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作者：Galbreath, David J.; Rose, Richard
作者单位：University of Aberdeen
摘要：In real-world bureaucratic encounters the Weberian goal of perfect impersonal administration is not completely attained and unfairness sometimes results. Theories of bias attribute unfairness to social characteristics such as income, education, ethnicity, and gender. A random theory characterizes unfairness as the result of idiosyncratic conditions that give everyone an equal probability of being treated unfairly regardless of their social characteristics. In Latvia, bias would be expected on ...
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作者：McGuinn, Patrick
作者单位：Drew University
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作者：Genieys, William; Smyrl, Marc
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Denver
摘要：This article combines the methods of institutionalist analysis and the sociology of elites to look inside the black box of the French state. We identify key groups of policymakers in the social policy sector and track both their policy preferences and the results of their efforts from the mid-1980s through the late 1990s. Our conclusion is that budgetary and ideological challenges to existing policies led to the consolidation within the Ministry of Social Affairs of what we label a programmati...
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作者：Zohlnhoefer, Reimut; Obinger, Herbert; Wolf, Frieder
作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg; University of Bremen
摘要：The 1990s have witnessed unprecedented attempts at privatizing state-owned enterprises in virtually all OECD democracies. This contribution analyzes the extent to which the partisan control of the government can account for the differences in the privatization proceeds raised by EU and OECD countries between 1990 and 2000. It turns out that privatizations are part of a process of economic liberalization in previously highly regulated economies as well as a reaction to the fiscal policy challen...
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作者：McGuinn, Patrick
作者单位：Drew University
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作者：Baeck, Hanna; Hadenius, Axel
作者单位：University of Mannheim; Lund University
摘要：In this article we probe the effect of democratization on the state's administrative capacity. Using time-series cross-section data, we find a curvilinear (J-shaped) relationship between the two traits. The effect of democracy on state capacity is negative at low values of democracy, nonexistent at median values, and strongly positive at high democracy levels. This is confirmed under demanding statistical tests. The curvilinear relationship is due, we argue, to the combined effect of two forms...
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作者：Gibson, Rachel
作者单位：University of Leicester
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作者：Eberlein, Burkard; Newman, Abraham L.
作者单位：York University - Canada; Georgetown University
摘要：This article investigates the role of transgovernmental networks of national regulators in addressing collective action problems endemic to international cooperation. In contrast to recent work on transgovernmental actors, which emphasizes such networks as alternatives to more traditional international institutions, we examine the synergistic interaction between the two. Building on the broader premise that patterns of dual delegation above and below the nation-state enhance the coordinating r...
