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作者：Carbone, Giovanni; Memoli, Vincenzo
作者单位：University of Milan; University of Catania
摘要：The established view in political science is that a sound and functioning state has to be in place before democracy can be introduced. State first, and then democracy. While acknowledging the existence of a basic state infrastructure as a necessary starting point, we examine the possibility that democratization itself may play an important role in the subsequent development and consolidation of the state. We do this by addressing the major conceptual and methodological shortcomings of existing...
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作者：Mcloughlin, Claire
作者单位：University of Birmingham
摘要：Received wisdom holds that the provision of vital public services necessarily improves the legitimacy of a fragile or conflict-affected state. In practice, however, the relationship between a state's performance in delivering services and its degree of legitimacy is nonlinear. Specifically, this relationship is conditioned by expectations of what the state should provide, subjective assessments of impartiality and distributive justice, the relational aspects of provision, how easy it is to att...
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作者：Camba, Alvin Almendrala
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
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作者：Baekgaard, Martin; Blom-Hansen, Jens; Serritzlew, Soren
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：For three decades, the politics matters literature has found that political ideology is an important explanation of public policy. However, this literature systematically fails to include the influence of the bureaucracy. In fact, it is almost impossible to identify a single study in this literature that controls for the influence of the permanent bureaucracy. In this article, we investigate whether politics still matters when bureaucratic preferences are taken into account. We do this in a si...
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作者：Wescott, Clay G.
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作者：Grube, Dennis
作者单位：Griffith University
摘要：Contemporary public service leaders are no longer the anonymous mandarins of Westminster folklore. Whether giving public speeches to outside organizations or communicating directly with the media, senior public servants are emerging from anonymity to become public actors in their own right. This article undertakes a comparative study across four Westminster jurisdictionsAustralia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdomto examine the formal rules and guidelines that apply to public servant...
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作者：Broome, Andre
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：This article contributes to the literature on the dynamics of change and continuity in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) policy paradigm. The IMF embarked on a process of streamlining conditionality during the 2000s, but many observers have argued that the IMF's policy paradigm from the 1990s remains intact. This article examines whether the scope of the IMF's policy advice to borrowers during the Great Recession narrowed in comparison to its advice to borrowers during the heyday of th...
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作者：Hasan, Nafis
作者单位：Azim Premji Foundation; Azim Premji University Bengaluru
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作者：Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore
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作者：Quah, Jon S. T.
