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作者:Weale, Albert
作者单位:University of London; University College London
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作者:Tan, Yeling
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:This article examines the impact of transparency regulations enacted under authoritarian conditions, through a study of China's environmental transparency measures. Given China's decentralized administrative structure, environmental disclosure ends up being weakest in the most polluted cities. However, the measures have allowed nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to affect environmental governance through unusual pathways. Multinational companies (MNCs) have used NGO pollution databases to mo...
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作者:Bice, Sara; Sullivan, Helen
作者单位:University of Melbourne
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作者:Diamond, Jared
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
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作者:Moloney, Kim
作者单位:Kyung Hee University
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作者:Majumdar, Shruti
作者单位:The World Bank
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作者:Holt, Jordan; Manning, Nick
作者单位:The World Bank; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
摘要:Much has recently been written about how to best measure governance or state quality. Should we evaluate government performance by looking at what government achieves (outputs) as Robert Rotberg and Craig Boardman recently suggested? Or should we focus on measuring state capacity and bureaucratic autonomy, as Francis Fukuyama concludes? This commentary argues in support of Fukuyama's approach by using a public administration lens to disaggregate the public sector into two domains: upstream bod...
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作者:Lake, David A.; Fariss, Christopher J.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California San Diego; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要:International trusteeship is widely touted as a solution to the problem of failed states, an extreme form of limited statehood. Current theories of legitimacy and statebuilding suggest that trusteeships should produce more capable states. These theories, however, fail to take into account the self-interest and political strategies available to trustees and politicians within new states. We pose a more political model of statebuilding by the international community, the trustee, and national po...
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作者:Jacob, Suraj; Scherpereel, John A.; Adams, Melinda
作者单位:James Madison University
摘要:What role does the international diffusion of gender norms play in determining recent increases in women's political representation? We argue that norm diffusion has larger positive effects on women's cabinet representation than on women's legislative representation. We also show that within cabinets, norm diffusion affects low-prestige appointments more than high-prestige appointments. We test these arguments using an original database of ministers from 1979 to 2009 and find that the associat...
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作者:Schmidt, Patrick D.
作者单位:Macalester College