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• Centralization, access, and influence: The Reagan administration and the semiconductor industry's trade complaints AI翻译
  作者：Cortell, AP
  摘要：This article explores how the relative centralization of decisionmaking authority can affect a societal group's ability to achieve its interests. It examines the LIS semiconductor industry's efforts to persuade the Reagan administration to press Japan on its import barriers and its firms' trade practices. I find that the industry's eventual success was facilitated by an institutional change that centralized the structure of decisionmaking authority. Centralization proved more favourable to the...
• Central audit institutions and performance auditing: A comparative analysis of organizational strategies in the OECD AI翻译
  作者：Barzelay, M
  摘要：The New Public Management supplies a rationale for broadening the mandate of external audit institutions to encompass performance auditing. This article examines conceptual, empirical, and managerial issues raised by external performance auditing. Conceptually, performance auditing is a misnomer for a class of mainly evaluative review activities. Empirically, OECD countries vary in terms of the specific types of performance audits conducted by their principal external audit bodies. Explaining ...
• Understanding ripple effects: The cross-national adoption of policy instruments for bureaucratic accountability AI翻译
  作者：Bennett, CJ
  摘要：This article examines different explanations for the cross-national diffusion of three recent innovations in bureaucratic accountability-the institution of the ombudsman, freedom of information legislation and data protection (information privacy) law. The first two explanations a-re based on the assumption that these innovations are by-products of modernization, either the growth of the state or democratization. The third assumes that policy is shaped through processes of international commun...
• Does European community regional policy empower the regions? AI翻译
  作者：Smyrl, ME
  作者单位：College of the Holy Cross
  摘要：A central goal of the 1980s reforms gf the European Community's regional development policy was to contribute to an increase in the discretionary authority of sub-national decision-makers in the Community's member states. This article assesses the degree to which this goal was attained through comparative studies of selected French and Italian regions. It concludes that only in those regions in which timely policy entrepreneurship on the part of regional-level elected leaders coincided with th...