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作者：Douglas, James W.; Szmer, John; Raudla, Ringa
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; Tallinn University of Technology
摘要：Do politicians behave opportunistically regarding their tax proposals during the election cycle, or do they maintain ideological sincerity? We examine U.S. governors' revenue proposals between the years of 1989 and 2018 to assess gubernatorial behavior during election years. We find that governors, in general, do indeed follow a political budget cycle where they request lower revenues during election years. However, this finding is largely driven by Democratic governors asking for significantl...
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作者：Zohlnhoefer, Reimut; Jathe, Jan; Engler, Fabian
作者单位：Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg
摘要：Did the financial and economic crisis (2008/2009) induce a permanent shift to more economic intervention in the advanced democracies? Three relevant theoretical perspectives are considered. First, the crisis could have led all governments to intervene more, irrespective of their partisan composition. Second, voter demand could have shifted towards more intervention due to the crisis, again inducing all governments to expand economic intervention. Third, increasing salience of economic issues c...
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作者：Lacatus, Corina
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：Global governance systems, including international organizations (IOs), turn to academic experts to achieve a variety of policy-related outcomes. Existing scholarship offers valuable insights into the two main functions of expertise for international organizations-instrumental and symbolic. I draw on network analysis to propose a third function-political instrumentalism-where IOs use experts' degree of connectedness to other actors to exert influence in politicized areas of policymaking and in...
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作者：Salgado, Rosa Sanchez; Hanegraaff, Marcel; Crepaz, Michele
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Queens University Belfast
摘要：The question of the legitimacy of government funding of interest groups as a democratic practice has been extensively discussed by scholars. On the one hand, research suggests that well-resourced interest groups are better equipped to capture European Union (EU) funds, raising some questions regarding the elitist character of the EU system of interest representation. On the other hand, EU funds have been found to address imbalances in the system of interest representation by directing funding ...
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作者：Talleraas, Cathrine
摘要：This article dives into the complex web of actors and processes of migration policy implementation in Ghana, revealing political tensions as they play out in this field. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with bureaucrats and practitioners involved in migration governance initiatives in Ghana. The study reveals how institutional power hierarchies and funding structures affect execution processes on the ground. Mapping out observations concerning implementation as it is experie...
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作者：Haesevoets, Tessa; Roets, Arne; Steyvers, Kristof; Verschuere, Bram; Wauters, Bram
作者单位：Ghent University; Ghent University; Ghent University; Ghent University; Ghent University
摘要：Policy decision-making modes in governance contexts have become increasingly participatory. This raises questions about legitimacy, and how to measure this concept. The current article advances a multifaceted measurement of perceived legitimacy of policy decision-making modes in participatory governance, capturing the three components of legitimacy (input, throughput, and output) with two items each. This six-item measure was tested in a vignette survey (total N = 4583), which was administered...
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作者：Amuso, Valentina; Baron, Ilan Zvi
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Durham University
摘要：Regulatory agencies care about their reputation, which helps sustain their authority. As innovation can introduce uncertainty in governance, delaying action or overlooking danger can negatively affect agencies' standing. Aware of these reputation risks, agencies rely on a set of methods to govern the unknown. These methods, we argue, are: (1) categorization, if the innovation is considered identical to known regulatory categories; (2) analogy, if the innovation is considered similar to known c...
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作者：Migchelbrink, Koen
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Are public sector workers more supportive of technocracy than people not employed in the public sector? Public sector workers play an important role in the functioning and safeguarding of democracy. However, because of their training as neutral and competent policy workers and implementers, it is often claimed that they hold relatively strong technocratic attitudes. In this study, we compare the support for technocracy of 35,395 public sector and non-public sector workers across 25 European co...
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作者：Gofen, Anat
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Street-level organizations (SLOs) play a key, but understudied, political role in democratic governance as they are responsible for the direct-delivery of public services that are vital to the functioning of the state. To discuss the political role of SLOs in general, this study begins by identifying four SLO roles, which are conceptualized here by distinguishing policy-sphere versus politics-sphere and SLOs-as-takers versus SLOs-as-makers. SLOs' political role in a democratic backsliding and ...
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作者：Yan, Xiaojun; Li, La
作者单位：University of Hong Kong
摘要：How do autocratic regimes use political propaganda to facilitate policy reversals of major significance? In this article, we demonstrate how the authoritarian regime in China dynamically uses propaganda to accomplish rapid discursive shifts in the context of major policy changes. Using a structural topic model for unsupervised machine learning to analyze extensive propaganda materials, we explore how the Chinese Communist Party facilitated the reversal of its One-Child Policy in 2015 by deploy...
