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作者：Stauffer, Bettina; Sager, Fritz; Kuenzler, Johanna
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：This article investigates how organizational structure, collaboration, and professional standards influence the resilience of public agencies facing adversity. It links organizational reputation and blame avoidance literature with resilience and collaboration literature. We use the case of the Swiss Child and Adult Protection Agencies (CAPA), which faced massive media attacks. We apply a qualitative research design analyzing data from interviews and participatory observations. Our findings sho...
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作者：Flom, Hernan
作者单位：Trinity College; Trinity College
摘要：Police accountability has long been deemed an essential component of democratizing reform. Reformist administrations in Latin America and other developing regions have consequently created oversight agencies to monitor police misconduct. However, the literature has not yet explored how these institutions operate and the politics that undergird them. This paper examines how police accountability institutions work in developing democracies. I focus on the police of the province of Buenos Aires, ...
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作者：Cooper, Luke; Nimer, Maissam
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Istanbul University; Istanbul University
摘要：This article analyses the migration agreements between the European Union (EU) and Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. These international policy frameworks were negotiated in tandem with one another, and all were announced in 2016. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the three countries, the article argues that they fuse humanitarian elements with a bloc-based security logic in an ad-hoc mix that lacks substantive legitimacy in the three states, rendering the frameworks unstable. The article introduces...
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作者：Meckling, Jonas; Trachtman, Samuel
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Organized business interests often seek to block public interest regulations. But whether firms oppose regulation depends on institutional context. We argue that, in federal systems, sub-national policies and politics can have a home state effect on firms' national policy preferences and the lobbying coalitions they join. State policies that force firms to absorb regulatory cost can reduce the marginal cost of national policies, leading to preference shifts. In addition, firms regulated at the...
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作者：Denny, Elaine K.; Phan, Ngoc; Romero, Diego; Wibbels, Erik
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Merced; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：There is growing affinity for audits as a tool to promote political accountability and reduce corruption. Nevertheless, knowledge about the mechanisms through which audits work remains limited. While most work on audits shows that they can work via citizen sanctions of bad performers, we emphasize that audit effects can also run through prospective incentives, that is, the desire to avoid poor audit results in the first place. We distinguish audits' impact on prospective incentives and sanctio...
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作者：Zhang, Dong
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：The resurgence of populism has presented a grave threat to democratic governance across the globe. Drawing on a cross-national dataset of 155 countries from 1960 to 2020, we leverage the leadership turnovers within countries and use fixed effects models to estimate the effect of populist leadership on corruption. We find that populist leadership is associated with a substantial increase in executive corruption, but not other types of corruption. We also provide evidence that populist leaders a...
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作者：Lotta, Gabriela; Krieger, Morgana G. Martins; Cohen, Nissim; Kirschbaum, Charles
作者单位：Universidade Federal da Bahia; University of Haifa; Insper
摘要：The literature has usually regarded street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as relatively privileged bureaucrats, neglecting an important sub-group of these civil servants: low-status SLBs. Even though they may be members of a team with other SLBs who have more status, they may suffer from intraorganizational inequality, meaning unequal access to resources and the requirement that they perform informal tasks associated with their unequal position in the organization. We examine the unique challenges l...
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作者：Hou, Rui; Fu, Diana
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Toronto
摘要：China's social credit system can be examined as a governance tool which sorts citizenship behaviors into trustworthy and untrustworthy categories as part of the regime's long-standing effort to cultivate a loyal citizenry. Based on a data set comprised of central-level official documents, national model citizen lists, and media reports, this study qualitatively examines how the Chinese state constructs good and bad citizen ideal types. Contrary to media depictions of the system as digital tota...
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作者：Mahmalat, Mounir; Maktabi, Wassim
作者单位：The World Bank
摘要：We study cartels in public infrastructure procurement and analyze the conditions under which they succeed in generating rents. We first conceptualize the interplay of the central actors of a procurement project, notably the contractor, the procurement agency, as well as the supervision and design consultants. By focusing on consultants, our framework includes important yet understudied actors in cartels that design tenders, evaluate bids, and supervise the implementation of projects. We go on ...
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作者：Drapalova, Eliska
摘要：The success of populist parties in national elections puts pressure on political leaders and their administrations, both at the central and sub-national levels. This paper explores the political tensions between two administrative levels-a central level governed by a populist party, and the city level headed by a liberal party-and the strategies populists use to challenge local political leaders and their city administrations. This paper analyzes three case studies: Prague, Warsaw, and Budapes...
