ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
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Coding the future: digital technologists and the constitution of the next system. [PDF]
Deepak D, Manski B.
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Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
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Clarifying Public Policy for Stronger Public Administration in Development
ABSTRACT Public policy is ubiquitous, yet its meaning is often unclear. This ambiguity is not just conceptual. Because policy work is a large part of what public administrations do, how we define policy shapes how we structure and organize our administrative mechanisms.
Matt Andrews
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Fiscal austerity and municipal health spending: an interrupted time series study. [PDF]
Maia LR, Campos MR, Castanheira D.
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Health technology assessment and judicial deference to priority-setting decisions in healthcare: Quasi-experimental analysis of right-to-health litigation in Brazil. [PDF]
Wang D +7 more
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Intergovernmentalism and the crisis of representative democracy: The case for creating a system of horizontally expanded and overlapping national democracies. [PDF]
Blatter J, Schulz J.
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ABSTRACT This study compares policy responses to persistent low fertility in Korea and Hungary, two countries facing similar demographic pressures but embedded in distinct institutional settings. It asks whether the diffusion of pronatalist policies has produced convergence in the design, implementation, and effects of fertility policy in these cases ...
Kilkon Ko, M. Jin Lee, Tamás Pesuth
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Latino gangs in Spain: from the Latin Kings & Queens to the Dominican don't play. [PDF]
Feixa C.
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Ministerial Advisers in Personal Patronage Settings: Evidence From Israel
ABSTRACT The characteristics of ministerial advisers are predicted to correspond to the type of politicization setting in which they operate. The only systematic framework mapping these correspondences was developed predominantly in party‐driven patronage contexts.
Zehavit Levitats
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