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作者：Stivers, Camilla
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University
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作者：Raitasuo, Santtu; Ylonen, Matti
作者单位：University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki; Tallinn University of Technology
摘要：Social scientists have neglected the ways in which the consultancy assignments of legal scholars mediate private interests, even though their opinions provide important guidance in legal proceedings. Through a case study from Finland, we document a process where private tax advisory firms utilize their access to academic forums to defend their clients' interests. With further evidence on related dependencies, we trace a twofold process that amplifies the voice of tax advisors and suppresses pu...
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作者：van Der Voet, Joris
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：This study investigates how the negative economic prospects of the COVID-19 pandemic affect local government politicians' policy preferences in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Spain. The study examines to what extent politicians prefer increasing the role of government (directive state), transferring public tasks to private sector organizations (hollow state), transferring public tasks to third sector organizations (communitarian state), or downsizing and reducing the rol...
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作者：Turner, Simon; Wright, John S. F.
作者单位：Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); University of Technology Sydney
摘要：Corporatization, the conversion of state-owned enterprises into semi-autonomous, legally independent entities, has gained in popularity internationally since the 1980s. This review suggests that usage of the term has become entangled with other definitions of corporatization, and other organizational reforms associated with new public management, and appears consequently to have lost its distinctiveness in many contemporary studies of corporatization. Through a scoping review of literature on ...
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作者：Sturdy, Andrew J.; Kirkpatrick, Ian; Reguera, Nuria; Blanco-Oliver, Antonio; Veronesi, Gianluca
作者单位：University of Bristol; University of York - UK; University of Sevilla
摘要：The growing use of external management consultancy services by public sector organizations has generated controversy. Some claim that users have become overreliant on, or even addicted to, this source of knowledge. However, our understanding of this phenomenon and the precise nature of its risks is underdeveloped. In this article, we address these concerns by focusing on whether using consulting services inflates future demand and on its consequences for efficiency. This is examined in the con...
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作者：McDonald, Bruce D., III
作者单位：North Carolina State University
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作者：Broome, Andre
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：This article explores how for-profit consultancies mediate knowledge about global benchmarks in developing countries. Drawing on the case of the Ease of Doing Business rankings, published annually by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation between 2005 and 2019, it examines the role consultancies play as knowledge brokers connecting global benchmarks produced by intergovernmental organizations to regulatory reform programs undertaken by national public administrations. The art...
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作者：Crepaz, Michele; Kneafsey, Liam
作者单位：Queens University Belfast; Trinity College Dublin
摘要：Transparency in public institutions is relevant only in so far as the disclosed information is useful for the stakeholders who access it. Hence, we ask: what do users do with the information they obtain through transparency laws? Despite the growing interest in transparency research, the ways transparency portals are used to gather information remain strikingly understudied. We study the use of proactively and reactively disclosed information under four different transparency laws. Data are co...
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作者：Du, Juan; Yi, Hongtao
作者单位：Tsinghua University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Disentangling the relationship between economic development and environmental protection has attracted much attention from public administration scholars. While traditionally scholars approach the relationship from either a substitutive or a complementary perspective, we offer a nuanced perspective by examining how the target-setting on economic growth shapes environmental performance. This article proposes an explanation for the impacts of gross domestic product growth targets on environmenta...
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作者：Xiong, Wei; Zhong, Ninghua; Wang, Feng; Zhang, Muyang; Chen, Bin
作者单位：Tongji University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); City University of New York (CUNY) System
摘要：The New Public Management (NPM) has achieved many successes in public service delivery, but practitioners frequently observed failures in developing and transitional economies. For instance, China's public-private partnerships (PPP) since 2014 have failed to transfer risks to the private sector, to involve private skills and expertise, and to reduce local government's debt. This article claims that PPP failures in China are associated with the contractual type of nonconcessions and the contrac...
