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• Representative bureaucracy, role congruence, and Kenya's gender quota AI翻译
  作者：Hassan, Mai; O'Mealia, Thomas
  作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
  摘要：This article examines the subnational determinants of descriptive representation. Agency managers may be hesitant to hire women uniformly across all localities if they perceive geographic variation in role congruence, or the degree to which a position's duties match gender roles. We expect managerial perceptions to affect hiring patterns even after the adoption of a gender quota intended to improve descriptive representation, as managers will differentially hire women to meet the quota in loca...
• When top-down meets bottom-up: Local adoption of social policy reform in China AI翻译
  作者：Huang, Xian; Kim, Sung Eun
  作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Korea University
  摘要：Authoritarian local leaders face two driving forces in social policymaking: top-down pressure from the regime and bottom-up motivations derived from local conditions. Existing studies recognize the importance of both forces, but remain unclear as to how they interact and which of them is more influential in driving local policy adoption. Focusing on two health insurance integration policies in China, we find that when the policy entails substantial class or distributive conflicts and bureaucra...
• Controlling bureaucracies in weak institutional contexts: The politics of police autonomy AI翻译
  作者：Flom, Hernan
  摘要：This article argues that political competition determines how and when elected politicians can reduce police autonomy. While bureaucratic autonomy is generally lauded in developed democracies, it can result in serious malfeasance in contexts of institutional weakness. Political incumbents may reduce police autonomy through different means and for various purposes. While some politicians seek to professionalize police forces and align them with the rule of law, others aspire to politicize polic...
• Talk is not cheap: Policy agendas, information processing, and the unusually proportional nature of European Central Bank communications policy responses AI翻译
  作者：Cross, James P.; Greene, Derek
  作者单位：University College Dublin
  摘要：This article unveils the policy agenda of the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council as found in the speeches that Governing Council Members gave between 1999 and 2018. Using a dynamic topic-modeling approached based on non-negative matrix factorization, we demonstrate how the issues discussed by ECB Governing Council members have evolved over time, and how the general punctuation hypothesis (Jones, B. D. & Baumgartner, F. R. (2005). The politics of attention: How government prioritizes...
• The political cost of public-private partnerships: Theory and evidence from Colombian infrastructure development AI翻译
  作者：Angulo Amaya, Maria Camila; Bertelli, Anthony Michael; Woodhouse, Eleanor Florence
  作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Bocconi University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; European University Institute
  摘要：Infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs) eschew traditional public management to provide distributive goods worldwide. Yet, in Colombia, the context of our study, both the promise of and voters' experience with PPPs hinder incumbent parties in elections when theories of distributive politics expect otherwise. We argue that negative experiences with PPPs introduce a sociotropic turn in individual voting: bad experience crowds out the possibility that promising a new project will improv...
• Competition and service quality: Evidence from Swedish residential care homes AI翻译
  作者：Broms, Rasmus; Dahlstrom, Carl; Nistotskaya, Marina
  作者单位：University of Gothenburg
  摘要：Against a backdrop of increased levels of marketization of welfare services in OECD countries, this article aims to shed light on the separate effects of private ownership and competition for the market on service quality. Using residential elder care homes in Sweden as our case, we leverage unique panel data of ownership and competition against a set of indicators, pertaining to the structure, process, and outcome dimensions of care quality. The main finding of our analyses is that competitio...
• Advocacy channels and political resource dependence in authoritarianism: Nongovernmental organizations and environmental policies in China AI翻译
  作者：Liu, Dongshu
  作者单位：Syracuse University
  摘要：Nongovernmental organizations are important in policy processes, but most studies supporting this argument are conducted in democracies. This article, therefore, focuses on China's environmental policy to discuss how environmental NGOs (eNGOs) conduct policy advocacy in authoritarian contexts. Based on interviews with eNGOs and scholars in China, I provide a typology to describe policy advocacy channels based on their formality and consistency and explain how channels are selected based on the...
• An organizational approach to public governance: Understanding and design AI翻译
  作者：Meier, Kenneth J.
  作者单位：American University; Cardiff University; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
• Regional Governance and Policy-Making in South America AI翻译
  作者：Zhang, Qing
  作者单位：Sichuan International Studies University
• Multilevel blame games: Blame-shifting in the European Union AI翻译
  作者：Heinkelmann-Wild, Tim; Zangl, Bernhard
  作者单位：University of Munich
  摘要：Who blames whom in multilevel blame games? Existing research focuses either on policymakers' preferences or their opportunities offered by the institutional structures in which policymakers operate. As these two strands of literature barely refer to each other, in this article we develop an integrated theoretical model of blame-shifting in multilevel governance systems and assess it empirically. In line with the first strand, we assume that policymakers have a preference for shifting blame ont...