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• Descriptive representation and policyrnaking authority: Evidence from women in cabinets and bureaucracies AI翻译
  作者：Whitford, Andrew B.; Wilkins, Vicky M.; Ball, Mercedes G.
  作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
  摘要：We, examine the forces for the descriptive representation of women in ministerial and subministerial positions. We offer a unified model in which portfolio allocation makes political forces for descriptive representation more important in the case of ministerial lines; in contrast, labor market forces determine the extent of descriptive representation in subministerial lines. We provide evidence for this claim from data for 72 countries and show that the advancement of women into ministerial p...
• Accountability in the privatized state AI翻译
  作者：Hodge, Graeme A.; Coghill, Ken
  作者单位：Monash University
  摘要：As well as better efficiency and improved services, privatization has also often promised improved accountability. But how does the empirical evidence on this look and what are the lessons here? This article looks at the notion of accountability and the degree to which privatizing public sector activities might improve or worsen such mechanisms. It then looks specifically at the different systems of accountability existing following three privatization activities in Victoria and compares these...
• Decentralization, local government, and the welfare state AI翻译
  作者：Sellers, Jeffrey M.; Lidstrom, Anders
  作者单位：University of Southern California; Umea University
  摘要：Despite growing interest in decentralized governance, the local government systems that comprise the most common element of decentralization around the world have received little systematic attention. This article, drawing on the first systematic index of decentralization to local government in 21 countries, demonstrates a close relation between Social Democratic welfare states and an intergovernmental infrastructure that in important respects ranks as the most decentralized among advanced ind...
• Innovation and innovators inside government: From institutions to networks AI翻译
  作者：Considine, Mark; Lewis, Jenny M.
  作者单位：University of Melbourne
  摘要：Innovation and innovators inhabit an institutional space, which is partially defined by formal positions and partially by informal networks. This article investigates the role of politicians and bureaucrats in fostering innovation inside government and provides an empirical explanation of who the innovators are, whether this is mostly an attribute of position or role, or mostly an effect of certain forms of networking. The study uses original data collected from 11 municipal governments in Aus...
• The ideal of public service: Reflections on the higher civil service in Britain AI翻译
  作者：Hunt, Michael
  作者单位：Sheffield Hallam University