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作者：Graziano, Paolo Roberto
摘要：The article deals with the differential domestic employment policy adaptation to the European Employment Strategy that occurred over the past years in two European countries-Italy and France. Building on the Europeanization and welfare state change literature, the contribution operationalizes the goodness of fit hypothesis and develops a policy structure approach for the analysis of domestic employment policy change. The main argument is that domestic adaptation to the European Union depends p...
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作者：Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle
作者单位：University of Konstanz; University of Bern
摘要：This article investigates whether and how family policy influences the probability and intensity of mothers' labor market participation. Unlike previous studies, this contribution focuses on group-specific policy effects, thereby accounting for the fact that, theoretically, women with different resources and preferences should respond differently to given policy measures. The analyses show that varying individual characteristics indeed influence the impact family policy measures have on women'...
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作者：Wescott, Clay G.
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作者：Christensen, Jorgen Gronnegaard
作者单位：Aarhus University
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作者：de Renzio, Paolo; Masud, Harika
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Transparency in public budgeting has been a recognized principle of sound governance for a long time. Yet, reliable measures of budget transparency are hard to come by. This article introduces the Open Budget Index (OBI), a new tool based on surveys by independent researchers that compares key budget information published by governments across the world. Data from the latest survey, published in 2010 and covering 94 countries, reveal that on average, the state of budget transparency around the...
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作者：Vifell, Asa Casula; Sjogren, Ebba
作者单位：Sodertorn University; Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：Using an example from the health-care sector, we illustrate consequences of implementing knowledge-based decision making relating to the exercise of political control. The Swedish Pharmaceutical Benefits Board decides the subsidization status of prescription pharmaceuticals. Building on a study of the agency's work, we explore the effects of institutional arrangements stemming from rationalistic demands for knowledgeable and justifiable outcomes related to political structures for control. Kno...
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作者：Cristofoli, Daniela; Nasi, Greta; Turrini, Alex; Valotti, Giovanni
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Bocconi University
摘要：The traditional portrait of civil servants in Italy, as well as in most other countries, has always been one of not particularly efficient employees yet have the benefit of a secure job and can look forward to a comfortable retirement package. In order to change this image, public management reforms have largely focused on civil servants since the 1990s. However, many academics and practitioners claim some inertia in the reform implementation. In this article we aim to identify the determinant...
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作者：Enroth, Henrik
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作者：Heilmann, Sebastian; Schulte-Kulkmann, Nicole
作者单位：Universitat Trier
摘要：This article examines the contribution of policy diffusion to create a regulatory system against money laundering in China. A two-level analysis of transnational interactions and domestic law making shows how Communist Party prerogatives shape the insertion of multilateral norms into the legal system. In a contentious process of local accommodation, transnationally engaged technocratic bodies, turf-conscious bureaucracies, and powerful party organs struggle to reconcile the goals of promoting ...
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作者：Landwehr, Claudia; Boehm, Katharina
作者单位：Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
摘要：The delegation of decision-making powers to nonmajoritarian, independent agencies has become a significant phenomenon in more and more policy areas. One of these is the health-care sector, where decisions on the range of services covered within public systems have, in most developed countries, been delegated to specialized bodies. This article offers an analytical framework that seeks to grasp the empirical variety and complexity of delegative processes and appointed institutions. The framewor...
