Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions最新文献

{"title":"Venue-Making","authors":"Christian Breunig,&nbsp;K. Jonathan Klüser","doi":"10.1111/gove.12910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12910","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Venue-making describes the process of turning political issues into political institutions. Both public policy and institutionalist scholars have addressed the puzzle of when and how new political institutions arise. We draw on both perspectives, arguing that the interaction between interest groups and government ultimately determines whether an issue remains within the existing institutional setting or if a new venue is made. A repeated stag hunt game illuminates the challenges of this interaction: interest groups and government need to coordinate the move from an old to a new venue by amplifying the issue and creating new institutional structures simultaneously. Because the switch from subsystem politics to venue-making is rewarding but also risky, several mechanisms, including signaling, sustained interaction, and inspection, encourage cooperation. Our research design provides an analysis of three case studies in a fixed institutional context of unified Germany. A first case process-traces how political issues about digitalization emerged and became institutionalized. A second, off-path case shows the short-lived attempt to centralize administrative competences in the domain of energy policy underscores the crucial role of interest groups. The third case explains the ultimately futile attempt to create a new Ministry of Immigration.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"38 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143362564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction “street-level bureaucracy, populism, and democratic backsliding”","authors":"Gabriela Spanghero Lotta,&nbsp;Barbara Piotrowska,&nbsp;Nadine Raaphorst","doi":"10.1111/gove.12906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12906","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This special issue investigates the impact of populism and democratic backsliding on street-level bureaucracy (SLB) across various countries and contexts. The cooccurrence of populism and democratic erosion significantly alters public administration, particularly affecting public sector employees responsible for policy implementation. This issue explores how populist strategies differ in their application to SLBs as compared to the Civil Service, the distinctive challenges SLBs encounter due to populism and democratic backsliding, and the pressures exacerbated during crises. By examining studies from Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Czechia, Hungary, Switzerland, and the United States, the papers highlight the interplay between political pressures and frontline service delivery. The findings underscore the necessity of understanding the relationship between democratic backsliding, populism, and SLBs, proposing a research agenda to further explore these dynamics and their implications for public administration and policy implementation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"37 S1","pages":"5-19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142561692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In the eye of the storm: Street-level organizations in circumstances of democratic backsliding","authors":"Anat Gofen","doi":"10.1111/gove.12890","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gove.12890","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Street-level organizations (SLOs) play a key, but understudied, political role in democratic governance as they are responsible for the direct-delivery of public services that are vital to the functioning of the state. To discuss the political role of SLOs in general, this study begins by identifying four SLO roles, which are conceptualized here by distinguishing policy-sphere versus politics-sphere and “SLOs-as-takers” versus “SLOs-as-makers.” SLOs' political role in a democratic backsliding and populism context is specified by distinguishing whether SLOs converge to, or diverge from, illiberal policies, and distinguishing reactive and proactive responses. Each of the four responses is elaborated by referring to how SLOs both influence, and are influenced by, populism and democratic backsliding. Shifting attention to the specific context of democratic erosion allows a more nuanced distinction between policy sectors and countries, as well as identifying the ways through which public service provision facilitates or inhibits democratic backsliding.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"37 S1","pages":"153-169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.12890","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141779962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutionalized governance on organizations via norm-based policy instrument: Evidence from cleaner production in China","authors":"Junming Zhu,&nbsp;Zhen Du,&nbsp;Zhangming Ge","doi":"10.1111/gove.12881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12881","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Regulating organizations to align their private interests with public interests is important, especially for collective action problems in climate and sustainability governance. Whereas these issues are not satisfactorily addressed by conventional regulations, norms are envisioned as a promising alternative. But norm-based policy instruments are not well understood regarding their scalable effects on substantive organizational actions, given the presence of other regulations. We advance a conceptual framework, accounting for norm-based interventions' potential effects on organizational actions and their differences from conventional regulations in institutionalized governance. Based on the setting of cleaner production (CP) in China and an event study strategy, we provide empirical evidence consistent with the framework: non-regulatory, norm-based interventions led to nation-wide, significant improvement in plant-level CP; the effects were stronger via network-based diffusion and local internalization, weakened by extrinsic motivation from regulations, and associated with managerial conformity, not innovation. We estimate substantive benefits of norms in public goods provision, with the amount of water saved equivalent to the consumption of a water-scarce province in China. Our findings provide consistent explanations for norm-based instruments in real governance settings, showing them as a complement to other policies in shaping organizations and guiding proactive transitions to address global challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Working with ideas: Collective bricolage, political tests and the emergence of policy paradigms","authors":"Martin B. Carstensen,&nbsp;Nils Röper","doi":"10.1111/gove.12882","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gove.12882","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Literatures on institutional, ideational and policy change have made great strides in dynamically conceptualizing agency within structure. What continues to be insufficiently understood, however, is how actors actually work with ideas, that is, how broad policy ideas become concrete and implementable. One concept that has gained some traction in understanding actors' application of ideas is bricolage, understood as the stabilization or changing of institutions through a creative recombination of existing ideational and institutional resources. We theorize bricolage as a process of working with ideas by testing their cognitive, normative and strategic capacity. In contrast to much of the existing literature, we theorize this ideational policy entrepreneurship as collective agency. This gives greater analytical weight to how different bricoleurs work together—simultaneously and across time—to develop the ideas that come to shape policy. The empirical relevance of the theoretical argument is corroborated with an analysis of the work of bricoleurs in the paradigm shift of German pension policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.12882","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141553027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A return of economic intervention in advanced democracies after the financial and economic crisis (2008/2009)?","authors":"Reimut Zohlnhöfer,&nbsp;Jan Jathe,&nbsp;Fabian Engler","doi":"10.1111/gove.12880","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gove.12880","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Did the financial and economic crisis (2008/2009) induce a permanent shift to more economic intervention in the advanced democracies? Three relevant theoretical perspectives are considered. First, the crisis could have led all governments to intervene more, irrespective of their partisan composition. Second, voter demand could have shifted towards more intervention due to the crisis, again inducing all governments to expand economic intervention. Third, increasing salience of economic issues could have led to an accentuation of partisan differences in economic policy which should have led to an expansion of economic intervention under left governments only. We present data from a new index of economic intervention, which show that governments increased economic intervention during the immediate crisis but returned to liberalization afterward. Similarly, statistical analyses show that partisan differences disappear during the acute crisis but return thereafter. Hence, the financial and economic crisis did not constitute a game-changer in economic policymaking in advanced democracies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.12880","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141344511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The co-governance of basic education: Assessing the complementary effects of intergovernmental support, municipal capacity, non-governmental organization presence and international development assistance","authors":"Charles W. Kaye-Essien","doi":"10.1111/gove.12879","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gove.12879","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ensuring equitable local service delivery requires sustained investments that are often beyond the reach of local governments in poor countries. In many developing countries, access to basic education is achieved primarily through the complementary efforts of state, municipal, non-governmental and international development agencies — what I call the <i>complementary “quartet”</i> of service delivery. While the current literature acknowledges the individual roles of this <i>“quartet</i>,” it has not given much attention to the influence of their complementary efforts on access and quality of education outcomes. Using a unique (2013–2015) dataset of 260 Ghanaian municipalities in a cross-sectional pooled regression analysis, the study finds that state assistance has broader influence on both access and quality of education outcomes, while municipal capacity, international development assistance and the presence of education focused non-governmental organizations are associated with access (enrollment).</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.12879","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141352797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking global governance: Learning from long ignored societies. By Justin Jennings, New York and London: Routledge. 2023. pp. 162. £31.99. ISBN: 978-1-003-37332-2","authors":"Sinta Novia,&nbsp;Aditya Putra","doi":"10.1111/gove.12878","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gove.12878","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141267639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conflict of interest in government: Avoiding ethical and conceptual mistakes","authors":"Archon Fung,&nbsp;Dennis Thompson","doi":"10.1111/gove.12870","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gove.12870","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Conflict of interest is among the most regulated forms of official behavior. In the United States, the vast bureaucracy of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is almost entirely devoted to controlling conflicts of interest. Ethics rules for state agencies and state legislatures are ubiquitous. But this profusion of effort has failed to solve the problem. According to one comprehensive survey, conflict of interest regulations in European countries abound, but “the landscape is highly fragmented [among] various ethics commissions, ethics inspectorates, ethics commissioners, integrity officers… No EU- and national administration is equipped with the necessary resources, skills, and tools to monitor COI in an efficient and effective way” (European Parliament, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;, pp. 8–9). Surveys show that conflict of interest is a major concern of citizens. There may well be more conflicts of interest now than several decades ago (Cox &amp; Thomas, &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;; Shepherd &amp; You, &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;; Wike et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;). Conflict of interest is among the least well understood of dilemmas of public office. By exposing errors about conflicts of interest, we hope to enable officials to confront these conflicts more honestly, citizens to judge official conflicts of interest more fairly, and regulators to do their job more competently.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Conflicts of interest compromise not just integrity and competence but democracy itself. Democratic processes importantly determine the public interest. Democracy requires officials to exercise their judgment to advance that public interest (Boot, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). Officials who are not motivated to act in the public interest thus threaten democratic governance. Contrary motivations arise because officials also have their own interests, often coming from their private lives, that may not be compatible with public interests. The juxtaposition of these two kinds of interests—a primary public interest dictated by their official role and a secondary interest influenced by private life—create the tension that is known as conflict of interest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A conflict of interest is thus best understood as a set of circumstances that is reasonably believed to create a substantial risk that an official's judgment of a primary, public, interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest which typically though not exclusively involves financial gain (Thompson, &lt;span&gt;1993&lt;/span&gt; see also chapter 2 of Institute of Medicine, &lt;span&gt;2009&lt;/span&gt;). A conflict of interest thus increases the risk of corruption. We have learned from common experience that secondary private interests can taint official's judgment about how best to advance the public interest. Comparative scholars note that while attention in the US has focused on the danger of private sector interests, in the parliamentary and Westminster systems, the burdens on MPs independent judgments often come from the party itself, for instance from a Prime M","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.12870","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141269010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Street-level bureaucracy and democratic backsliding. Evidence from Poland","authors":"Barbara Maria Piotrowska","doi":"10.1111/gove.12876","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gove.12876","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) are central to the implementation of government policies, which becomes crucial in the context of democratic backsliding. Their willingness to carry out policies developed by “unprincipled” principals influences the final impact of backsliding on citizens. Research on civil servants and anecdotal evidence indicate that SLBs may engage in various dissent activities when they disagree with politicians and their policies. However, the scale of this behavior depends on how many of them perceive the government as “unprincipled.” Hence, to understand the potential for dissent activities in the face of democratic backsliding, we need to examine SLBs' support for the ruling government. This paper focuses on Poland, an important case of democratic backsliding, analyzing the approval of the opposition parties and the protests in the wake of democracy-undermining reforms among the SLBs. By analyzing Polish Center for Public Opinion Research survey data, it concludes that SLBs' support for the opposition was not overwhelming, rendering significant scale of dissent activities at the street level unlikely.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"37 S1","pages":"127-151"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.12876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141197651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}