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作者：Bunea, Adriana; Thomson, Robert
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Strathclyde
摘要：We examine how an executive's consultations with interest groups during the formative stage of the policy process affect its bargaining success during the decision-making stage after it has proposed new policies to legislative actors. Our theory sets out how consultations with interest groups strengthen the executive by bolstering its formal and informal agenda-setting power. The empirical testing ground for our theory is the European Union (EU), and in particular the consultations held by the...
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作者：Rothstein, Bo
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：Much research has argued for the importance of state's administrative capacity for development. Disregard for the rule of law and failure to get corruption under control are seen as detrimental to economic and social development. The China paradox refers to the fact that in all commonly used measures of levels of corruption and the quality of government, China is a country that scores quite low. China also lacks the Weberian model of bureaucracy that is seen as central for development. It is a...
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作者：Erce, Aitor
作者单位：Banco de Espana
摘要：The programs designed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during the Global Financial Crisis have shown more awareness of the importance of domestic demand for the prospects of economic recovery. Yet the IMF has continued to do little about the late payments made by governments to domestic creditors and suppliers. In contrast, the greater protection historically awarded by the IMF to foreign creditors has endured throughout the recent crisis. The article suggests that, in order to adequat...
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作者：Del Rosso, Stephen J.
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作者：Binderkrantz, Anne Skorkjaer; Christiansen, Peter Munk; Pedersen, Helene Helboe
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：A key issue for interest groups and policymakers is the ways through which organized interests voice their interests and influence public policy. This article combines two perspectives on interest group representation to explain patterns of interest group access to different political arenas. From a resource exchange perspective, it argues that access to different political arenas is discrete as it is determined by the match between the supply and demands of interest groups and gatekeeperspoli...
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作者：Kettl, Donald F.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Brookings Institution
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作者：Bach, Tobias; Ruffing, Eva; Yesilkagit, Kutsal
作者单位：Hertie School; Leibniz University Hannover; Utrecht University
摘要：This article examines the influence of Europeanization on the relationship between ministries and agencies at the national level. The core argument is that the differentiated nature of the international environment (with policy development often transferred to the international level and policy implementation left at the national level) transforms national agencies into policy-developing actors that shape policies without being directly influenced by their national political principals. The in...
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作者：Lee, Melissa M.; Walter-Drop, Gregor
作者单位：Stanford University; Free University of Berlin
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作者：Lam, Wai Fung; Chan, Kwan Nok
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：The punctuated equilibrium theory contends that government attention allocation is universally leptokurtic in that long periods of stability are punctuated by bursts of rapid and radical change; the empirical evidence in support of this claim is however exclusively drawn from democratic systems. The absence of electoral politics and institutional decentralization in authoritarian regimes could presumably affect institutional friction; whether and how this might pose as a qualification to the t...
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作者：Gofen, Anat; Needham, Catherine
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Birmingham
摘要：Governmental reaction to citizens' noncompliance with policy is often portrayed as a retrospective enforcement effort, in which incentives and information serve as the main mechanisms to change citizens' noncompliant behavior. This study suggests that government may adapt existing policy arrangements to encourage compliance rather than enforce implementation. Such responses recognize that noncompliance is an ongoing decision-making process rather than a single event, with scope for government ...
