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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：Dincecco, Mark
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：de Renzio, Paolo
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作者：Newland, Sara A.; Liu, John Chung-En
作者单位：Smith College; National Taiwan University
摘要：Countless studies have shown that local officials are less responsive to ethnic minority citizens. Surprisingly, we find no similar pattern of discrimination by Taiwanese local officials. In an online contacting experiment, we send citizen service requests to the websites of 358 township and district chiefs, randomly varying the name of the putative citizen to reflect an indigenous or an ethnically Chinese identity and collecting data on officials' responses. We find that officials are equally...
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作者：Chan, Kwan Nok; Lam, Wai Fung; Chen, Shaowei
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; Hunan University
摘要：What explains agenda outcomes in authoritarian regimes? Existing research attributes policy priorities to either the autocrat's survival needs or the co-optation of external interests. The former leaves out policy choices beyond the calculus of regime survival; and the latter elite power play that bears more immediately on government priorities than activities at the fringe. We hypothesize that officials working under autocrats who seek co-optative elite bargains are more likely to prioritize ...
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作者：Blaydes, Lisa
作者单位：Stanford University
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作者：Nunberg, Barbara
作者单位：Georgetown University
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
