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作者：Kwon, Osung
摘要：The theory of fiscal federalism asserts that fiscal decentralization increases government effectiveness, reduces government budgets, and reduces corruption when used as a means of government reform. However, counter-arguments have been made that such an approach has diverging effects according to the level of national development. We have attempted herein to carry out an empirical analysis to examine these theories. Data from 17 developed and 17 developing states were obtained in order to cond...
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作者：O'Malley, Tom
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作者：Zahariadis, Nikolaos
作者单位：University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Birmingham
摘要：Applying a leadership-task perspective within the context of the Greek sovereign debt crisis (2009-12), the study finds that the imperatives of short-term crisis management conflict with the ability of Greek leaders to effectively implement long-term reforms. Electoral gains, crisis duration, centralized decision-making, and the degree of external actor involvement explain the choice between credible response and effective recovery. Despite beneficial effects, the activation of external stakeh...
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作者：Chappell, Louise; Waylen, Georgina
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Manchester
摘要：New Institutionalism has shown that the rules of the game' are crucial to structuring political life in terms of constraining and enabling political actors and influencing political outcomes. A limitation of this approach, however, has been its overemphasis on formal rules, with much less attention paid to how informal rules work alongside and in conjunction with formal institutions to shape actors and outcomes. This article contributes to an emerging literature that highlights the importance ...
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作者：Meijer, Albert; Boon, Wouter; Moors, Ellen
作者单位：Utrecht University; Utrecht University
摘要：The exclusive position of scientific expertise in pharmaceutical regulation is being increasingly challenged. Several authors suggest that lay knowledge could play a role in governing risks. We use the literature to develop ideal-typical regulatory arrangements with low and high lay stakeholder involvement: a technocratic and a democratic arrangement. We propose that a more technocratic arrangement will yield a better process and output performance while a more democratic arrangement will resu...
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作者：Mackay, Fiona; Rhodes, R. A. W.
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; University of Southampton
摘要：This article seeks to identify, map and understand the ways in which the everyday beliefs and practices of British central government departments embed social constructions of masculinity and femininity. It draws on observational fieldwork and repeat interviews conducted between 2002 and 2004 to analyse the everyday practices of departmental courts. We argue these courts have gendered practices and are greedy institutions'. We unpack their practices of hierarchy, civility, rationality, gendere...
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作者：Young, Kevin L.; Park, Sung Ho
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Yonsei University
摘要：The variation in national regulatory responses to the recent global financial crisis has been considerable. This article explores this variation using new data on conditions in 30 different OECD countries between 2009 and 2012. Using a mixed-method approach which employs both fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and logistic regression, we test a number of hypotheses regarding regulatory response patterns in the banking sector. Our findings suggest that while state intervention during th...
