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作者：Shen-Bayh, Fiona
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作者：Tatham, Michael; Hooghe, Liesbet; Marks, Gary
作者单位：University of Bergen; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; European University Institute
摘要：This article sets the stage for a special issue that examines the interplay between subnational and supranational governance. It begins by discussing how the territorial architecture of government has become more multilevel as national governments have shifted authority both downwards to subnational governments and upwards to international and supranational institutions. Next, we argue that this multilevel structure emanates from a tension between the drive to reap the functional benefits of s...
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作者：Yoruk, Erdem; Gencer, Alper Suekrue
作者单位：Koc University; University of Oxford; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Since the 1990s, South Africa, like many other countries from the Global South, has provided extensive social assistance for the poor. The literature on these policies, however, is largely dominated by structuralist accounts, and it largely overlooks political factors. We conducted quantitative analyses regarding the South African flagship Child Support Grant (CSG) program and investigated how contentious and electoral political dynamics jointly shape the provision of this program. Based on a ...
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作者：Olivas Osuna, Jose Javier; Kiefel, Max; Katsouyanni, Kira Gartzou
作者单位：Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED); University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Based on comparative qualitative research in five local authority areas, this article argues that local context is key to understanding the roots of the U.K.'s crisis of political trust and the result of the 2016 E.U. referendum. The competing cultural and economic causes of discontent suggested by the literature were found to be deeply intertwined when analyzed from a local perspective. The sense of political disempowerment and negative attitudes toward migration were ingrained in and reinfor...
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作者：Dincecco, Mark
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Feldman, Robin
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作者：Landry, Julien
作者单位：University of Ottawa
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作者：Yang, Wenhui; Shen, Xiaoxiao
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Princeton University
摘要：Do social welfare benefits enhance political legitimacy in nondemocracies? Conventional wisdom treats material interest as being the central mechanism underpinning widespread political attitudes, but social welfare is not always effective in garnering political support in nondemocracies. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that even though receiving social welfare benefits has significantly improved individuals' well-being, their political support in different levels of government...
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作者：Shephard, Daniel D.; Ellersiek, Anne; Meuer, Johannes; Rupietta, Christian; Mayne, Ruth; Cairney, Paul
作者单位：Columbia University; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Wuppertal; University of Stirling
摘要：There is a need to conduct more diverse cross-case analyses in the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) literature which originated in the United States, to show how key concepts, such as a windows-of-opportunity and the role of policy entrepreneurs, manifest in different political contexts. We apply Qualitative Comparative Analysis for a cross-case analysis of a unique dataset representing 20 countries from four continents. This approach allows us to highlight distinct pathways to influencing poli...
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作者：van der Kamp, Denise S.
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong
摘要：In the past decade, China has increasingly resorted to top-down, blunt force solutions to environmental problems; officials forcibly shutter or destroy factories to reduce pollution, at immense cost to local growth and employment. Why would a high capacity state like China resort to such a costly method of pollution control? I argue that blunt force enforcement is targeted at overcoming principal-agent problems in the bureaucracy. When institutions are too weak to hold bureaucrats accountable,...
