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作者:Holsen, Sarah
作者单位:University of London; University College London
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作者:Obeng-Odoom, Franklin
作者单位:University of Technology Sydney
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作者:Cornell, Agnes
作者单位:University of Gothenburg
摘要:The theoretical framework developed in this article suggests that high turnover rates in the public administrations of aid-recipient countries present a challenge to the implementation of democratic governance (DG) aid. If high turnover rates are due to individuals' search for better opportunities, it will affect the implementation primarily through lack of experience and shorter time horizons among civil servants. However, if high turnover rates are due to political appointment of personnel, ...
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作者:Weaver, R. Kent
作者单位:Georgetown University; Brookings Institution
摘要:Existing research on compliance failures by individuals and businesses focuses primarily on information and incentive problems. This article develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing barriers to compliance, giving particular attention to resource and autonomy barriers, heterogeneity of the target population, multiple barriers to compliance, and problems that arise when a complex and ongoing set of actions is require to be in compliance. How governments react to compliance failures is he...
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作者:van Zyl, Albert
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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:Diamond, Jared
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles