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作者：Boerzel, Tanja A.; Risse, Thomas
作者单位：Free University of Berlin
摘要：Areas of limited statehood where the state is absent or dysfunctional are rarely ungoverned or ungovernable spaces. The provision of rules and regulations, as well as of public goods and services - governance - does not necessarily depend on the existence of functioning state institutions. How can this be explained? To begin with, we identify functional equivalents to state institutions that fail to govern hierarchically. Moreover, we focus on informal institutions based on trust that are endo...
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作者：Sunstein, Cass R.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：How can we measure whether national institutions in general, and regulatory institutions in particular, are dysfunctional? A central question is whether they are helping a nation's citizens to live good lives. A full answer to that question would require a great deal of philosophical work, but it should be possible to achieve an incompletely theorized agreement on a kind of nonsectarian welfarism, emphasizing the importance of five variables: subjective well-being, longevity, health, education...
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作者：Prakash, Aseem; Potoski, Matthew
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：There is a wide-spread perception among academics and commentators that institutional dysfunction has become increasingly common in important social, political, and economics arenas. Opinion polls show a decline in trust and confidence in major actors and institutions, including inter-governmental organizations, governments, firms, NGOs, and religious organizations. For some, the core of the problem is that the hitherto well-functioning states have become less effective in aggregating and acti...
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作者：Lewallen, Jonathan; Theriault, Sean M.; Jones, Bryan D.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：The public's approval of Congress is at an all time low. The parties seem to have taken the legislative process hostage for their own electoral gain. Whereas traditional arguments about congressional dysfunction focus on polarized voting coalitions or outputs - particularly legislation - in this article we highlight congressional information processing and how it has changed in this highly partisan era. By coding congressional hearings according to the kind of information on which they focus, ...
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作者：Vining, Aidan R.; Weimer, David L.
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Policy designers seeking to harness profit-driven efficiency for public purposes are increasingly creating organizations with fractionalized property rights that distribute ownership among public and private actors. The resulting hybrids are quite diverse, including mixed enterprises, public-private partnerships, social entrepreneurship organizations, government-sponsored enterprises, and various other hybrid forms. Marrying public purposes to private sector efficiency and strategic flexibilit...
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作者：Barnett, Michael
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：A standard view is that global governance institutions require strong accountability mechanisms to perform effectively and legitimately. Yet these institutions are much better at preaching than practicing accountability. A standard explanation for this gap references interests. For various reasons, institutions and their creators would rather be less than more accountable, and they are quite content to live with the hypocrisy. This article points to an alternative possibility: the public inter...
