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作者：Allen, Richard
作者单位：International Monetary Fund
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作者：Quah, Jon S. T.
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作者：Reed, David S.
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作者：Heider, Caroline
作者单位：The World Bank
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作者：Boswell, John
作者单位：University of Southampton
摘要：There is widespread skepticism among policy scholars and practitioners about the move to rationalize policy making: The naive vision of evidence-based policy is often contrasted with the reality of policy-based evidence. Yet, the language of evidence-based policy making (EBPM) continues to dominate policy debate about complex and contested issues. In this paper, I explore this apparent paradox by looking at what makes EBPM such a useful myth for all sorts of policy actors. I do so with referen...
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作者：Wengle, Susanne A.
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：Rising global prices for agricultural commodities have led to the inflow of capital to rural economies and to transfers of land ownership to new agricultural operators (NAOs) in developing and post-Soviet countries. How capital inflows affect rural communities is often explained with the variable of institutional strength, an explanation aligned with the good governance approach to economic development: Capital inflows have positive developmental effects, if strong domestic institutions vet la...
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作者：Almanzar, Tanya; Aspinwall, Mark; Crow, David
作者单位：Universidad de Guadalajara; Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE)
摘要：Transparency guarantees in Mexico presented a serious challenge to its 2007-2012 war on drugs. We use an original database of access to information requests, including both petitions for information and appeals to IFAI. We conduct statistical tests on the databases, finding that transparency is lower on security issues, as expected, but that there are unexpected variations between security agencies, and over time. We then conduct a content analysis of freedom of information requests to determi...
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作者：Halpin, Darren R.; Fraussen, Bert; Nownes, Anthony J.
作者单位：Australian National University; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要：Interest groups are important intermediaries in Western democracies, with the potential to offer political linkage and form a bridge between the concerns of citizens and the agendas of political elites. While we know an increasing amount about the issue-based activity of groups, we only have a limited understanding about how they selected these issues to work on. In this article, we examine the process of agenda setting within groups. In particular, we address challenges of conceptualization a...
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作者：Shortland, Anja
作者单位：University of London; King's College London
摘要：The intersection between the formal and criminal economies presents a range of intractable coordination and enforcement problems. Who orders and facilitates the interactions between private, legal entities, and criminals (potentially) engaged in kidnap for ransom? I analyze the contracts, protocols, norms, and agencies created by insurers to govern this unusual market. Stringent insurance contracts, effective security measures, and orderly resolutions create a profitable market for kidnap insu...
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作者：Breunig, Christian; Koski, Chris
作者单位：University of Konstanz; Reed College - Portland
摘要：We offer a model of how interest groups affect policy stability. The relationship between interest group density and policy volatility is concave because of two forces: (a) the number and interaction of interest groups in a policy domain and (b) the effect of this interaction on policy image and attention. After laying out the logics of both processes, we identify three ideal type situations: (a) capture (low interest group density, low attention) and (b) deadlock (high interest group density,...
