Governance

最新文章

• When Nature Strikes: Which Regimes Exploit Natural Disasters for Fiscal Expansion? AI翻译
  作者：Jensen, Mads Dagnis; Wang, Suen
  作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Aalborg University
  摘要：This study examines how different types of regimes use performance-based legitimation after severe natural disasters. While prior research has evaluated emergency relief, broader fiscal responses remain understudied. Drawing on legitimation theory, we argue that all regimes seek to secure legitimacy, but hybrid regimes are more likely to expand public spending to ensure their political survival. Analyzing data from 166 countries from 1960 to 2018, we find significant post-disaster fiscal expan...
• Safety in Numbers: How Transparency Can Backfire in the Fight Against Bureaucratic Corruption AI翻译
  作者：Phan, Tuan-Ngoc
  摘要：The literature on corruption, grounded in the principal-agent framework, has long promoted transparency as a tool to reduce misconduct by improving oversight. Yet standard models assume that transparency either deters wrongdoing or, at worst, has no effect-they do not account for the possibility that it could increase corruption. This paper adopts an agent-centered perspective, arguing that in settings with weak accountability, transparency influences outcomes only through its effects on burea...
• Learning From the Past? EU Industrial Policy Challenges AI翻译
  作者：Zurstrassen, Dimitri
  作者单位：Luiss Guido Carli University
  摘要：The European Union's current pursuit of strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty through industrial policy initiatives occurs amid intensifying US-China competition, prompting new policy instruments and rhetoric that many scholars interpret as fundamental transformation in EU economic governance. However, historical analysis reveals striking parallels with the 1970s-1980s, when Europe confronted US technological dominance and Japanese competition. Drawing on historical institutionalist...
• Historical Persistence of Meritocratic Selection on Citizen Compliance AI翻译
  作者：Jiang, Hanchen; Yi, Hongtao; Zhang, Dongcheng
  作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
  摘要：The persistent influence of historical bureaucratic institutions on various contemporary socio-economic outcomes is well documented, yet the extent to which these institutions shape current citizen-state interactions remains underexplored. This study focuses on the persistent effect of a cultural factor shaped by a historical meritocratic institution (ancient China's imperial examination) on citizen compliance with social distancing policies during the first wave of COVID-19 in China. Based on...
• Government Digital Surveillance in Africa AI翻译
  作者：Czuba, Karol
  作者单位：Nazarbayev University
  摘要：Deployment of digital surveillance technologies has enabled governments to acquire detailed, precise, synoptic, and-in settings where capacity and resource constraints had historically impeded state information-gathering efforts-previously inaccessible knowledge about populations. This article introduces a new typology of government digital surveillance and multiple sets of data that provide extensive evidence-the most comprehensive and systematic to date-of the deployment of digital surveilla...
• Populism and Trust in the Public Service in Canada AI翻译
  作者：Wesley, Jared J.; Boyd, Brendan
  作者单位：University of Alberta; MacEwan University
  摘要：Denigrating public servants has been a key feature of populists movements that seek to prioritize the individual and common people over establishment elites. In Canada, mainstream conservative party leaders claim Canada is broken and openly advocate for getting rid of the gatekeepers, for example, while right-wing populists often promote the dangers of the deep state. Despite these developments, we do not know whether and how populist attitudes relate to citizens' trust in the public service. ...
• E-government and citizen-state relations: Evidence from a randomized information campaign with the Botswana Unified Revenue Service AI翻译
  作者：Ziaja, Sebastian; Geray, Markus; Sebudubudu, David; von Schiller, Armin
  作者单位：Leibniz Association; Leibniz Institut fur Sozialwissenschaften (GESIS); Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University of Botswana
  摘要：E-government services are often heralded as a silver bullet for governments willing to engage more meaningfully with citizens. Evidence on the effectiveness of these measures for improving citizen-state relations is scarce, however. Most studies examining e-government focus on efficiency considerations; few consider potential effects on citizen-state relations. The present study analyses the effect of an information treatment about the availability of e-government services on citizen perceptio...
• Decentralization, local information, and effort substitution: Evidence from a subnational decentralization reform in China AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Sicheng; Yuan, Lingran; Wang, Weijie; Gong, Binlei
  作者单位：Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University; Zhejiang University; Zhejiang University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
  摘要：This study examines whether and how information asymmetry affects local governments' gaming behaviors in a decentralization reform. We contend that adequate access to local information by the principal is a prerequisite for mitigating effort substitution among agents. We examine the hypothesis based on a decentralization reform in China-the Integration of Agriculture-related Fiscal Transfer reform. We use the distance between pilot villages and the provincial capital as the measurement of loca...
• Expansion without mandates: Border and asylum agencies in European Union migration governance AI翻译
  作者：Moutselos, Michalis
  作者单位：University of Cyprus; University of Cyprus
  摘要：The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) have experienced increases in available resources and have conducted joint operations with European Union (EU) Member States in recent years. They may be regarded as examples of agencification in border protection and asylum policy, but this paper argues that agencification has proceeded without an expansion in agency mandates. Using Frontex and EASO operations in two Southern European border cou...
• Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies AI翻译
  作者：Rodland, Lise; Hansen, Vibeke Woien; Allern, Elin Haugsgjerd
  作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of Oslo
  摘要：Legislative party groups regularly get suggestions from numerous, different interest groups trying to influence policy, but individual party groups are likely to be more receptive to suggestions from groups representing some interests than others. We examine (in)equalities in legislative parties' receptiveness to interest group diversity by asking: what factors explain how (un)equally legislative parties listen to and accept suggestions from different types of interest groups? Combining intere...