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作者：Askim, Jostein; Houlberg, Kurt; Klausen, Jan Erling
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：Mergers incentivize local governments to ease their fiscal policies before the merger is implemented. This incentive is powerful: it is known that local governments start easing fiscal policies even before they know for sure that a merger will occur and even if merging is what they want. Based on a study of Norwegian municipalities, this article shows that irrespective of whether local governments face certain or potential mergers, their fiscal easing is manifested primarily in budget overruns...
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作者：Yesilkagit, Kutsal; Bezes, Philippe; Fleischer, Julia
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; University of Potsdam
摘要：In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a government will cause changes in the names of ministerial units. To this end we formulate hypotheses combining the politics of structural choice and theories of portfolio allocation to examine the effects of political changes at the cabinet level on the names of intra-ministerial units. We constructed a dataset cont...
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作者：Aoki, Naomi; Elliott, Ian C.; Simon, Jeanne; Stazyk, Edmund C.
作者单位：University of Tokyo; Northumbria University; Newcastle University - UK; Universidad de Concepcion; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：Over the last 30 years significant efforts have been made to ensure that Public Administration: An International Quarterly lives up to its international title. In this review article, we highlight some of the key research articles that have been published by the journal which illustrate an international approach to the study of public administration. We show how the journal's historical inclusion of a diverse spectrum of philosophies, methodologies, theories and contexts has contributed to thi...
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作者：Alonso, Jose M.; Clifton, Judith; Diaz-Fuentes, Daniel
作者单位：Universidad de Cantabria; Cardiff University
摘要：Corporatization-arguably as important as privatization regarding public service reform-remains an under-researched topic in Public Administration. In this paper, we explore the extent to which the implementation of different types of corporatization strategies can be explained by the ideology of the ruling party in the Spanish public healthcare sector, selected for study because this sector was subject to reform, particularly, decentralization and marketization. To do so, we use count-data reg...
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作者：Tida, Benjamin
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：The behavior of account-holders has been a blind spot in the accountability literature. Relatively little is known about why account-holders prioritize certain aspects of their account-holding mandates and emphasize certain account-holding tasks over others. A reputational perspective has the potential to fill this knowledge gap. This article illustrates how reputational considerations shape the ways in which account-holders manage their account-holding roles through a critical case study of t...
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作者：Foged, Soren K.
摘要：Are local governments' resources distributed differently during low as compared to high fiscal stress? Based on a proposed theoretical framework of public budgeting, focusing on the power relations between priority setters and spending advocates, two opposing hypotheses on this question are formulated. Using regression analysis, the two hypotheses are tested on the allocation of spending in seven policy areas of all 98 Danish municipalities from 2008 to 2015, which was a period that saw both a...
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作者：Hendriks, Frank
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：This article advances our understanding of the key values for democratic-governance innovation by integrating two important, yet divergent, discourses-the one on democratic innovations, the other on governance innovations-thus capitalizing on their mutually reinforcing potential. The result is an integrative framework of core values, related normative coordinates, and key questions for improving democratic governance. The integrative values framework refines our understanding of the fundamenta...
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作者：LaFrance, Casey
作者单位：Western Illinois University
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作者：Hannah, Adam; Baekkeskov, Erik; Tubakovic, Tamara
作者单位：University of Queensland; University of Melbourne; University of Warwick
摘要：The study of ideas and crisis in public policy and administration has generated two literatures with shared interests, but often distinct approaches. In this Symposium introduction, we argue that crisis studies and the ideas school have much to learn from each other. To facilitate cross-pollination, this article reviews key insights from the two literatures with relevance across the divide. In our view, crisis studies offer important parameters that can help realize some of the ambitions expre...
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作者：Shybalkina, Iuliia
作者单位：University of Kentucky
摘要：Normative research on public participation in government related to desirable amounts and modes of participation has been flourishing. However, positive research explaining variations in real-world participation processes, while gaining momentum, is still thin and fragmented. This article aims to further the positive perspective by examining differences in participatory budgeting (PB) and the reasons for these differences in six New York City council districts based on fieldwork and secondary ...
