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作者：Song, Jiyeoun
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：This article seeks to examine the rapid rise of labor market dualism and inequality in Japan and Korea. It argues that the path-dependent trajectories of labor market and social protection reforms biased in favor of labor market insiders explain recent institutional developments in the two countries. In Japan, political coalitions between conservative policymakers, large firms, and core regular workers in reform politics consolidated labor market dualism and inequality during its protracted re...
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作者：Tummala, Krishna K.
作者单位：Kansas State University
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作者：Mortensen, Peter B.
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：This article investigates regional officials' use of blame-shifting rhetoric in times of heated public criticism of unpopular regional policy decisions. Based on a content coding of nearly 500 political accounts from elected regional officials it is shown that it's the central government's fault is the most frequently used excuse when regional officials publicly defend unpopular decisions to cut public health care. The article finds that this excuse is used more by regional leaders (mayors and...
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作者：Dressel, Bjoern; Mietzner, Marcus
摘要：This article examines the judicialization of electoral politics in Asia, an important but understudied trend, as demonstrated in Thailand and Indonesia. Though the constitutional courts in both have similar histories and institutional arrangements, their electoral interventions vary radically. We argue that the diffusion or concentration of power among post-transition elites determines whether the effect of judicial activism will be to shore up or undermine electoral governance. Where power is...
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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.; Pandey, Sanjay K.; Wright, Bradley E.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Performance management techniques are presented as control mechanisms to save money and hold bureaucrats accountable, consistent with negative agency theory assumptions of bureaucrats. We propose an alternative theory of performance management that rests on prosocial values. This theory argues that public servants who see the social impact of their work are more likely to use performance metrics. We operationalize performance information use in terms of purposeful use for internal organization...
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作者：Boswell, Christina
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
摘要：This article explores how patterns of information supply on policy problems influence political attention. It advances two central claims. First, different policy areas are associated with distinct practices in monitoring policy problems: Some produce abundant, ongoing, and reliable information, while others yield scarce, sporadic, and/or unreliable data. Second, these variations in information supply are likely to influence political attention, with information-rich areas associated with a mo...
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作者：Bauer, Michael W.
作者单位：Humboldt University of Berlin
摘要：Growth in membership and intensifying responsibilities require much greater adaptability in organizational structures and administrative arrangements at international than at national levels. The ongoing transformation toward multilevel governance seems to empower international organizations and thus shines a new spotlight on international civil servants. We know little, however, about what motivates this growing class of bureaucratic elite. Against this background, this article explores the q...
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作者：Schiavo-Campo, Salvatore
