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• Comparing ministerial advisers across politicization settings: Still hiding in the shadows? AI翻译
  作者：Staronova, Katarina; Rybar, Marek
  作者单位：Comenius University Bratislava; Masaryk University
  摘要：The article examines the proposition that the characteristics of ministerial advisers are shaped by specific settings of the politicization of ministerial administration. Four types of politicization settings are identified, resulting from variation in the scope of formal political appointments and appointments into bureaucracy. Using data from an original expert survey and semi-structured expert interviews, the contribution analyses eleven cases from Central and Eastern Europe. It documents t...
• Power concentration and bottom-up information flow: Evidence from Chinese municipal congresses AI翻译
  作者：Yang, Wenhui
  作者单位：Peking University; Peking University
  摘要：Power concentration may impede bottom-up information flow. This article argues that strong ruling party control may facilitate the power concentration of ruling elites, which breeds reticence and impedes bottom-up information flow. Using Chinese municipal congresses as a case, I establish that strong ruling party control significantly reduces the number of policy proposals, suggestions, and criticisms from legislators. The reduction effect of ruling party control on upward information is more ...
• Localized bargaining: The political economy of China's high-speed railway program AI翻译
  作者：Wang, Erik H.
  作者单位：Australian National University
• The godfather provides: Enduring corruption and organizational hierarchy in the Kenyan police service AI翻译
  作者：Mutahi, Njoroge; Micheni, Makena; Lake, Milli
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：Despite government commitments to mitigate corruption and strengthen mechanisms of accountability in state security sectors, reform efforts frequently fail to curb illegal practices by state agents. Scholars offer explanations that range from deeply embedded societal norms of appropriate behavior to rational accounts emphasizing the individualized benefits corruption can offer. Using a case study of the Service Standing Orders in Kenya's National Police Service however, we build on the work of...
• The chemical framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth policy processes AI翻译
  作者：Berut, Chloe
  摘要：The aim of this article is to present a new chemical framework, through which heterogeneous observations on public policy-making can be systematically interpreted. This chemical framework is based on a combination of policy stages and John W. Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework. This framework has three points of potential analytical leverage, which are identified in this article: the conceptualisation of temporal triggers that go beyond agenda-setting, the opportunity to conduct holistic ana...
• Digital intermediaries, market competition, and citizen-state interactions AI翻译
  作者：Agnihotri, Anustubh
  作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
  摘要：Can market competition between intermediaries improve the quality of citizen-state interactions? I test this question in the context of a public-private partnership (PPP) policy that created a network of digital intermediaries - individuals authorized by the state to submit online applications on behalf of citizens. I use the overtime and staggered expansion of the intermediary network to identify the relationship between greater competition among digital intermediaries for the share of citize...
• Does the cradle of power exist? Sequence analysis of top bureaucrats' career trajectories AI翻译
  作者：Trangbaek, Amalie
  作者单位：Aarhus University
  摘要：Top bureaucrats are the nexus between politics and administration. Besides being the chief operating officer of the ministry, they are technical experts and political advisors to the minister. This makes them central actors in bureaucratic studies. Despite their powerful position, few have studied their path to power. Utilizing sequence analysis, I analyze the career trajectories of permanent secretaries, providing a rich measure of career paths. Denmark is used as a case of a European parliam...
• Gender system and corruption: Patriarchy as a predictor of fairness AI翻译
  作者：Ottervik, Mattias; Su, Zheng
  作者单位：Shandong University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  摘要：This article tests gender system as a mediator in the relationship between gender and corruption. Using data from World Values Survey we find a robust, significant link between acceptance of patriarchy and acceptance of corruption. We also find a significant link between acceptance of male superiority and acceptance of corruption. In the relationship between gender and attitudes toward corruption, gender system is a consistently statistically significant predictor of acceptance of corruption w...
• Separation of powers, opposition strength, and chief executives' strategy AI翻译
  作者：Lee, Don S.; Magyar, Zsuzsanna B.
  作者单位：Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); University of Lucerne
  摘要：One of the main questions about presidential democracies is to what extent the legislature influences executive governance. However, less well-known in this literature is the influence of opposition parties in policy-making and government formation processes. We argue that, in multiparty presidential governments, more concentrated opposition forces in the legislature, as opposed to more fragmented, lead to higher government spending and greater chances of coalition formation. Facing more unite...
• Can impact assessments tame legislative drift? Event history analysis of modifications of laws across Europe AI翻译
  作者：Brenner, Dominik; Fazekas, Mihaly
  摘要：Laws should endure and change only if assumed benefits don't materialize over time. Yet frequent modifications of laws shortly after their enactment distort this compromise between stability and change. While, Impact Assessments (IAs) are designed to improve the quality of legislation, we know little about IAs' impact on legal stability post-enactment. We fill this gap by analysing whether the ex-ante application of IAs influences the incidence and frequency of legal modifications. The analysi...