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作者：Broms, Rasmus; Dahlstrom, Carl; Nistotskaya, Marina
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition for the market on service quality. Using residential elder care homes in Sweden as our case, we leverage unique panel data of ownership and competition against a set of indicators, pertaining to the structure, process, and outcome dimensions of care quality. The main finding of our analyses is that competitio...
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作者：Liu, Dongshu
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：Nongovernmental organizations are important in policy processes, but most studies supporting this argument are conducted in democracies. This article, therefore, focuses on China's environmental policy to discuss how environmental NGOs (eNGOs) conduct policy advocacy in authoritarian contexts. Based on interviews with eNGOs and scholars in China, I provide a typology to describe policy advocacy channels based on their formality and consistency and explain how channels are selected based on the...
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作者：Meier, Kenneth J.
作者单位：American University; Cardiff University; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
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作者：Zhang, Qing
作者单位：Sichuan International Studies University
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作者：Heinkelmann-Wild, Tim; Zangl, Bernhard
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：Who blames whom in multilevel blame games? Existing research focuses either on policymakers' preferences or their opportunities offered by the institutional structures in which policymakers operate. As these two strands of literature barely refer to each other, in this article we develop an integrated theoretical model of blame-shifting in multilevel governance systems and assess it empirically. In line with the first strand, we assume that policymakers have a preference for shifting blame ont...
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作者：Schuster, Christian; Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik; Mikkelsen, Kim Sass
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Nottingham; Roskilde University
摘要：Do management practices have similar anticorruption effects in OECD and developing countries? Despite prominent cautions against New Zealand reforms which enhance managerial discretion in developing countries, scholars have not assessed this question statistically. Our article addresses this gap through a conjoint experiment with 6,500 public servants in three developing countries and one OECD country. Our experiment assesses Weberian relative to managerial approaches to recruitment, job stabi...
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作者：Huskey, James L.
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作者：Peters, B. Guy; Pierre, Jon
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; University of Gothenburg
摘要：In the wake of the audit revolution during the 1980s and 1990s, administrative systems across the western world have tended to gradually downplay evaluation as a component of the policy process. At the same time, auditing has dramatically increased in scope and depth, and has also, to some extent, come to fill the role in policymaking previously played by evaluation studies. This article reviews this development from the perspective of policymaking and institutional change or drift. Specifical...
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作者：Guidi, Mattia; Guardiancich, Igor; Levi-Faur, David
作者单位：University of Siena; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：This article introduces the special issue by presenting a framework for the study of regulatory politics using the analytical tools and approaches of comparative political economy. Having traced the evolution of studies on regulation, it argues that scholars should pay more attention to the systemic features affecting regulation and to the relationship between regulatory policies and their outcomes. The article presents the foundations of an analytical framework based on the regulatory policy ...
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作者：Bulfone, Fabio
作者单位：Max Planck Society
摘要：Relying on insights from the comparative capitalism debate, this article compares the industrial policy strategies implemented by the Italian and Spanish governments to favor the internationalization of domestic electricity and telecommunications incumbents. It is shown how the cross-sectoral and cross-country variation in the outcome of their industrial policy efforts-that is, successful or unsuccessful internationalization-is explained by the reciprocal power relationship between governments...
