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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：Ainsley, Caitlin
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：This article examines the politics of the Federal Reserve System of regional banks. While regional banks have long lacked meaningful influence over monetary policy, their leadership stands to provide a base of elite support for the Federal Reserve. To serve this role effectively, however, regional bank leadership must reflect the ideological diversity of political elites. This article provides the first quantitative empirical analysis of the ideological composition of the regional banking syst...
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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...
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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...
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作者：Jakli, Laura; Stenberg, Matthew
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：While numerous studies consider the roles that media consolidation, court-packing, and economic crises have played in Hungary's democratic decline since 2010, none have considered the subnational mechanisms driving illiberalism. This study examines the types of subnational procedural tinkering that propel illiberalism by reducing local capacity for institutional resilience. Specifically, we trace how the right-wing Fidesz-KDNP government implemented subnational constraints to prevent the reeme...
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作者：Leland, Suzanne; Chattopadhyay, Jaqueline; Maestas, Cherie; Piatak, Jaclyn
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：This article defines a concept of relative trust-the gap between trust in different levels of government in a federalist system-and examines whether it influences public attitudes about which level of government holds authority in specific policy domains. While scholars have explored how trust in government affects political systems from a national perspective, little is known about how trust influences multitiered government systems in which public trust levels differ for national versus subn...
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作者：Jezierska, Katarzyna; Sorbom, Adrienne
作者单位：University West - Sweden; Sodertorn University
摘要：The credibility of think tanks is grounded in their image as independent experts. In order to gain authority to act, think tanks must be seen as independent, but in order to exert influence and gain funding, think tanks are forced to compromise this independent image. We focus on how think tanks handle this independence paradox. How do think tanks use different resources to construct an independent image? The aim of the article is conceptual, as we develop a theoretical model of the independen...
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作者：Maccarrone, Vincenzo
作者单位：University College Dublin
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作者：Kolstad, Ivar
作者单位：Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：We analyze the economic performance of countries after a multi-decade political ruler, defined as having been in office 20 or more years, loses power. For 37 countries experiencing such an end-of-reign event in the period 1971-2005, we use an event study approach to compare growth in the decade following the event with growth in pre-event periods. The results show that event countries have below average growth in the year a long-term political leader leaves office and that cumulative growth in...
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作者：Eckhard, Steffen
作者单位：University of Konstanz
摘要：Bureaucratic representation theory holds that civil servants are not neutral in a Weberian sense. Bureaucrats are thought to actively represent their communities by trying to make them better off. This article proposes an alternative understanding of individual behavior in representation that emphasizes knowledge sharing instead of patronage, but leads to similar outcomes: Their societal background provides officials with advanced social knowledge about the group(s) they represent, including b...
