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作者:Krause, George A.; Jin, Roger Qiyuan
作者单位:University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; California State University System; California State University Dominguez Hills
摘要:The landmark U.S. Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (BAA) instituted a series of administrative reforms that proponents claimed would improve budgetary control, stability, and coherence. We maintain that the compatibility of governance structures between agency and system levels is critical for understanding why these administrative centralization efforts were successful in achieving these aims for some federal agencies but not others. The BAA reforms impact on budgetary outcomes is evaluated ...
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作者:Huang, Xian; Kim, Sung Eun
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Korea University
摘要:Authoritarian local leaders face two driving forces in social policymaking: top-down pressure from the regime and bottom-up motivations derived from local conditions. Existing studies recognize the importance of both forces, but remain unclear as to how they interact and which of them is more influential in driving local policy adoption. Focusing on two health insurance integration policies in China, we find that when the policy entails substantial class or distributive conflicts and bureaucra...
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作者:Cross, James P.; Greene, Derek
作者单位:University College Dublin
摘要:This article unveils the policy agenda of the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council as found in the speeches that Governing Council Members gave between 1999 and 2018. Using a dynamic topic-modeling approached based on non-negative matrix factorization, we demonstrate how the issues discussed by ECB Governing Council members have evolved over time, and how the general punctuation hypothesis (Jones, B. D. & Baumgartner, F. R. (2005). The politics of attention: How government prioritizes...
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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:Penca, Jerneja