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作者：Liu, Xinsheng; Stoutenborough, James; Vedlitz, Arnold
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Idaho State University
摘要：Classic theory on bureaucracy suggests that one primary source of bureaucratic power in public administration and the policy-making process derives from bureaucratic issue-specific expertise. Studies in psychology and behavioral economics suggest that experienced experts tend to be overconfident in estimating their expertise, but few researchers have examined whether experienced bureaucrats are prone to overconfidence and, if so, how overconfidence may correlate with their policy choice. Drawi...
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作者：Cox, Robert Henry
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
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作者：Nielsen, Poul A.; Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：A core task for elected officials is to hold bureaucratic leaders responsible, but how do they determine if public managers actually influence outcomes? We propose that partisan and leadership heuristics affect how politicians apply a logic of individualized responsibility, that is, focus on individual bureaucrats rather than situational factors to explain organizational outcomes. We match survey data of local elected officials in Denmark with individual partisan variables and objective perfor...
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作者：Lucinda Benton, Allyson; Smith, Heidi Jane M.
作者单位：Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE); Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
摘要：Opportunistic electoral fiscal policy cycle theory suggests that all subnational officials will raise fiscal spending during elections. Ideological partisan fiscal policy cycle theory suggests that only left-leaning governments will raise election year fiscal spending, with right-leaning parties choosing the reverse. This article assesses which of these competing logics applies to debt policy choices. Cross-sectional time-series analysis of yearly loan acquisition across Mexican municipalities...
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作者：Boin, Arjen; Kofman, Celesta; Kuilman, Jeroen; Kuipers, Sanneke; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Tilburg University; University of Antwerp; Cardiff University
摘要：Public administration scholars tend to take for granted that organizational adaptation is important. This common notion that public organizations must adapt to stay alive has not been put to the test in the field of public administration, however. Intriguingly, organization ecologists find that adaptation does not matter and might even be counterproductive for individual organizations. They argue that the absence of adaptationwhich they refer to as structural inertiaactually enhances the likel...
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作者：Lewis, J. P.
作者单位：University of New Brunswick
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作者：Hassan, Mai; O'Mealia, Thomas
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Hern, Erin Accampo
作者单位：College of Idaho
摘要：A growing body of policy feedback work demonstrates that citizens' experiences with public policy influence the way they participate in politics. Most of this work takes place in advanced industrial democracies, but the nuances of policy design influencing participation in advanced democracies are often irrelevant for those in low-capacity democracies. This study extends the policy feedback framework to address how policies might feed back differently in low-capacity countries with uneven basi...
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作者：Oliveira, Eduardo
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow & Landscape Research
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作者：Herron, Erik S.; Boyko, Nazar; Thunberg, Michael E.
作者单位：West Virginia University
摘要：The development of a neutral, professional bureaucracy has been a profound concern for emerging democracies. International and domestic actors have expended significant resources to encourage the development of the rule of law, yet many postcommunist societies remain mired in corruption. When corrupt behaviors are integrated with a core function of democratic states, such as the implementation of free and fair elections, the implications of failures to professionalize bureaucrats are enhanced....
