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作者：Quaglia, Lucia
作者单位：University of Bologna
摘要：Why do jurisdictions comply (or not) with international soft law in finance? This research systematically links international and domestic explanations of compliance by highlighting the disjuncture between the international standard-setting process and the process of domestic compliance. Two causal mechanisms that affect compliance are identified. In the uploading stage, elected officials delegate the making of international soft law to domestic regulators; large, internationally active financ...
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作者：Stark, Alastair
作者单位：University of Queensland
摘要：This article explains why different government agencies experience variations in organizational memory loss. It first explains institutional amnesia theoretically by expanding the formal-institutional view of organizational memory to include agential and structural-contextual properties, revealing a broader range of novel explanations for amnesia. Institutional amnesia is then explained empirically through an international analysis of memory loss in four Westminster systems (Australia, Canada,...
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作者：Richardson, Liz; Durose, Catherine; Dean, Rikki J.
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of Birmingham; Goethe University Frankfurt
摘要：Decentralized decision making has created restructuring from larger to smaller administrative units, but in many places, strays little from existing arrangements. Moves toward decentralization from central government to city-regions, and in some areas, below city-region scale to neighborhoods, reflect a mandate for reform. What is the nature and extent of desired reforms? Using an institutionalist lens, homogeneity and heterogeneity in local narratives about possible future reform can be surfa...
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作者：Kaufmann, David; Sager, Fritz
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：We analyze locational policy coordination in the metropolitan regions of secondary capital cities. Secondary capital cities-defined as capitals that are not the primary economic city of their nation states-serve as the political center of their nation states; however, they must simultaneously explore new ways to develop their own regional economies. Locational policies, and their regional coordination, aim to strengthen the economic competitiveness of metropolitan regions. Our comparison of th...
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作者：Stockemer, Daniel; Sundstrom, Aksel
作者单位：University of Ottawa; Harvard University; University of Gothenburg
摘要：Research on corruption and women in politics has mainly focused on legislatures, generally finding that corruption decreases the election of women. This article turns the spotlight to the executive branch-an arena where selection is less transparent than recruitment to legislative seats-and examines if corruption decrease the share of ministers who are women. Drawing on feminist institutionalist theories, we posit that in an environment of high political corruption, (male) elites involved in c...
