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作者：Liu, Ning; Van Rooij, Benjamin; Lo, Carlos Wing-Hung
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Amsterdam; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：This article extends the study of regulatory enforcement on three levels. First, it separates enforcement style elements during inspections and sanction decision-making work, creating a more realistic measurement. Second, it focuses on how these elements function in a context where it is hard in practice to achieve deterrence. Third, it assesses how agents view the effectiveness of combinations of style elements in such a context. To do so, it uses survey and interview data with street-level e...
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作者：Overmans, Tom
作者单位：Utrecht University
摘要：This article examines how local policy elites conceptualize and communicate potential innovations to overcome the fiscal crisis. Four austerity frames based on cultural theory are developed: an individualist, hierarchist, egalitarian and fatalist frame. Two expectations are tested by tracing frame usage in austerity speeches by the leadership in Birmingham, Cologne and Rotterdam. First, the modest contribution of the individualist frame in NPM-sceptic Cologne is confirmed, but no evidence is f...
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作者：Mitchell, David
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：Strategic initiatives represent a government's response to constituent and organizational needs, but are only effective if properly implemented. In local governments with a council-manager form of government, city managers face a unique dilemma as compounding challenges of implementation often require them to step into leadership roles typically reserved for elected officials. For this qualitative study, 16 city managers and project leaders from US local governments were interviewed regarding ...
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作者：de Boer, Noortje; Eshuis, Jasper
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：This study investigates the extent to which inspectors perceive government transparency as impacting regulatory performance. It theorizes that when inspectors perceive an increase in transparency, they find that the perceived relational distance between themselves and their inspectees rises and this, subsequently, increases regulatory performance. The findings from a survey among Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority inspectors (n = 466) confirm that inspectors view an increas...
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作者：Forman-Rabinovici, Aliza; Sommer, Udi
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：Do policies protecting women's rights correspond with norm change at the state level or the level of international institutions? We examine this question, comparing domestic and international institutional activity in correlation with reproductive health policy change, specifically, abortion access policy. At the domestic level, we examine female legislators and policies set to encourage gender equality, namely, electoral gender quotas. In the international arena, our theory distinguishes regi...
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作者：Cooper, Christopher A.
作者单位：University of Ottawa
摘要：Recruiting civil servants on the basis of merit is believed to improve the quality of governance because it increases the bureaucracy's expertise, leads bureaucrats to develop distinct preferences and encourages them to candidly voice their opinions to others. Yet, to date, the reason why merit recruitment positively affects employee voice remains theoretically vague and has received little empirical scrutiny. This article advances this research by theoretically specifying why merit recruitmen...
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作者：Hong, Sounman; Cho, B. Shine
作者单位：Yonsei University; University of Nebraska System
摘要：This study investigates whether citizen participation in public budgeting resulted in increased redistributive outcomes when compared with bureaucratic decision-making. We focused on a specific budget item (i.e., the installation of surveillance cameras for crime prevention) and examined whether participatory budgeting yielded larger budget allocations to low-income neighbourhoods. Results indicate that such participatory budgeting results in larger budget allocations for low-income neighbourh...
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作者：Overeem, Patrick
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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作者：Assadi, Anahita; Lundin, Martin
摘要：Studies on street-level bureaucracy examine actions of frontline workers within the public sector. In this literature, there is a lack of evidence on how job tenure affects how frontline workers respond to formal steering. We contribute to prior research by studying the nationwide introduction of an assessment support tool to be used by caseworkers to assess clients' needs under the Swedish active labour market policy. We examine the potential effects of tenure on how caseworkers use this tool...
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作者：Rozenberg, Olivier
作者单位：Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po)
