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作者：Chen, Sicheng; Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang
作者单位：Tsinghua University; University of Oslo; Renmin University of China
摘要：It is well known that public agencies are nearly immortal, but what explains their termination? This article argues that apart from conventional antecedents, political salience defined by top leaders largely shapes government agencies' life cycle. In one of the first large-N analyses of agency termination in a non-Western authoritarian regime, we used longitudinal data for the central apparatus in China from 1949 to 1976 to test this hypothesis. We specifically used Chairman Mao's written dire...
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作者：Broms, Rasmus; Kokkonen, Andrej
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; University of Gothenburg
摘要：This study highlights the impact that medieval patterns of intrafamily inheritance practices wield on contemporary institutional quality. We argue that regions that practiced inegalitarian inheritance developed stronger institutions than regions that practiced egalitarian inheritance, for two reasons. First, we argue that transmitting land to a single heir resulted in a sense of personal ownership and, by extension, encouraged individual property rights. Second, we argue that the fact that dis...
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作者：Hsueh, Lily
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This article argues that the interactions between firm agency in corporate management and the multilevel governance structures in which firms operate condition firms' participation and effort in private governance regimes. Empirically, I examine the Fortune Global 500 firms' decisions about participation and the extent of participation in the Carbon Disclosure Project during 2011-2015. Given firms' strategic considerations, the efficacy of corporate management structures and practices is condi...
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作者：Neshkova, Milena I.; Kalesnikaite, Vaiva
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) Brockport
摘要：Prior research indicates that corruption hampers economic growth and imposes high social costs. From the perspective of democratic theory, corruption does not just violate the fiduciary obligations with which the public entrusts government officials; it has detrimental effects on the legitimacy of the democratic process as a whole. If citizens view their government as corrupt and dishonest, they become cynical about political life, and as a result, they are less likely to participate in democr...
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作者：Jindra, Christoph; Vaz, Ana
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：In 2015, the international community committed to reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions. According to international development agencies, good governance is crucial to achieving this. We examine the relationship between good governance and multidimensional poverty using hierarchical models and survey data for 71 countries. Our results suggest there is a direct effect of good governance on multidimensional poverty a...
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作者：de Renzio, Paolo
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作者：Biswas, Bidisha; Vijaya, Ramya M.
作者单位：Western Washington University; Stockton University
摘要：This article examines the role of economic class in mobilizing against corruption. Across several countries, recent anticorruption movements have been attributed to the growing urban middle class. Yet, existing studies have not examined how citizens view their own agency and how their views may be affected by their class position. We use Transparency International's Global Corruption Barometer survey and a case study of India to critically examine the class dimensions of anticorruption mobiliz...
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作者：Duran-Martinez, Angelica
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell
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作者：Hinck, Robert S.
作者单位：Monmouth College
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作者：Castaneda, Nestor; Doyle, David
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Oxford
摘要：Governments in many industrializing democracies face difficult policy trade-offs. Liberalization and informality have placed electoral pressure on them to expand noncontributory social spending. However, governments in developing democracies face constraints when attempting to finance this expansion. In some countries, the informal labor market is very large, thereby undermining the revenue that can be collected through income tax. We argue that this has given rise to a paradoxical situation. ...
