2021

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• Who leads? Village development committees and local governance in Southern Malawi AI翻译
  作者：Maiden, Emily; Guzman, Danice Brown; Bleck, Jaimie
  作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of North Florida; University of Notre Dame
  摘要：Since the 1980s, many developing countries have enacted policies of decentralization to create localized, representative forms of government. A highly under-studied body of local governance are village development committees (VDCs). Utilizing a mixed-method approach in three districts of Southern Malawi, we combine surveys, focus groups, and interviews to examine the role of VDCs in local politics. Selected by their peers, VDC members navigate a complicated landscape including: local and centr...
• State-targeted grievances and resources: Protest participation during economic downturns in Latin America AI翻译
  作者：Zarate-Tenorio, Barbara A.
  作者单位：University of Essex
  摘要：This article analyzes the determinants of protest participation in Latin America. Whereas most research emphasizes grievances over resources, or vice versa, this article explains protest participation as the interaction between individuals' state-targeted grievances and material resources. I argue that grievances and availability of material resources interact and fuel protest among individuals whose income falls close to the middle of the income distribution, but not among the poor or the ric...
• Unsustainable inequalities: Social justice and the environment AI翻译
  作者：de Renzio, Paolo
• Economic globalization and decentralization: A centrifugal or centripetal relationship? AI翻译
  作者：Jurado, Ignacio; Leon, Sandra
  作者单位：University of York - UK
  摘要：One of the most significant economic trends in the last decades has been the integration of countries in international markets. What have been the consequences of global economic integration upon the territorial organization of the states? Has it contributed to centralize powers or to further decentralization? The literature so far has provided inconclusive evidence. In this article we shed new light on the relationship between economic globalization and territorial politics by using a varied ...
• Shock the system: Emergency powers and political capacity AI翻译
  作者：Fisunoglu, Ali; Rooney, Bryan
  作者单位：Saint Louis University; RAND Corporation
  摘要：States that grant their leaders extraordinary powers in times of emergency do so to protect the nation against dramatic shocks. Implicit in this choice is the assumption that the government will better retain its capacity when confronted with an emergency situation if the leader can invoke emergency powers. This remains an untested proposition. In this article, we challenge this assumption and argue that the relationship between emergency powers and political capacity depends on both the natur...
• Institutional vulnerability and trust in public agencies: Views from both sides of the street AI翻译
  作者：Spink, Peter; Lotta, Gabriela; Burgos, Fernando
  作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation
  摘要：This article seeks to contribute to the discussion of the dynamics of trust in street-level public sector work, especially in settings where relationships between agencies, frontline workers, and society are fragile. Data was gathered in different vulnerable areas of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil using interviews with frontline workers and complemented with field notes from a five-year longitudinal study in one high-density area with a history of violence. Concern was to understand how, despit...
• The deficit myth: Modern monetary theory and the birth of the people's economy AI翻译
  作者：Tymoigne, Eric
  作者单位：Lewis & Clark College
• Is impartiality enough? Government impartiality and citizens' perceptions of public service quality AI翻译
  作者：Suzuki, Kohei; Demircioglu, Mehmet Akif
  作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; National University of Singapore
  摘要：Government impartiality is considered a core feature of quality of government, and one that leads to favorable macro-level outcomes. We have limited knowledge, however, of how impartiality affects citizens' perceptions of public service quality. In particular, we do not know how the impacts of impartiality differ across citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Understanding this relationship is important because citizens are the main beneficiaries of public services and are directly ...
• Balancing constituency and congruence: How constituency involvement affects positional congruence between organized interests and the general public AI翻译
  作者：Willems, Evelien; De Bruycker, Iskander
  作者单位：University of Antwerp; Maastricht University
  摘要：This article asks to what extent and under which conditions interest groups are congruent with public opinion. We argue that interest groups can be caught in a balancing act between engaging with their constituency on the one hand and aligning their position with the broader public on the other hand. We contribute to previous studies by arguing that the effect of interest group type on congruence is moderated by the degree to which constituencies are involved in advocacy processes and the sali...
• How global performance assessments shape attitudes toward government decision-making: Survey experimental evidence AI翻译
  作者：Davies, Emmerich; Gift, Thomas; Lastra-Anadon, Carlos X.
  作者单位：Harvard University; University of London; University College London; IE University
  摘要：Global Performance Assessments (GPAs), which rank countries on a range of policy areas, can encourage domestic demands for policy reform. Yet can they also affect at what level of government-local or national-citizens want reform to take place? We theorize that, by emphasizing how countries fare relative to others, GPAs prompt citizens to view domestic policy underperformance as a national problem requiring national solutions. This increases calls for vesting policymaking authority in the hand...