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作者：van Zyl, Albert
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作者：Licht, Jenny De Fine; Naurin, Daniel; Esaiasson, Peter; Gilljam, Mikael
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：We analyze the main rationale for public administrations and political institutions for supplying transparency, namely, that it generates legitimacy for these institutions. First, we discuss different theories of decision making from which plausible causal mechanisms that may drive a link between transparency and legitimacy may be derived. We find that the common notion of a straightforward positive correlation is naive and that transparency reforms are rather unpredictable phenomena. Second, ...
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作者：Baumgartner, Frank R.; Brouard, Sylvain; Grossman, Emiliano; Lazardeux, Sebastien G.; Moody, Jonathan
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：The concept of divided government is more complicated than scholars have allowed. In the USA, truly unified government, where the president enjoys a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate as well as a majority in the House, is rare. In France, truly unified government has been more common, but divided government has also occurred several times. Democratic governance requires that parties address important issues and they do so regardless of the patterns of institutional control. Nevertheless,...
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作者：Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard; Klemmensen, Robert; Opstrup, Niels
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：This article of top civil servants in Danish central and local government sheds new light on politicization. A survival analysis shows that since 1970, the risk that a top civil servant will be replaced has increased. There is no evidence of politicization in central government while city managers' risk of replacement increases both when a new mayor, representing another party and holding an absolute majority, and when the shift of mayor takes place within the same party. We interpret these re...
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作者：Bauhr, Monika; Grimes, Marcia
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：International organizations, policy experts, and nongovernmental organizations promote greater governmental transparency as a crucial reform to enhance accountability and curb corruption. Transparency is predicted to deter corruption in part by expanding the possibilities for public or societal accountability, that is, for citizens and citizens associations to monitor, scrutinize, and act to hold public office holders to account. Although the societal accountability mechanism linking transpare...
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作者：Flinders, Matthew
作者单位：University of Sheffield
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作者：Ornstein, Norman
作者单位：American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
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作者：Sun, Dechao
作者单位：Jilin University
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作者：Weale, Albert
作者单位：University of London; University College London
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作者：Tan, Yeling
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This article examines the impact of transparency regulations enacted under authoritarian conditions, through a study of China's environmental transparency measures. Given China's decentralized administrative structure, environmental disclosure ends up being weakest in the most polluted cities. However, the measures have allowed nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to affect environmental governance through unusual pathways. Multinational companies (MNCs) have used NGO pollution databases to mo...
