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作者：Wengle, Susanne A.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：In the 1990s, rural economies in many post-Soviet countries suffered from a staggering decline in production and from outmigration. Over the last 10 to 15 years, some agricultural producers in the former Soviet Union have managed to reverse decline: they have updated production facilities, improved productivity, and increased production and exports. These trends are uneven, as some farmers in some countries are thriving, while others are on the brink of economic collapse. What are the conditio...
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作者：Cingolani, Luciana; Fazekas, Mihaly
作者单位：Hertie School; Central European University
摘要：Agencification has been pursued globally under the promise of increasing public administration performance. In spite of ample theoretical arguments, the empirical evidence on the causal link between agencification and performance remains scarce and methodologically contested. We contribute to this debate by empirically testing the impacts of agencification across Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom on value-for-money, competitiveness, and timeliness during the period 2006-2016. We use uniqu...
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作者：Hernandez, Christian
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：At the turn of the century, the consensus among scholars was that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) policy preferences, which centered on deflation via austerity, privatization, and deregulation, were indicative of its neoliberal bias. However, a subsequent wave of literature has challenged this view by suggesting that the IMF has demonstrated flexibility. While these accounts arrive at their conclusion via different analytical and empirical focuses, this article posits that the flexibil...
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作者：Kudrna, Zdenek
作者单位：Salzburg University
摘要：The EU strives to harmonize banking regulation, while its member states continue to insist on a degree of differentiation to accommodate national specifics. A new data set of national options and discretions (O&Ds) embedded in EU banking legislation facilitates systematic analysis of member states' policy preferences across multiple policy cycles. Its results suggest that states' O&D choices are related to their respective variety of banking capitalism. Coordinated and liberal market economies...
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作者：Yuan, Elaine J.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
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作者：Bauhr, Monika; Czibik, Agnes; Licht, Jenny de Fine; Fazekas, Mihaly
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Central European University
摘要：The increased focus on marketizing mechanisms and contracting-out operations following the New Public Management reform agenda has sparked a debate on whether the close interactions between public and private actors might drive corruption in the public sector. The main response to those worries has been increased transparency, but so far empirical evidence of its efficiency remains scant and mixed. This article argues that the beneficial effects of transparency on corruption are contingent on ...
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作者：Bishara, Dina
作者单位：Cornell University
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作者：Penca, Jerneja
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作者：Piroska, Dora
作者单位：Central European University; Corvinus University Budapest
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作者：Ryu, Lanhee; Moon, M. Jae; Yang, Jae-jin
作者单位：Yonsei University
摘要：Revisiting the seminal study of March and Olson (1983), this article aimed to empirically test whether or not government reorganizations at the ministerial level can be better explained by political factors than administrative and functional rhetoric. Government reorganizations have often been understood as functional adaptations to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness, but little empirical research has been conducted on their political context. By analyzing pooled-time series ...
