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作者：Mattli, W; Büthe, T
作者单位：University of Oxford; Duke University
摘要：Over recent decades governments have increasingly delegated domestic and international regulatory functions to private-sector agents. This article examines the reasons for such delegation and how private agents differ from public ones, and then analyzes the politics of regulation post delegation. It argues that the key difference between delegation to a public agent and delegation to a private one is that in the latter case a multiple-principals problem emerges that is qualitatively different ...
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作者：Hope, KR Sr
摘要：To accomplish the objectives and the outcomes of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), African leaders have agreed, among other things, to subject their countries to peer review through the use of a unique and innovative African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). This paper analytically describes and assesses the APRM. It contends that peer review represents a sea of change in the thinking of African leaders as they seek to reverse the trend of lack of accountability, political auth...
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作者：Edelenbos, J
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Nowadays all kinds of processes of citizen involvement can be observed in practice. We label them as interactive governance in this article. Interactive governance brings with it new proto-institutions that can conflict with existing institutions of decision making. We analyze these institutional tensions in several Dutch local governments through comparative research. Our main conclusion is that there is a missing institutional link between the interactive process and the formal municipal dec...
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作者：Ziblatt, D
作者单位：Harvard University
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作者：Moynihan, DP
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：The U.S. has been described as an uninteresting laggard in comparative public management policy. The passage of the Homeland Security Act in 2002 demands a reevaluation of this label. The Act created the Department of Homeland Security, but also marked a dramatic shift toward greater public personnel flexibility, both for the new Department and the entire federal government. It is tempting to suggest that the Act is an effort to catch up with the New Public Management benchmark countries. Howe...
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作者：Kerwer, D
作者单位：Technical University of Munich
摘要：Global regulation increasingly relies on alternatives to legal rules, variously termed soft law, best-practice rules, or standards. Such voluntary best-practice rules can be highly effective. Standards influence users by virtue of the expertise on which they are based and because of their enforcement by public and private actors. Standards globally proliferate because they are more compatible with regulatory autonomy of states than binding directives. When global standards are effective, the q...
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作者：Goldmann, K
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作者：Rom, MC
作者单位：Georgetown University
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作者：Goldmann, K
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：Skeptical questions may be raised about the neo-institutionalist approach of James G. March and Johan P. Olsen, in which a logic of expected consequences is set against a logic of appropriateness: (1) it is difficult to determine what kind of constructs the so-called logics are-whether they are to be seen as perspectives, theories, or ideal types; (2) the logics, far from being mutually excluding, overlap very considerably; (3) analytical utility is debatable not only in the case of the logic ...
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作者：Sager, F
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：The article addresses the question of how different metropolitan institutional settings affect the quality of political negotiation processes and their subsequent policy decisions. Starting from the theoretical controversy of the two metropolitan reform traditions, two opposing ideal types of metropolitan government institutions are conceptualized: on the one hand the public choice model that stands for a decentralized, nonprofessional, and politically dependent administration in fragmented ur...
