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作者：Schnabel, Johanna; Dardanelli, Paolo
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; University of Kent
摘要：Conditional grant programs are widely used in federal systems to address the tension between decentralized policy provision and territorial equity, given constraints on constituent units' ability to raise revenues. While enhancing their financial capacity, conditional grants are often seen as reducing constituent units' policy autonomy. Against this backdrop, this article examines the actual impact conditional grants have on the capacity and autonomy of a constituent unit. We analyze key miles...
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作者：Meier, Kenneth J.; Xu, Xiaoyang
作者单位：American University
摘要：Studies of representative bureaucracy frequently reference the need for a critical mass before an underrepresented group can influence policy outputs or outcomes, but the empirical literature is modest and presents mixed findings. This article presents a theoretical exploration to illustrate how critical mass can link individual behavior to organizational contexts. By examining both active representation and symbolic representation at both the individual and organizational level and specifying...
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作者：Kalesnikaite, Vaiva; Neshkova, Milena, I; Ganapati, Sukumar
作者单位：Clemson University; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Prior research has examined the effect of e-government on corruption but has only considered perceived political corruption that differs from the actual corruption that citizens experience in their routine encounters with street-level bureaucrats. This study focuses on petty corruption and delineates the underlying mechanism through which e-government aids in curbing it. We argue that online service delivery reduces corruptibility on both sides-bureaucrats and citizens-by limiting the frequenc...
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作者：Cinar, Emre; Simms, Chris; Trott, Paul
作者单位：University of Portsmouth
摘要：The importance of involving citizens in the early stages of public sector innovation and bottom-up governance arrangements for collaboration has been proposed in a number of theoretical papers. However, to date, few empirical studies are evident in the literature. To deepen our understanding of collaborative public sector innovation, our exploratory article analyses: (i) the actors of collaboration, (ii) collaboration across the innovation stages, (iii) the perceived aspects of collaboration f...
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作者：Fleischer, Julia; Bezes, Philippe; James, Oliver; Yesilkagit, Kutsal
作者单位：University of Potsdam; Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris (Sciences Po); University of Exeter; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：The reorganization of governments is crucial for parties to express their policy preferences once they reach office. Yet these activities are not confined to the direct aftermath of general elections or to wide-ranging structural reforms. Instead, governments reorganize and adjust their machinery of government all the time. This paper aims to assess these structural choices with a particular focus at the core of the state, comparing four Western European democracies (Germany, France, the Nethe...
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作者：Alberti, Carla; Diaz-Rioseco, Diego; Visconti, Giancarlo
作者单位：Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：While women are underrepresented in politics, recent improvements in women's representation in legislative and executive bodies have spurred academic interest in the effects of electing women on a wide array of outcomes. Effects on bureaucracies, however, have received less attention. Do women mayors reform local bureaucracies differently than their men counterparts? We take advantage of rich administrative data from Chile to explore the effects of having a woman mayor on the size and gender c...
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作者：Arroja, Ricardo; Camoes, Pedro J.
作者单位：Universidade do Minho
摘要：Tax policies and public spending reflect the taking and giving powers of the government. However, when thinking about these, the taking powers of government are perceived as the most prominent. Why is the government's relationship with society seemingly asymmetric in that give and take? What leads to these perceptions? This article's starting point is instability in corporate income taxes and government expenditure arrears as two features of poor fiscal governance associated with lower corpora...
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作者：Pozsgai-Alvarez, Joseph
作者单位：University of Osaka
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作者：Fidalgo, Amanda
作者单位：State University System of Florida; New College Florida
摘要：Democracy is not an exclusively national concept, and subnational governments vary in respect for democratic norms and institutions. In subnational authoritarian enclaves, incumbents manipulate elections using fraud, corruption, institutional manipulation, or repression to maintain power. While we know a fair amount about how these authoritarian enclaves form and democratize, we know much less about how they affect the people that live in them. Does subnational democracy influence evaluations ...
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作者：Wang, Feng; Wang, Min; Yin, Haitao
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：The use of campaign-style enforcement is often criticized for its lack of long-term impacts and lack of impacts beyond campaign-focused issues. Using a mixed approach that combines regression analysis and in-depth interviews, we studied the campaigns against straw burning in several provinces of China, and found evidence to support the contrary. The campaigns did effectively reduce straw-burning activities, and more importantly, the impact appears to be long lasting and may spill over to other...
