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作者：Featherstone, Kevin; Papadimitriou, Dimitris
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Manchester
摘要：International attention has focused recently on the reform failures of Greece in the context of its European Union membership. Systemic constraints are increasingly recognized. The present article argues that attention ought also to be given to the inner workings of government at the center and their undermining of reform capacity. It explores the nature of the Greek core executive across five premierships and argues the supposed supremacy of the prime minister is something of a fallacy. In re...
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作者：Koch, Philippe
作者单位：University of Zurich
摘要：There is an oft-stated claim in political science research that public sector reforms in Western democracies are consistent with a shift from government to governance. This article challenges that claim. Based on a comparative analysis of governance reforms in Swiss metropolitan areas, the article reveals that what seems to be a shift to governance may turn out to be a path to government, however, including a change either from the local to the metropolitan level or from general-purpose author...
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作者：Berman, Sheri
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：In the years since Peter Hall's seminal 1993 article Policy Paradigms, Social Learning and the State appeared, the ideational research agenda has expanded enormously, to the point where it now includes everyone from constructivists to rational choice theorists. This article assesses what we have learned about the role of ideas in political life since Policy Paradigms appeared, analyzes how well social scientists have taken up the challenges and questions Policy Paradigms put forward, and discu...
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作者：Maor, Moshe; Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Raanan
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Do reputational concerns affect the duration of enforcement decisions? We analyze time to decision in warning letter processes by two enforcement divisions within the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. We find that nearly all criticism of these divisions revolves around the FDA's primary consumer protection responsibilities (i.e., underenforcement), thus questioning the validity of the FDA's unique reputation. We also found that as media coverage of t...
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作者：Germain, Randall
作者单位：Carleton University
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作者：Green, Jessica F.; Colgan, Jeff
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; American University
摘要：As global interdependence grows, states often use international organizations to achieve both domestic and foreign policy goals. One way states respond to demands for cooperation is to delegate to international organizations and private actors. In this article, we use new data spanning a century of international environmental law to understand when and why states delegate to international organizations to manage environmental problems. We find that delegation is a persistent phenomenon that fa...
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作者：Elston, Thomas
作者单位：University of Nottingham
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作者：Christensen, Johan
作者单位：European University Institute
摘要：Why did New Zealand adopt one of the most neoliberal tax systems in the world, whereas Ireland pursued a heterodox tax policy of low rates, deep deductions, and distortionary tax incentives? The diverging tax policy trajectories of these two small liberal market economies since 1980 are not well accounted for by conventional ideational, partisan, or political-institutional explanations. The article argues that the varying degree of neoliberal reform is better understood as the result of differ...
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作者：Raudla, Ringa
作者单位：Tallinn University of Technology
摘要：The goal of this article is to analyze the challenges involved in contracting for policy advice with the example of performance budgeting reform in Estonia in 2009-2011. The Estonian Ministry of Finance has sought to prepare a major change in the budgeting system by outsourcing the analytical preparation of different aspects of the reform to various private sector organizations. The case study seeks to identify the challenges and pitfalls involved in contracting for policy and management advic...
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作者：Andrews, Matt
作者单位：Harvard University
