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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,...
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作者：Kroll, Alexander; Remington, Christa L.; Awasthi, Pallavi; Ganapati, N. Emel
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要：One of the most pressing governance challenges around the globe is managing disasters and their underlying risk factors. Little is known about effective strategies to minimize burnout and posttraumatic stress disorder among practitioners involved in addressing this challenge, especially in countries that rely mainly on international aid agencies for the delivery of basic services to their citizens. This article draws on the emotional labor literature to identify routes addressing the negative ...
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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...
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作者：Tymoigne, Eric
作者单位：Lewis & Clark College
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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...
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作者：Bertels, Jana; Schulze-Gabrechten, Lena
作者单位：University of Potsdam
摘要：This article explores the structural diversity of intraministerial organization over time. Based on organization theory, it proposes a generic typology for intraministerial units applicable to any hierarchically structured government organization. We empirically investigate the critical case of the German federal bureaucracy. By classifying its subunits, we analyze the longitudinal development of structural differentiation and its correspondence to denominational variety. The data stem from a ...
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作者：Yang, Wenhui
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Monitoring institutions are usually perceived as efficient instruments for improving governance. This article evaluates the link between corruption monitoring and the supply of politicians in nondemocracies. Using China as a case, I show that corruption monitoring pushes capable young elites away from seeking government positions. This effect may be driven by two possible mechanisms: economic returns and career prospects. Specifically, corruption investigations may reduce the expected economic...
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作者：Siren, Sebastian
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：The evolution of public social expenditures displays divergent patterns across non-western countries. This exploratory article argues that in order to understand the domestic sources of this divergence, institutional and structural explanations should be complemented with an actor-oriented perspective. Analyses of the role of party politics in non-OECD democracies, through multivariate fixed-effect regressions using data from 46 countries between 1995 and 2015, reveals a robust positive associ...
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作者：Hernes, Vilde
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：This article tests an often-stated assumption in the machinery of government literature: that government parties' issue and policy preferences affect the ministerial structure. Using a new Dataset on Immigrant Integration Governance (DIIG) that documents the ministerial structure of immigrant integration in 16 Western European countries during 1997-2017, the analysis finds that divergence and change characterize the ministerial structure. The analysis finds that right-oriented governments are ...
