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作者：Kay, Kerenssa; Rogger, Daniel; Sen, Iman
作者单位：The World Bank
摘要：To what extent do public officials feel they have control over their lives in public service? We develop a new measure of perceived control in the bureaucracy based on the locus of control scale. The bureaucratic locus of control (BLOC) scale extends standard measures to a bureaucratic context as well as introduces an extension to these measures that focuses on the power of systemic forces in officials' lives. Field tests among a representative sample of Ethiopian public officials suggest that...
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作者：Baek, Jaeye
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
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作者：Opalo, Ken Ochieng'
作者单位：Georgetown University
摘要：Devolution complicates citizens' ability to assign responsibility for the provision of public goods and services to different tiers of government. Misattribution of responsibility limits the effectiveness of electoral accountability in the nested principal-agent relationships comprising voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. This raises two important questions. First, how do citizens learn about the functions of different tiers of government under devolution? Second, how do levels of political ...
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作者：Quah, Jon S. T.
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作者：Wescott, Clay G.
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作者：Reardon, Louise
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Zhang, Yuxi
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Previous research has attributed the delayed welfare development in China to the government's traditional obsession with GDP growth target as the principal criteria for cadre promotion. Yet why has health-care provision significantly expanded since the 2000s? This article argues that as central policies adjusted to incorporate health care as a priority, the cadre assessment system subsequently made it a hard target, and thus the competition for office has compelled local cadres to implement he...
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作者：Stec, Izabella Barati
作者单位：ESSCA School of Management
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作者：Hassan, Mai; O'Mealia, Thomas
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This article examines the subnational determinants of descriptive representation. Agency managers may be hesitant to hire women uniformly across all localities if they perceive geographic variation in role congruence, or the degree to which a position's duties match gender roles. We expect managerial perceptions to affect hiring patterns even after the adoption of a gender quota intended to improve descriptive representation, as managers will differentially hire women to meet the quota in loca...
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作者：Angulo Amaya, Maria Camila; Bertelli, Anthony Michael; Woodhouse, Eleanor Florence
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Bocconi University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; European University Institute
摘要：Infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs) eschew traditional public management to provide distributive goods worldwide. Yet, in Colombia, the context of our study, both the promise of and voters' experience with PPPs hinder incumbent parties in elections when theories of distributive politics expect otherwise. We argue that negative experiences with PPPs introduce a sociotropic turn in individual voting: bad experience crowds out the possibility that promising a new project will improv...
