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作者：Zeitlin, Jonathan; Bokhorst, David; Eihmanis, Edgars
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; European University Institute; Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; University of Tartu
摘要：The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic marks an important departure in European Union (EU) governance, as it introduces an innovative demand-driven, performance-based model aimed at overcoming the limitations of past policies seeking to promote national reforms. In this study, we set out the theoretical assumptions underlying the RRF governance model, and assess its practical effectiveness and legitimacy by analyzing the drafting, implementation...
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作者：Yackee, Jason Webb; Yackee, Susan Webb
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Scholars of the US regulatory process routinely assert that rulemaking is ossified-that it has become so encumbered with procedural constraints that it is difficult for agencies to issue socially desirable regulations. Yet, this claim has rarely been subject to empirical testing, and this is particularly true at the sub-federal (i.e., US state) level. But the same factors that allegedly cause ossification in federal agencies also exist in the states. Using original survey data from 1460 agency...
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作者：Steinebach, Yves; Knill, Christoph; Casula, Mattia
作者单位：University of Oslo; University of Munich; University of Bologna
摘要：In this Special Issue titled Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation, we present a collection of articles examining the relationship between the policy growth and policy implementation. The issue is organized around three key themes: changes, challenges, and chances. In the changes section, we feature scholarly work that investigates how policy growth influences the evolution of implementation structures and practices. The challenges section offers analyses on how the increasing...
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作者：Lenz, Alexa; Steinebach, Yves; Casula, Mattia
作者单位：University of Munich; Zeppelin University; University of Oslo; University of Bologna
摘要：Bureaucratic overburdening has emerged as an important theme in public policy and administration research. The concept signifies a state where public administrators are overwhelmed with more tasks and responsibilities than they can effectively handle. Researchers attribute this phenomenon to several key factors, such as an increasing assault on the public sector, a growing volume of policies to enforce, and external shocks. These studies converge on the perception that the public sector's capa...
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作者：Dobbins, Michael; Labanino, Rafael
作者单位：University of Konstanz; Nuertingen-Geislingen University (NGU); BOKU University
摘要：The decline in democratic quality and the increasing electoral popularity of illiberal populist parties are among the most notable global phenomena in the past 20 years. This article builds a bridge between the growing body of political science literature addressing how democratic backsliding impacts linkages between governments and organized interests and the public administration literature exploring how illiberal populists reshape the bureaucracy. Focusing on regulatory agencies in four pos...
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作者：Heinzel, Mirko; Reinsberg, Bernhard; Zaccaria, Giuseppe
作者单位：Maastricht University; University of Glasgow
摘要：Scholarship on the administration of international organizations (IOs) has extensively discussed how autonomy influences their performance. While some argue that autonomy increases performance through greater adaptability, others warn that it may increase the risk of agency slack. Authors typically distinguish between three types of performance: output, outcome, and impact performance. We focus on core funding as a key source of IO autonomy and argue that projects with more core funding show d...
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作者：Helleiner, Eric; Dileo, Monica; van't Klooster, Jens
作者单位：University of Waterloo; University of Waterloo; Hertie School; University of Amsterdam
摘要：Why did a group of eight central bankers and financial supervisors from across the globe create a Network for Greening the Financial System in 2017? Why did they design this network as they did? The founders were an uncommon coalition, led by French financial authorities working closely with their Dutch, British, and Chinese counterparts, and backed by others from Germany, Mexico, Singapore, and Sweden. They were engaged in an unusual act of competitive regime creation at a moment when the Uni...
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作者：Hadorn, Susanne; Sager, Fritz
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：Cooperative forms of policy implementation bear the promise of being an answer to the policy delivery challenge resulting from policy growth, with the quality of network management often rated as a key success factor. The positive relationship between network management and performance in networks, however, is primarily supported by theoretical reasoning rather than empirical evidence. The present study empirically investigates this relationship in the context of rapid policy growth resulting ...
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作者：Haag, Maximilian; Hurka, Steffen; Kaplaner, Constantin
作者单位：University of Munich; University of Munich
摘要：This study examines the relationship between the complexity of EU directives and their successful implementation at the national level. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, we propose a comprehensive framework considering structural, linguistic, and relational dimensions of policy complexity. We argue that policy complexity entails higher transaction costs, hindering effective implementation. Using a novel dataset covering roughly 1000 directives from 1994 to 2022, we find strong evidence of po...
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作者：Alston, Eric
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：In large and complex human groups, social rules reduce individuals' uncertainty about their own choice set, including through these rules' simultaneous influence on the choice set of other individuals. But uncertainty varies as to the extent to which it is knowable and quantifiable ex ante. Therefore, different classes of social rules deal with the future uncertainty of individuals' conduct in structurally distinct ways, with institutions and norms being the hallmark example of this distinctio...
