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作者：Lodge, Martin; Hood, Christopher
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Oxford; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article focuses on Public Service Bargains (PSBs) in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) world in an age of austerity and makes four main claims. First, both logic and recent history suggest that states can respond to financial crises in more than one way. Second, we argue that the pressures on existing PSBs are not all the same in this group of states, given observable differences in their financial vulnerability. Third, we analyze countries' differential ex...
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作者：Ornston, Darius
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This article identifies and explains two very different pathways to a knowledge economy, based on investment in training in Denmark and research in Finland. The fact that these ostensibly similar countries have pursued such divergent strategies cannot be explained using the established literature on employer organization, labor power resources, and small states. This article develops and resolves this puzzle by focusing on the interaction among organized actors. It argues that nineteenth-centu...
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作者：Wolfson, Dirk J.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：Individualism, cultural pluralism, and pressures from globalization are putting a strain on matching demand and supply of public services. Citizens want tailor-made solutions, professionals in delivery systems need degrees of freedom to customize supply, and complexity brings along information asymmetries and strategic behavior. All this calls for a new look at interactive governance. This article develops a mode of situational contracting that reveals preference at the level of the individual...
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作者：Armingeon, Klaus
作者单位：University of Bern
摘要：The national fiscal responses to the economic crisis of 2008/2009 varied considerably. Some countries reacted with a strong demand stimulus, others intended to slash public expenditures, while a third group pursued mildly expansionary policies. There are strong reasons for governments to pursue a mildly expansionary policy. If governments depart from this default strategy in favor of a significant counter-cyclical policy, they must be able to swiftly make decisions. Therefore, effective use of...
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作者：Song, Jiyeoun
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：This article seeks to examine the rapid rise of labor market dualism and inequality in Japan and Korea. It argues that the path-dependent trajectories of labor market and social protection reforms biased in favor of labor market insiders explain recent institutional developments in the two countries. In Japan, political coalitions between conservative policymakers, large firms, and core regular workers in reform politics consolidated labor market dualism and inequality during its protracted re...
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作者：Moynihan, Donald P.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Research on public service networks has identified a variety of mechanisms to foster coordination, including trust and reciprocity norms. This article argues that network actors are also driven by a desire to avoid blame. Network membership is often a political responsibility rather than a voluntary act, and members may be at least as attuned to their extra-network organizational reputation as to their intra-network reputation, creating an incentive to utilize blame avoidance strategies when f...
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作者：Batory, Agnes
作者单位：Central European University
摘要：A large number of independent anticorruption agencies (ACAs) sprung up around the world in past decades. Yet little comparative work has been done to explain the diversity of their organizational forms or development trajectories. Using insights from regulatory theory and the regulation of government literature, this article argues that the formal powers and independence ACAs are granted crucially depend on whether external and/or domestic impetuses for setting them up can counterbalance gover...
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作者：Tummala, Krishna K.
作者单位：Kansas State University
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作者：Posner, Paul; Bloendal, Jon
作者单位：George Mason University; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
摘要：The financial crisis had significant implications for the fiscal positions of OECD. As nations seek to cope with the economic contraction, budget deficits and debt have risen to near record postwar levels. As the crisis in Europe and other advanced economies has deepened, fiscal consolidation will have to be coupled, and even preceded, by actions to jump-start crippled economies. Nonetheless, when fiscal consolidation becomes necessary, nations that procrastinate by waiting for a crisis to pro...
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作者：Mortensen, Peter B.
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：This article investigates regional officials' use of blame-shifting rhetoric in times of heated public criticism of unpopular regional policy decisions. Based on a content coding of nearly 500 political accounts from elected regional officials it is shown that it's the central government's fault is the most frequently used excuse when regional officials publicly defend unpopular decisions to cut public health care. The article finds that this excuse is used more by regional leaders (mayors and...
