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作者：Tang, Shui-Yan
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Tocqueville's Democracy in America offers fundamental insights into the mutually supportive relationship between civic engagement and local self-governance, which has become more critical as the United States faces rising authoritarianism. The governance context of the United States has changed: diminished incentives for civic engagement, national partisanship swaying local public affairs, bureaucratic machinery even at the local level, more complex policy problems, increasing tensions across ...
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作者：Cisternas, Carla
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
摘要：Ad hoc commissions are well known in policymaking, yet their strategic deployment during crises remains less understood. This study examines how governments rely on expert commissions to manage blame and political risk in response to critical events. I argue that while commissions facilitate blame avoidance, their use is constrained when delegating authority to experts poses greater risks than benefits. Using logit models on longitudinal data from Chile (1990-2022), I assess how critical event...
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作者：van Luttervelt, Mads Pieter
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：Public managers at all levels of the political-administrative hierarchy take on a dual role as both principal and agent simultaneously. Because of this dual role, it is relevant for public managers to maintain credibility with their agents and remain loyal to their principals. This article develops a theory arguing that public managers can approach their dual role in a given situation utilizing a strategy based on one of four ideal types: Squires prioritize loyalty, Chieftains prioritize credi...
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作者：Sievert, Martin; Vogel, Dominik; Doring, Matthias
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：Gender imbalance in public sector hiring remains a persistent concern, yet research often overlooks how job advertisement features influence applicant self-selection. Thus, we focus on gender sorting in the public labor market, a mechanism potentially causing structural self-selection among job seekers. The study investigates how gender sorting affects applicant pools by examining gendered language and the gender of the contact person in job advertisements. We empirically test these mechanisms...
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作者：Flanagan, Coral J.; Wong, Kenneth K.
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Brown University
摘要：In politically polarized environments, presidential administrations rely on executive and administrative action to advance their social policy agendas. This article conducts a systematic review of the early Trump and Biden administration's use of unilateral action to influence PK-12 policy. We find that despite President Trump's campaign rhetoric around deregulation, both administrations employed unilateral action to influence education, although they pursued divergent policy priorities. We th...
