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作者：Nunez, Maya Chanel; Arnzen, Cameron; Rosenstein, Hannah; Collins, Jonathan; Moffitt, Susan
作者单位：Brown University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Columbia University
摘要：What administrative and political features render spaces of political action publicly accessible? Drawing on Schattschneider's core elements of visibility and scope, we offer a framework to identify administrative features that are crucial to democratic accessibility and apply this framework to American public school board meetings. We analyze online access to school board meeting information through original data retrieved from more than 11,000 U.S. school districts. We find that the availabi...
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作者：Bolleyer, Nicole; Eick, Adam; Hadjievska, Milka Ivanovska; Grevesmuehl, Leonhard
作者单位：University of Munich; Copenhagen Business School; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Liberal democracies increasingly restrict civil society organizations (CSOs), a trend frequently linked to illiberal governments. But when do ideologically liberal governments resort to such restrictions? Linking research on state traditions, party ideology and crisis governance, we theorize factors enhancing liberal governments' propensity to adopt normatively contentious CSO restrictions. Distinguishing formal-legal restrictions on CSO voice from those on CSO existence, we show that nearly 9...
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作者：Bunea, Adriana; Lipcean, Sergiu; Rauh, Christian
作者单位：University of Bergen; University of Potsdam
摘要：What drives the quality of information that public comments on bureaucratic policymaking provide? We address this question along a text-as-data approach, develop and validate four measures capturing the multidimensional concept of information quality, and apply it to an original dataset covering more than 20,000 public comments across 1036 policy acts issued by the European Commission between 2016 and 2021. We argue that the interplay of information demand and supply and institutional factors ...
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作者：Lerusse, Amandine; van der Voet, Joris
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：Prioritization between societal issues is a necessary component of political decision-making at the helm of governance. The attention-based view explains how performance below aspirations directs political attention to a singular policy domain, but leaves unaddressed how politicians prioritize between multiple performance shortfalls across policy domains. This article provides a framework and an experimental test of situated attention that explains how politicians prioritize between simultaneo...
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作者：Caponio, Tiziana; Schiller, Maria; Talleraas, Cathrine
作者单位：University of Turin; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：This Special Issue Introduction aims to unpack current dynamics of migration politics and governance research and to put forward a holistic and integrative theoretical approach, that accounts for the bi-directionality and reciprocal influence between the political and the governance in both policymaking and policy practice on migration-related issues. We show how the articles in this Special Issue contribute to bridge two analytical tendencies in migration research - one foregrounding the poli...
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作者：Friedrich, Laurin
作者单位：University of Duisburg Essen; University of Konstanz
摘要：While pursuing a professional delivery of public services, street-level bureaucrats increasingly face intense political-ideological pressure. Yet, preceding scholars have barely explored how they manage to resist it. Addressing this gap, the paper presents a concept of the coping mechanisms street-level bureaucrats employ to shield their discretionary practices from becoming politicized. It is derived from an exploratory interview study with 33 case managers at German local jobcentres. Drawing...
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作者：Fratesi, Ugo; Livert, Felipe; Polverari, Laura; Zerbinati, Cristina
作者单位：Polytechnic University of Milan; University of Vienna; University of Padua
摘要：Despite the popularity of the concept, the measurement and the conceptualization of administrative capacity remain ambiguous, based on proxies, and overlook the local level. Conceptualization is weakened by the conflation of exogenous variables. Quantitative and qualitative perspectives are rarely reconciled, leading to fragmentation and to an overestimation of the effect of administrative capacity on policy performance. We tackle these shortcomings through the elaboration of novel indicators ...
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作者：Hyde, B. V. E.
作者单位：University of Bristol; Bangor University; University of London; University College London; Durham University
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作者：Xiao, Shiyang; Hou, Yilin; Lovely, Mary
作者单位：Zhejiang University; Syracuse University; Peterson Institute for International Economics
摘要：Effective governance requires maintaining a balance between central political control and subnational discretion. However, empirical evidence remains limited and thin on how different central control instruments may affect the level of subnational discretion. In this study, we argue that top-down inspection, as an instrument of central political control, may disrupt subnational discretion in policymaking, that is, subnational discretion repeatedly declines and then rebounds toward its initial ...
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作者：Martinsson, Joel
作者单位：Linnaeus University
摘要：In what ways, if at all, does transparency influence how politicians cooperate with interest organizations? While there are convincing normative arguments stressing the importance of transparency in politics, empirical evidence for how transparency in practice affects how politicians reason regarding cooperating with interest organizations is scarce. In this article, I address this gap by conducting a mixed method survey experiment with 1659 Swedish politicians. The findings indicate that a la...
