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作者：Bouckaert, Geert
作者单位：KU Leuven
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作者：Christensen, Tom
作者单位：University of Oslo
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作者：Davidescu, Simona; Hiteva, Ralitsa; Maltby, Tomas
作者单位：ESSCA School of Management; University of York - UK; University of Sussex; University of London; King's College London
摘要：This article examines renewable energy policy in Bulgaria and Romania (2007-17) and the reasons behind the unexpected rapid growth in renewables followed by a policy reversal. While we find strong formal compliance with EU legislation regarding targets for renewable energy, an examination of institutional change and policy dismantling in both countries finds that this was not supported by a paradigmatic policy change or a transformation of the energy system. Veto players worked to dismantle re...
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作者：Tomic, Slobodan
作者单位：University College Dublin
摘要：The article addresses the emerging debate in delegation scholarship over the role of legal independence vs. reputational activism of agency leaders, in shaping de facto independence. The study explores a transitional context, analysing the enforcement styles of Serbian and Macedonian ethics commissions. Through a qualitative analysis of the commissions' enforcement styles, and a quantitative analysis of their rhetorical patterns, the article finds that the commissions' de facto independence wa...
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作者：Conant, Lisa
作者单位：University of Denver
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作者：van Loon, Nina Mari; Jakobsen, Mads Leth
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：How frontline employees cope with perceived work pressure may be of direct influence on policy outcomes. This study contributes to the street-level bureaucracy literature in several ways. First, we study both passive client-oriented and active system-oriented coping. Second, we analyse how these coping behaviours relate to work pressure and work autonomy. Finally, this article analyses whether these relationships are conditioned by the performance regime. Using a unique set-up of hospital empl...
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作者：Schmidt, Arjen; Boersma, Kees; Groenewegen, Peter
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：When a policy sector is confronted with a relatively strong and steep decline in legitimacy, we speak of an institutional crisis. We know little about the causes or consequences of these crises. This article explores how institutional crises are managed. It focuses on the effects of management strategies observed in a case study of an institutional crisis in the Netherlands. While we found that policy elites displayed a tendency to maintain the status quo of a policy sector, we also found that...
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作者：Hannah, Adam
作者单位：University of Melbourne
摘要：Recognition that welfare states continue to change has fostered debate about the relationship between ideas and policy problems in driving governments towards reform. To move the debate forward, this article proposes a modification of Barbara Vis and Kees van Kersbergen's 'open functional approach'. It first argues that while policy problems may provide 'functional pressure' to reform, this pressure is significant only in so far as inaction would risk electoral punishment. Reform pressure is h...
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作者：Christensen, Julian
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Based on literature about motivated reasoning, this article proposes that choosing a public service provider from among competing options may bias service users in a positive direction when evaluating the performance of their chosen provider. Users are expected to defend their choice through processes of goal reprioritization, meaning that they will alter the weight they assign to given pieces of information depending on the (in)convenience of that information. This article uses nine experimen...
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作者：Vanheuverzwijn, Pierre; Crespy, Amandine
作者单位：Universite Libre de Bruxelles
摘要：The notion of ownership is well known in relation to global governance. In the realm of EU macro-economic coordination, it has become a buzzword since the revamping process of the European Semester in 2015. This article investigates how ownership by four types of domestic actors (governments, administrations, parliaments and social partners) manifests itself in the European Semester. We conceptualize three types of ownership, namely institutional, political, and cognitive. Using network analys...
