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作者：Barnes, Tiffany D.; Beaulieu, Emily; Saxton, Gregory W.
作者单位：University of Kentucky
摘要：Recent studies show a clear link between women in government and reduced concerns about corruption. Until now, it remains unclear which underlying attitudes about women explain the perception that they will reduce corruption. Using a survey question about adding women to a police force, with an embedded experimental treatment, we examine three distinct stereotypes that might explain the power of women to reduce concerns about corruption: gender stereotypes of women as more ethical and honest, ...
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作者：Sheingate, Adam; Graziano, Paolo
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; University of Padua
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作者：Borang, Frida; Cornell, Agnes; Grimes, Marcia; Schuster, Christian
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Aarhus University; University of London; University College London
摘要：Accurate knowledge about societal conditions and public policies is an important public good in any polity, yet governments across the world differ dramatically in the extent to which they collect and publish such knowledge. This article develops and tests the argument that this variation to some extent can be traced to the degree of bureaucratic politicization in a polity. A politicized bureaucracy offers politicians greater opportunities to demand from bureaucratsand raises incentives for bu...
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作者：Laegreid, Per
作者单位：University of Bergen
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作者：Budde, Emma T.; Knill, Christoph; Fernandez-i-Marin, Xavier; Preidel, Caroline
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：The question of whether or not religion accounts for variance in the governance of moral issues, between and within countries over time, has long been debated but never conclusively answered. A novel data set encompassing innovative measurements of state regulation of life-and-death issues and of the religious stratification of society enables us to answer why previous studies reached contradictory results. The time-series cross-sectional analysis of 26 countries over 50 years reveals that dom...
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作者：Hartlapp, Miriam; Heidbreder, Eva G.
作者单位：Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf; Free University of Berlin
摘要：European economic integration creates unintended consequences for national public administrations. This article offers a conceptual and empirical analysis of how these challenges are met. First, three challenges are identified: a reduced capacity to offer services to citizens who move freely, increasing administrative burdens, and negative externalities for all parts from a single states' administrative failure. Second, a conceptual framework is developed that links each challenge to a most li...
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作者：Brinkerhoff, Derick W.; Wetterberg, Anna; Wibbels, Erik
作者单位：Research Triangle Institute; Duke University
摘要：In most poor countries, basic services in rural areas are less accessible and of lower quality than those in urban settings. In this article, we investigate the subnational geography of service delivery and its relationship with citizens' perceptions of their government by analyzing the relationship between service access, satisfaction with services and government, and the distance to urban centers for more than 21,000 survey respondents across 17 African countries. We confirm that access to s...
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作者：Bundi, Pirmin
作者单位：University of Zurich
摘要：This article demonstrates how attributes of policy fields shape parliamentary oversight across policy fields. Building on the accountability literature, the study develops the argument that parliamentarians will more likely oversee policy fields where cooperative forms of governance are more present, since these policies are more difficult to assess and have a higher need of legitimation. Using the example of policy evaluation demand by members of parliament in Switzerland, the study suggests ...
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作者：Stuenkel, Oliver
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation
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作者：Hyun, Christopher; Post, Alison E.; Ray, Isha
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Significant development funding flows to informational interventions intended to improve public services. Such transparency fixes often depend on the cooperation of frontline workers who produce or disseminate information for citizens. This article examines frontline worker compliance with a transparency intervention in Bangalore's water sector. Why did compliance vary across neighborhoods, and why did workers exhibit modest rates of compliance overall? Drawing on ethnographic observation and ...
