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作者：Nowlin, Matthew C.
作者单位：College of Charleston
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作者：Vinopal, Katie
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：With the substantive effects of racial and ethnic representation well-documented in the representative bureaucracy literature, scholars have increasingly turned their attention to better understanding the causal mechanisms underlying these effects. One explored but yet unresolved issue is whether the benefits of representation stem from individual (direct)-versus organizational (indirect)-level pathways, or both. The current study advances this conversation by testing the effect of both levels...
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作者：Haeder, Simon F.; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：West Virginia University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：US presidents-working through the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)-influence administrative agencies by directing agencies to modify their regulatory policy proposals before finalization. We identify two competing hypotheses from the literature to explain this presidential intervention. First, some scholars hypothesize that presidents are more likely to change proposals when the submitting agency's political ideology differs from the president's. Second, others argue that pr...
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作者：Baekgaard, Martin; Mortensen, Peter B.; Seeberg, Henrik Bech
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：The public administration literature has been dominated by questions about how politicians can control the bureaucracy's application and implementation of laws at the back end of the policy process. Much less scholarly attention is devoted to the influence of the bureaucracy on the content and composition of the policy agenda at the front end of the process. Agenda setting is a fundamental aspect of politics, and this article examines the influence of the bureaucracy on the policy agenda and t...
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作者：Tepe, Markus; Prokop, Christine
作者单位：Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg
摘要：This study tests the effect of studying public administration and self-reported Public Service Motivation (PSM) on risk preferences. We conduct a compound lottery choice experiment with monetary rewards to measure risk behavior and a post-experiment survey to measure risk attitudes and PSM on three student subject pools. Empirical findings suggest that: First, students of public administration consider themselves more risk averse, but they do not behave more risk averse in the compound lottery...
