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作者：Svensen, Eric Paul
作者单位：Texas State University System; Sam Houston State University
摘要：Over the past few decades, scholars have developed a rich research record on the causes and consequences of low presidential approval ratings. While this literature has provided valuable insight on presidential approval, little attention is paid to how agency failures also impact approval. In this article, I argue this understudied topic can provide additional leverage to help understand when public trust in the president is eroded. Using Markov Regime switching models of weekly approval ratin...
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作者：Cammett, Melani; Sasmaz, Aytug
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：In many developing countries, non-state actors, including those with religious or political affiliations, provide basic social services. Do politicized ethnoreligious divisions shape citizen choices of providers? Does service quality vary when patients visit ingroup or outgroup facilities? Building on studies of the diversity deficit and on outgroup generosity, we focus on how the relationship between frontline service providers and citizens affects the quality of services. Among facilities ru...
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作者：Finger, Leslie K.; Lastra-Anadon, Carlos X.
作者单位：University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton; IE University
摘要：Many public services in the United States are administered through non-state actors, many of which are nonprofits with broad social missions. Some scholars show that contracting these organizations can compromise their broader goals and political activities, while others find that such arrangements empower the organizations to engage in advocacy and influence policy. We argue that not only can contracting strengthen nonprofits' capacities to engage in politics and advance their missions, but i...
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作者：Zhang, Youlang; Shao, Zijie
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Renmin University of China; Communication University of China
摘要：Although governments frequently contract nonprofit organizations (NPOs) to provide public services, little is known about why civil servants are more willing to direct funding to some NPOs than to others. Based on previous research on government funding for NPOs, this study proposes a theoretical framework that combines NPOs' internal and external management strategies to explain civil servants' preferences for funding specific NPOs. On the basis of an original conjoint experiment of 1206 civi...
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作者：Costa-Font, Joan; Parmar, Divya
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; King's College London
摘要：Health care decisions in many low-income countries often require a close political agency relationship between healthcare decision makers and constituents. This is especially the case for maternal and child care as well as preventative interventions when resources are scarce. This article examines the effect of the introduction of the National Rural Health Mission in India, introducing Village Health, Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNC), a self-governance mechanism to strengthen the po...
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作者：Andersen, Lotte Bogh
作者单位：Aarhus University
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作者：Johansson, Markus
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
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作者：Perera, Isabel M.
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：This article proposes that the internal political organization of an interest group can shape its policy agenda. In doing so, it recommends that public policy research draw on scholarship on comparative political institutions to identify and theorize how alternative organizational rules, structures, and mechanisms can shape preference formation and expression. For example, confederal interest groups can amplify minority voices, whereas majoritarian groups can silence them. Contrasting cases of...
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作者：Salazar-Morales, Diego Alonso
作者单位：Hertie School
摘要：This article, building on the emerging theoretical corpus of reputation theory provides an alternative explanation about how successful policies are obtained in contexts of bureaucratic weakness and volatile politics. The argument is that politicians choose to intervene in delivering successful policies based on how contributable such policies are to construct their political reputations. The findings suggest that in both countries, less tenured politicians face higher incentives to build thei...
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作者：Javadi, Mahmoud
作者单位：European University Institute
