Informal Authority, Legitimacy Transition, and Institutional Change: A Theory of Advisory Capture
ABSTRACT How do informal actors achieve rapid bureaucratic dismantlement without formal authority? Analyzing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, this article argues that when performance‐based legitimacy displaces procedural legitimacy as the dominant evaluative framework, informal actors can bypass established safeguards and ...
Byunggeor Moon
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Evolution and challenges of sport policy in Lithuania: a historical and contemporary analysis. [PDF]
Mikalauskas R, Valantine I, Begović M.
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The Role of Public Administrators in Building a Robust Liberal Democracy
ABSTRACT After decades of expansion, liberal democracy is threatened by autocratic populists. These actors exploit widening gaps between leaders and citizens, as well as growing political polarization in the population, to consolidate executive power by undermining courts, sidelining elected assemblies, discrediting public administrators, and ...
Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing
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EUPopLink Country report - Georgia. [PDF]
Tabatadze S, Khuroshvili B.
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ABSTRACT The moral decision‐making and behavior of politicians is influenced by the distinctive and characteristic attributes of political office. This literature review analyzes 80 articles from public administration, political science and related disciplines to systematically map these attributes and their underlying mechanisms. This study identifies
Manon Koopman +2 more
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How does the Nigerian health system serve people living with disabilities? A socio-ecological analysis on people living with visual impairment. [PDF]
Dike N +4 more
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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An Analytical Review of Reckless Driving in Ghana: Causes, Consequences and Regulatory Responses. [PDF]
Kyei-Gyamfi S +9 more
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Etapization and periodization of anti-corruption legislation in Ukraine
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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories
ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
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