作者:Buxton, Julia
作者单位:Central European University
作者:Babones, Salvatore
作者单位:University of Sydney
作者:Overman, Sjors
作者单位:Utrecht University
摘要:Is the delegation of public services to semi-autonomous agencies associated with increased citizen satisfaction? This article assesses three theoretical routes that might link the two: responsiveness, credible commitment, and blame deflection. The article draws on data from the European Social Survey and an expert survey about delegation of tax and police services to semi-autonomous agencies in 15 countries. No supporting evidence was found for the responsiveness and credible commitment theori...
作者:Koehn, Peter H.
作者单位:University of Montana System; University of Montana
作者:Walgrave, Stefaan; Dejaeghere, Yves
作者单位:University of Antwerp
摘要:Information in politics is overabundant. Especially elite politicians are bombarded with information. Politicians must be selective to stay on top of the information torrent. Aggregate-level work within the bounded rationality framework showed that information selection is at the core of decision making. Yet, an answer to the question as to how individual elite politicians go about selecting information is lacking. We know that they unavoidably do, but how exactly they perform this selection t...