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作者：Linos, Elizabeth
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者：Honig, Dan
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University
摘要：Using data on World Bank staff identity and field placement, this article examines the relationship between staff presence in recipient countries and aid project performance. I find that merely placing World Bank staff in developing countries has little effect on the success of development projects. Greater field decision rights are, however, associated with differential project performance. In the most fragile states, the presence of senior personnel (World Bank Country Directors) is associat...
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作者：Zahariadis, Nikolaos
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作者：Lapuente, Victor; Van de Walle, Steven
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
摘要：Have New Public Management (NPM) reforms in public organizations improved the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of public policies? NPM reforms, understood as a style of organizing public services towards the efficiency and efficacy of outputs, have been controversial. They have been accused of importing practices and norms from the private sector that could collide with core public values, such as impartiality or equity. Yet, with few exceptions, we lack systematic empiric...
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作者：Allain, Mathilde; Madariaga, Aldo
作者单位：Universidad Mayor
摘要：Chile is a country where path dependency made energy policy change extremely difficult by international standards. However, the country has recently become a renewable energy poster child thanks to a gradual process of policy change. How was this possible? This article contributes to discussions about policy change driven by ideas and to explaining the puzzling case of Chilean energy policy change. It does so by discussing the mechanism of bricolage-the recombination of old and new ideas by po...
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作者：Lapuente, Victor; Suzuki, Kohei; Van de Walle, Steven
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE); Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; KU Leuven
摘要：Public administration reforms have propagated the use of private sector management skills in the public sector, and an increased openness to managers with a private sector background. This has created a debate between those who think private sector experience improves public institutions by bringing core managerial values such as results orientation, efficiency, or openness to innovation, and those who argue that private sector experience can damage core public sector values, such as impartial...
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作者：Ademmer, Esther; Langbein, Julia; Boerzel, Tanja A.
作者单位：Leibniz Association; Institut fur Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel (IFW); University of Kiel; Free University of Berlin
摘要：This article advances our understanding of differences in hybrid stability by going beyond existing regime typologies that separate the study of political institutions from the study of economic institutions. It combines the work of Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast (NWW) on varieties of social orders with the literature on political and economic regime typologies and dynamics to understand hybrid regimes as Limited Access Orders (LAOs) that differ in the way dominant elites limi...
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作者：Seddon, Jack
作者单位：Waseda University
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作者：Fowler, Luke
作者单位：Boise State University
摘要：We apply Kingdon's multiple streams framework (MSF) to policy implementation to reflect a nested process separate from but interdependent with policymaking. Then, we generate a hypothesis concerning the conditional nature of problems, policies, and politics stream impacts on policy implementation. We test our hypotheses with state-level implementation of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, using a pooled data set of 10 years of toxic releases data. F...
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作者：Chen, Sicheng; Christensen, Tom; Ma, Liang
作者单位：Tsinghua University; University of Oslo; Renmin University of China
摘要：It is well known that public agencies are nearly immortal, but what explains their termination? This article argues that apart from conventional antecedents, political salience defined by top leaders largely shapes government agencies' life cycle. In one of the first large-N analyses of agency termination in a non-Western authoritarian regime, we used longitudinal data for the central apparatus in China from 1949 to 1976 to test this hypothesis. We specifically used Chairman Mao's written dire...
