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作者：Sheffer, Lior; Loewen, Peter John; Lucas, Jack
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; University of Toronto; University of Calgary
摘要：Politicians are required to make policy decisions that involve short-term and long-term tradeoffs, and existing theory largely expects election-driven myopic thinking to dominate their reasoning when they do so. Direct evidence on this is surprisingly absent, leaving open questions on whether and when politicians do support future-oriented policies, and what factors, beyond the shadow of elections, influence such choices. Responding to this gap, we report results of a multi-year survey of more...
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作者：Marciano, Reut
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Prior research on consultants in policymaking described their expanding policy involvement and impact. This research focuses on consultants' policy formulation roles and on how and why these roles vary across jurisdictions and contexts. It draws on comparative research on healthcare policy in Ontario, Canada, and Victoria, Australia. Based on analysis of contracts and expenditure data, and 59 semi-structured interviews, this research finds that consultants in Victoria are partners in formulati...
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作者：Zhang, Changdong; Dickson, Bruce
作者单位：Peking University; George Washington University
摘要：Public finance lies at the heart of politics. It shapes citizens' political attitudes and behaviors. While the expenditure side has been studied very extensively, the income side has been neglected, especially in authoritarian regimes. Taking China as an ideal case, we use a nation-wide random sample of urban residents to study how citizens under strong authoritarian states perceive their tax burdens. We find that Chinese citizens have low tax consciousness, defined as the perception of fairne...
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作者：Clerici, Paula; Demeco, Lucia; Galeano, Franco; Negri, Juan
作者单位：Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET); Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
摘要：In federal presidential democracies, discretionary transfers are often mentioned as a tool used by the national executive to build and strengthen subnational support, typically governors. Funds to local mayors, however, have been much less studied. With original data, in this study we analyze the distribution of a particular discretionary transfer (ATN) to the Argentine municipalities during two periods: 1997-2000 and 2016-2019. We show that the main driver for transfers is the mayor's politic...
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作者：Junk, Wiebke Marie; Berkhout, Joost; Crepaz, Michele; Hanegraaff, Marcel
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; University of Amsterdam; Queens University Belfast
摘要：Advocacy intelligence is a critical organizational resource fostering long-term survival and policy success. Policy-active interest groups such as non-profits, business associations and labor unions, seek to maintain their competitive advantage among peers and therefore have incentives to remain secretive about the details of their lobbying strategies and membership mobilization. We empirically evaluate this argument based on knowledge sharing interactions in 12 focus group interviews with app...
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作者：Rabinovych, Maryna; Brik, Tymofii; Darkovich, Andrii; Savisko, Myroslava; Hatsko, Valentyn; Tytiuk, Serhii; Piddubnyi, Igor
作者单位：Kyiv School of Economics; University of Agder; University of Agder
摘要：Resilience of local communities (territorial hromadas) is an increasingly salient matter in the academic and policy debate on the factors which have determined Ukraine's resilience to Russia's 2022 invasion. Building on existing literature on institutional resilience and its predictors, this article explains the ability of Ukrainian self-governed municipalities to withstand the threats to institutional stability stemming from the invasion. First, it uses an exploratory qualitative design to op...
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作者：Kern, Florian G. G.; Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede; Cordell, Rebecca
作者单位：University of Essex; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Essex
摘要：In many American Indian nations the security situation is dire. While scholars have studied how institutions shape economic development in American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) nations, the role of AIAN institutions for security and violent crime has received much less attention-despite the extensive literature highlighting the important role of effective and legitimate institutions in the long-term decline of violence. We analyze how varying types of American Indian polities and judiciary ...
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作者：Magalhaes, Pedro C.
作者单位：Universidade de Lisboa; Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-UL); Universidade de Lisboa; Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ICS-UL)
摘要：Corruption scandals and their investigation have been shown to undermine support not only for the allegedly involved public officials but also for political actors and institutions more generally. However, we know little about what happens when those investigations end up failing to result in punishments. Is citizens' trust in the legal authorities in charge of prosecuting and punishing corruption also undermined? Do those effects spill over to political actors, institutions, and even the poli...
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作者：Piotrowska, Barbara Maria
作者单位：University of London; King's College London
摘要：Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) are central to the implementation of government policies, which becomes crucial in the context of democratic backsliding. Their willingness to carry out policies developed by unprincipled principals influences the final impact of backsliding on citizens. Research on civil servants and anecdotal evidence indicate that SLBs may engage in various dissent activities when they disagree with politicians and their policies. However, the scale of this behavior depends o...
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作者：Allen, Richard; Hood, Christopher; King, Maia; McLean, Iain; Piotrowska, Barbara
