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作者：Rimkute, Dovile
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：Organizational-reputation literature has advanced our understanding about the U.S. regulatory state and its agencies. However, we lack contributions on what a reputational account can add to our knowledge about the European regulatory state, the strategic behavior of supranational agencies, and their endeavors to legitimize themselves in a multilevel political system. We know little of how reputation-management strategies vary across EU agencies and why. The study offers the very first mapping...
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作者：Boruvka, Elise; Perry, James L.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：New public management (NPM) has been the focus of research and reform practices in countries globally since the late 1970s. This article looks at NPM in historical perspective with particular attention to understanding the evolution of public motivational practices. Three different eras and motivational models common in OECD countries are discussed-the bureaucratic model, the NPM model, and the new public service model. This long-linked historical perspective highlights the interplay between a...
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作者：Albalate, Daniel; Bel, Germa
作者单位：University of Barcelona
摘要：Several countries have experienced lengthy periods of government formation deadlock in recent years, as they have sought to form a new government. This study examines whether government formation deadlocks damage a country's economy. To do so, we analyze the case of Belgium, which took a record 541 days to create a post-election government, following the June 2010 federal elections. Employing the synthetic control method, our results show that the Belgium economy did not suffer an economic tol...
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作者：Vantaggiato, Francesca Pia
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of East Anglia
摘要：The European Union and the United States are paradigmatic examples of multilevel governance systems that are also regulatory states. In both settings, informal networks of regulators preceded and existed alongside supranational (federal) regulatory agencies. The literature understood their rationale as preparatory to the creation of higher level agencies. This approach, however, cannot explain why informal regulatory networks still exist, years after the establishment of higher level agencies....
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作者：Wassum, Moritz; De Francesco, Fabrizio
作者单位：University of Strathclyde
摘要：This article explains variation in the autonomy in the range of activities that European regulators perform. By focusing on 102 regulators of four network sectors (electricity, gas, telecom, and railways), we test for functional and institutional explanations. The findings indicate that the inclusion of institutional factors matters for our understanding of recent changes in the governance of European network sectors. Reforms toward the independent agency form of governance and the range of co...
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作者：Reardon, Louise
作者单位：University of Birmingham
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作者：Zhang, Yuxi
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Previous research has attributed the delayed welfare development in China to the government's traditional obsession with GDP growth target as the principal criteria for cadre promotion. Yet why has health-care provision significantly expanded since the 2000s? This article argues that as central policies adjusted to incorporate health care as a priority, the cadre assessment system subsequently made it a hard target, and thus the competition for office has compelled local cadres to implement he...
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作者：Stec, Izabella Barati
作者单位：ESSCA School of Management
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作者：Hanegraaff, Marcel; Vergauwen, Jorik; Beyers, Jan
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; University of Antwerp
摘要：The past decades have been characterized by a growing number of nonstate actors (NSAs) involved in global governance. However, despite this growth, only a small number of NSAs have been able to maintain a prolonged global presence over a substantial period of time. To explain why some NSAs are more active, we rely on resource dependence theory. We demonstrate that sustained advocacy over time can be explained by a density dependence mechanism, namely the more NSAs mobilize, the lower the chanc...
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作者：Krause, George A.; Jin, Roger Qiyuan
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; California State University System; California State University Dominguez Hills
摘要：The landmark U.S. Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 (BAA) instituted a series of administrative reforms that proponents claimed would improve budgetary control, stability, and coherence. We maintain that the compatibility of governance structures between agency and system levels is critical for understanding why these administrative centralization efforts were successful in achieving these aims for some federal agencies but not others. The BAA reforms impact on budgetary outcomes is evaluated ...
