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作者:Jiang, Junyan; Meng, Tianguang; Zhang, Qing
作者单位:Chinese University of Hong Kong; Tsinghua University; Columbia University
摘要:Internet-based platforms are increasingly being used by governments around the world to facilitate public engagement with citizens. However, it remains an open question whether participation through these platforms can actually enable citizens to influence policies. We address this question by studying the patterns and consequences of online participation at a major electronic petition platform in China, a country with the world's largest Internet-using population. Content analysis of over 900...
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作者:Mendenhall, Elizabeth
作者单位:University of Rhode Island
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作者:Cooper, Christopher A.; Boucher, Maxime
作者单位:University of Ottawa; University of Waterloo
摘要:Does political uncertainty affect whether lobbyists contact government officials? We suggest that the answer depends on the type of uncertainty introduced. Distinguishing between policy objective uncertainty-where organized interests and lobbyists are uncertain about the policy intentions of decision makers-and issue information uncertainty-where policymakers are uncertain about the technical details of issues-we hypothesize that whereas an increase in policy objective uncertainty leads to a d...
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作者:Roelofs, Portia
摘要:It is increasingly recognized in public administration that the relationship between trust and transparency is not straightforward. Recently, right-wing populists have risen to power, rejecting transparency requirements based on documents while claiming that they hide nothing. Clearly, existing scholarly conceptualizations are insufficient for understanding how transparency operates as a value in real-world political contestation. An analysis of state- and national-level politics in Nigeria re...
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作者:Jabko, Nicolas
作者单位:Johns Hopkins University
摘要:The austerity policies that EU policymakers adopted in response to the Eurozone crisis are often criticized as the product of institutionalized neoliberal ideas. This critique has merits, but tends to overlook institutional changes that do not neatly conform to well demarcated neoliberal ideas considered as switchmen, paradigms, or blueprints. This article offers an alternative reading of the Eurozone's institutional evolution that bridges pragmatist scholarship with cognitive and social psych...