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作者：de Renzio, Paolo
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation
摘要：This short paper summarizes the key findings of a collaborative project looking at civic actors' role in promoting more equitable taxation across seven countries. Their examples show that effective tax advocacy usually relies on multiple strategies that engage diverse actors-from public officials and legislators to the media and broader civic coalitions. Moreover, progress depends on building robust and convincing narratives around the need for tax reform and deploying different kinds of capac...
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作者：Woodhouse, Eleanor Florence
作者单位：University of London; University College London
摘要：Privately financed infrastructure agreements (PFIAs) are increasingly being used across the globe, bringing private money into the delivery of public goods. How does introducing private actors to such a process change how we think about distributive politics? I investigate this question using both quantitative and qualitative analyses, uncovering a relationship consistent with PFIAs being used as distributive goods and exploring how the credit-claim potential of PFIAs may affect their distribu...
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作者：Hou, Linke; Liu, Mingxing; Lu, Xiaobo
作者单位：Shandong University; Peking University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Tax reduction is supposed to garner popular support, yet rural unrest sharply increased following the Chinese government's agricultural tax reform aiming to reduce peasants' tax burden. We argue that the tax reduction could undermine village elites' economic and political incentives to assist the state in implementing unpopular policies and achieving desirable outcomes. We exploit the exogeneous timing of the agricultural tax reform that abolished the agriculture tax and estimate its impact th...
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作者：Lotta, Gabriela; Tavares, Gustavo M.; Story, Joana
作者单位：Getulio Vargas Foundation; Insper
摘要：Countries are facing the deterioration of democratic institutions under a process named democratic backsliding. In this context, political attacks on public organizations become more frequent and intense. While previous studies have examined how civil servants counteract and resist political attacks, their ultimate impact on civil servants' well-being remains underexplored. To shed light on this phenomenon, we conducted an exploratory sequential mixed methods design with civil servants from Br...
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作者：Zhang, Youlang; Wang, Huan
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Renmin University of China; Communication University of China
摘要：Studies in medicine, bioscience, psychology, sociology, and public health have provided various contextual, individual, and vaccine-specific explanations for vaccine uptake. However, one significant yet often ignored fact is that vaccination could be viewed as a site of citizen-state interaction in implementing public vaccination policy. This begs the questions: What barriers create administrative burdens in vaccination? How do the experiences of administrative burdens (i.e., the learning, psy...
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作者：Koop, Christel; di Vettimo, Michele Scotto
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of Exeter
摘要：As non-majoritarian institutions are deliberately insulated from electoral pressure and ministerial hierarchy, they face an accountability deficit. This deficit can be reduced by embedding the organizations in a wider accountability landscape with multiple forums. Of particular relevance in this landscape are the news media, who may not only serve as account-holders, but can also reinforce other forms of accountability. Yet, we know little about the conditions under which the media cover non-m...
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作者：Kluser, K. Jonathan; Schmuck, David; Sieberer, Ulrich
作者单位：University of Zurich; Otto Friedrich University Bamberg
摘要：In multiparty governments, policymaking is a collaborative effort among the different incumbent parties. Often hidden by public debates about broader government policy, the necessary coordination routinely happens at the ministerial level, where ministries of different parties jointly devise viable and equitable policy solutions. However, since coordination involves substantial transaction costs, governments must carefully gauge the potential benefits. We study the political rationales that mo...
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作者：Mueller, Moritz; Fraussen, Bert
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：An agency's self-portrayal can help to protect its jurisdictional turf and strengthen its reputational uniqueness. While prior reputational studies have shown that agencies are attentive to the media and political principals, they have not assessed how inter-agency dynamics might shape their public outreach and message. This paper argues that if multiple public agencies are confronted with a shared salient issue, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, they engage in 'issue segmentation': mindful of ea...
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作者：Koskimaa, Vesa; Rapeli, Lauri; Himmelroos, Staffan
作者单位：Tampere University; Abo Akademi University; University of Helsinki
摘要：The perceived disconnect between policymaking elites and citizens has intensified demands for citizen engagement in democracies, but we know little about policymakers' attitudes towards increased citizen involvement. This study presents an in-depth, mixed-methods analysis of participatory views of politicians, public officials, and interest group representatives in Finland. We first utilize a unique survey battery presented to representative samples of policymakers (n = 675) and ordinary citiz...
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作者：Nelson, Stephen C.; Dietrich, Simone
作者单位：Northwestern University
