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作者：Cox, Robert Henry; Beland, Daniel
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Saskatchewan
摘要：This article introduces to policy studies the concept of valence, which we define as the emotional quality of an idea that makes it more or less attractive. We argue that valence explains why some ideas are more successful than others, sometimes gaining paradigmatic status. A policy idea is attractive when its valence matches the mood of a target population. Skilled policy entrepreneurs use ideas with high valence to frame policy issues and generate support for their policy proposals. The usef...
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作者：Themudo, Nuno S.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：The notion that a strong civil society helps to fight corruption has become a cornerstone of governance policy. Yet, a continuing dearth of empirical research, which tests this general proposition and probes the relevant causal mechanisms, feeds rising skepticism of current policy initiatives. This study theorizes the relationship between civil society and corruption, arguing that civil society's impact depends to a large extent on its ability to generate sufficient public pressure which, in t...
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作者：Persson, Anna; Rothstein, Bo; Teorell, Jan
作者单位：University of Gothenburg; Lund University
摘要：With an increased awareness of the detrimental effects of corruption on development, strategies to fight it are now a top priority in policy circles. Yet, in countries ridden with systemic corruption, few successes have resulted from the investment. On the basis of an interview study conducted in Kenya and Ugandatwo arguably typically thoroughly corrupt countrieswe argue that part of an explanation to why anticorruption reforms in countries plagued by widespread corruption fail is that they ar...
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作者：Hauray, Boris
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作者：Linde, Jonas; Erlingsson, Gissur O.
作者单位：University of Bergen; Linkoping University
摘要：Sweden is consistently found at the top in international indices of corruption. In recent years, however, several instances of corruption have been exposed, and surveys show that large shares of Swedish citizens harbor perceptions that public corruption is widespread. Drawing on recent surveys, two questions are asked. First, to what extent do Swedish citizens believe that corruption constitutes a serious problem? Second, how do citizens' evaluations of the extent of public corruption affect s...
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作者：Scheppele, Kim Lane
作者单位：Princeton University
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作者：Blom-Hansen, Jens
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：How can legislators derive the benefits of delegation without unduly empowering the executive? This article investigates how this dilemma is met in the European Union (EU) political system where executive power is delegated to the Commission. The argument is that the European member states have found a unique solution. They install committees of member state representatives to monitor the EU Commission, the so-called comitology committees. However, the extent to which comitology committees are...
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作者：Afonso, Alexandre; Papadopoulos, Yannis
作者单位：Max Planck Society; University of Lausanne
摘要：This article assesses whether changes in government choice for policy concertation with trade unions and employers are better explained by international or domestic factors. We compare patterns of corporatist governance in a strongly Europeanized policy domain (labor migration policy) and in a weakly Europeanized policy domain (welfare state reforms) over the last 20 years in Austria and Switzerland. We show that there is no systematic difference in patterns of concertation between the two pol...
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作者：Featherstone, Kevin; Papadimitriou, Dimitris
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Manchester
摘要：International attention has focused recently on the reform failures of Greece in the context of its European Union membership. Systemic constraints are increasingly recognized. The present article argues that attention ought also to be given to the inner workings of government at the center and their undermining of reform capacity. It explores the nature of the Greek core executive across five premierships and argues the supposed supremacy of the prime minister is something of a fallacy. In re...
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作者：Koch, Philippe
作者单位：University of Zurich
摘要：There is an oft-stated claim in political science research that public sector reforms in Western democracies are consistent with a shift from government to governance. This article challenges that claim. Based on a comparative analysis of governance reforms in Swiss metropolitan areas, the article reveals that what seems to be a shift to governance may turn out to be a path to government, however, including a change either from the local to the metropolitan level or from general-purpose author...
