Governance

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• Pharma: Greed, lies, and the poisoning of America AI翻译
  作者：Feldman, Robin
• British think tanks after the 2008 global financial crisis AI翻译
  作者：Landry, Julien
  作者单位：University of Ottawa
• Can social welfare buy mass loyalty? AI翻译
  作者：Yang, Wenhui; Shen, Xiaoxiao
  作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Princeton University
  摘要：Do social welfare benefits enhance political legitimacy in nondemocracies? Conventional wisdom treats material interest as being the central mechanism underpinning widespread political attitudes, but social welfare is not always effective in garnering political support in nondemocracies. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that even though receiving social welfare benefits has significantly improved individuals' well-being, their political support in different levels of government...
• Kingdon's multiple streams approach in new political contexts: Consolidation, configuration, and new findings AI翻译
  作者：Shephard, Daniel D.; Ellersiek, Anne; Meuer, Johannes; Rupietta, Christian; Mayne, Ruth; Cairney, Paul
  作者单位：Columbia University; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Wuppertal; University of Stirling
  摘要：There is a need to conduct more diverse cross-case analyses in the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) literature which originated in the United States, to show how key concepts, such as a windows-of-opportunity and the role of policy entrepreneurs, manifest in different political contexts. We apply Qualitative Comparative Analysis for a cross-case analysis of a unique dataset representing 20 countries from four continents. This approach allows us to highlight distinct pathways to influencing poli...
• Blunt force regulation and bureaucratic control: Understanding China's war on pollution AI翻译
  作者：van der Kamp, Denise S.
  作者单位：City University of Hong Kong
  摘要：In the past decade, China has increasingly resorted to top-down, blunt force solutions to environmental problems; officials forcibly shutter or destroy factories to reduce pollution, at immense cost to local growth and employment. Why would a high capacity state like China resort to such a costly method of pollution control? I argue that blunt force enforcement is targeted at overcoming principal-agent problems in the bureaucracy. When institutions are too weak to hold bureaucrats accountable,...
• Fatal remedies. How dealing with policy conflict can backfire in a context of trust-erosion AI翻译
  作者：Wolf, Eva Elizabeth Anne; Dooren, Wouter Van
  作者单位：Tilburg University; University of Antwerp; University of Antwerp
  摘要：This article investigates the relationship between policy conflict and trust-erosion. It concludes that in a context of trust-erosion, practices to deal with conflict may backfire and lead to further conflict escalation. The article draws on an in-depth analysis of 32 interviews with key actors in the conflict over a contested multibillion-euro highway project in Antwerp (Belgium). It concludes that while all actors draw on the policy repertoire of managing public support to explain the confli...
• Taking the bite out of administrative burdens: How beneficiaries of a Mexican social program ease administrative burdens in street-level interactions AI翻译
  作者：Peeters, Rik; Campos, Sergio A.
  摘要：Despite taking the citizen experience of policy implementation as starting point for analysis, the literature on administrative burdens has mostly portrayed citizens as passive victims of burdens. Based on a literature review, three hypotheses are formulated regarding citizens' capacity to ease the impact of administrative burdens through behavioral adjustment, use of social and human capital, and strategic behavior. Evidence for these strategies is found in a case study of beneficiaries' beha...
• Transformative potential of participatory budgeting: Creating an ideal democracy AI翻译
  作者：de Renzio, Paolo
• Ethnic identity and local government responsiveness in Taiwan AI翻译
  作者：Newland, Sara A.; Liu, John Chung-En
  作者单位：Smith College; National Taiwan University
  摘要：Countless studies have shown that local officials are less responsive to ethnic minority citizens. Surprisingly, we find no similar pattern of discrimination by Taiwanese local officials. In an online contacting experiment, we send citizen service requests to the websites of 358 township and district chiefs, randomly varying the name of the putative citizen to reflect an indigenous or an ethnically Chinese identity and collecting data on officials' responses. We find that officials are equally...
• Elite bargains and policy priorities in authoritarian regimes: Agenda setting in China under Xi Jinping and Hu Jintao AI翻译
  作者：Chan, Kwan Nok; Lam, Wai Fung; Chen, Shaowei
  作者单位：University of Hong Kong; Hunan University
  摘要：What explains agenda outcomes in authoritarian regimes? Existing research attributes policy priorities to either the autocrat's survival needs or the co-optation of external interests. The former leaves out policy choices beyond the calculus of regime survival; and the latter elite power play that bears more immediately on government priorities than activities at the fringe. We hypothesize that officials working under autocrats who seek co-optative elite bargains are more likely to prioritize ...