newly industrialized countries in Latin America and East Asia democratized in the Third Wave. Four causal conditions are examined for the occurrence of higher levels of bureaucratic weberianess in the selected cases: historical sequence, political parties' institutionalization, electoral competition, and ethnic politics. The study employs the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to expl...
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作者：Moutselos, Michalis; Schonwalder, Karen
作者单位：University of Cyprus; Max Planck Society
摘要：Participation and representation of disadvantaged groups are important, but partly still understudied aspects of democratic politics. The present article looks at the inclusion of migrant representatives in urban governance networks making use of original survey data from 40 large cities in France and Germany. We find that about half of policy-relevant urban actors in both countries and across cities cooperate with migrant associations regularly. This indicates that urban governance networks a...
