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作者：Bevan, Shaun
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
摘要：The reopening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999 marked a great opportunity to create a modern government connected to the people. In spite of this, work on responsiveness and the functioning of policy-making in Scotland since devolution has not been as extensive as it could be. This is certainly true of one of the most common and numerous policy-making activities undertaken by Scotland and indeed all UK governments, the production of secondary legislation. This article uses time series cross-...
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作者：Meza, Oliver; Perez-Chiques, Elizabeth
作者单位：Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE)
摘要：This article constructs a grounded framework to study how corruption is consolidated in local governments. We focus on the fine-grained texture of corrupt practices that can only be achieved by looking at rich contextual studies. We argue that neglecting the way corruption becomes the 'rule of the game' has led to the creation of anti-corruption policies that tend to be overly reliant on formal institutions, addressing only dyadic and venal types of corruption, and have therefore proven ineffe...
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作者：Zhang, Liwei; Zhao, Ji; Dong, Weiwei
作者单位：Jilin University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) can act as policy entrepreneurs to cope with the dilemmas in policy implementation. However, there is insufficient knowledge about whether the strategies adopted by them that SLBs in the role of policy entrepreneurs are institution sensitive. In addition, there is insufficient knowledge regarding the elements that impel and support such entrepreneurial actions. Based on China's community governance, this article attempts to clarify the strategies employed by SLB...
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作者：Gofen, Anat; Lotta, Gabriela; Marchesini da Costa, Marcelo
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE); Getulio Vargas Foundation; Insper
摘要：Imposing significant challenges for both street-level implementation and policy (re)design, crises alter the environment for street-level policy entrepreneurship (SLPE), wherein street-level bureaucrats engage in policy formulation processes to secure future policy outcomes. Nevertheless, like street-level implementation in general, SLPE is studied during ordinary times but rarely during crises. Focusing on community-health workers in Brazil during the Covid-19 crisis uncovered a defensive mot...
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作者：Fowler, Luke
作者单位：Boise State University
摘要：The author examines policy implementation as an exercise in coping with ambiguity (i.e., different ways of thinking about the same issues) on the one hand and uncertainty (i.e., lack of information) on the other. Functions are how implementers figure out the best way to make a policy work in practice and processes are how organizations formalize mechanisms that make behaviours more predictable. Using programme evaluation data from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and a mixed method...
