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作者：Greer, Robert A.; Moldogaziev, Tima T.; Scott, Ryan P.; Scott, Tyler A.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Bush School of Government & Public Service; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Local governments consider a wide range of policies to increase resilience in the face of myriad risks and employ a variety of tactics to communicate about these policies to external actors. An important platform to signal resilience as a policy priority is through the budget process wherein local communities decide who gets what, when, and how. Using computational text mining techniques, we assess how county governments in California signal efforts toward resilience in their budgets during th...
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作者：Park, Joohyung; Favero, Nathan
作者单位：American University
摘要：Despite burgeoning research on representative bureaucracy theory, there is limited examination of how environmental contexts shape the manner in which the demographic makeup of a bureaucracy is linked to distributional bureaucratic outcomes. Scholars in the field of social psychology, however, have suggested that community-level variation in the pervasiveness of biases against particular social groups helps to explain inequitable outcomes in such diverse settings as education, policing, and he...
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作者：Emrich, Colin
作者单位：Gwynedd Mercy University
摘要：Do governmental institutions constrain state actors? I investigate this question by examining the relationship between the design of state legislative fiscal offices and the health of state budgets. These budgetary bodies serve a supporting role for legislatures, designed to advance sound fiscal policy and sustainable public finance. With an original data set encompassing all state legislative budgetary bodies from 1963 to 2014, I estimate the causal effects of nonpartisan fiscal offices on bu...
