作者：Tatham, Michael; Bauer, Michael W.
作者单位：University of Bergen
摘要：How can we better understand the architecture of government? Governmental structures are regularly altered by the dispersion of power upward and downward to supranational and subnational bodies. The preferences of citizens and elites in this regard are well documented at the national and EU levels. However, the preferences of regional elites remain somewhat of a black box. What are their preferences when it comes to the distribution of competences across the regional-national-EU triptych? This...
作者：Schlaufer, Caroline
作者单位：HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
摘要：Citizen online participation has become an increasingly important feature of policymaking in nondemocratic regimes. This article explores the question of why nondemocratic governments promote e-participation tools. To address this question, this research examines the motives for the introduction of the Active Citizen e-voting platform in Moscow through an in-depth case study drawing on interviews and qualitative document analysis. The case study identifies a variety of objectives pursued by th...
作者：Kennedy, John; Alcantara, Christopher; Armstrong, David, II
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Political parties regularly make promises to the public about what they hope to accomplish if and when they are elected to office. Once in office, the winning party, usually via the executive branch, announces its agenda by delivering a speech from the throne or a state of the union/nation address in the legislature. To what extent are governments able to fulfill the promises they make in these speeches? To answer this question, we investigate the impact of three structural constraints on prom...
作者：Eriksen, Andreas
作者单位：Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet)
