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Informal Authority, Legitimacy Transition, and Institutional Change: A Theory of Advisory Capture

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Propaganda, Administrative Deformation, and the Erosion of State Capacity: The Case of the “Censorship Industrial Complex”

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how a propaganda frame alleging the existence of a “Censorship Industrial Complex” was institutionalized and then helped justify the dismantling of US election information resilience infrastructure across multiple federal agencies.
Renée DiResta, Dean Jackson
wiley   +1 more source

Public Interest Capacity: The Case of Direct File

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article describes the conditions for creating and undermining public interest capacity, that is, the ability of the state to generate public goods with widely distributed benefits. The creation and elimination of Direct File, a free, online public tax reporting system in the United States, offers an instrumental case.
Donald Moynihan, Pam Herd, Xiaoyang Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances research on policy accumulation by analyzing its political consequences in the French housing sector. It argues that, in the context of decentralization reforms, the accumulation of policy instruments has undermined national steering capacities and intensified territorial inequalities.
Francesco Findeisen, Patrick Le Galès
wiley   +1 more source

The Environmental Race to the Bottom, Revisited

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study revisits the environmental race to the bottom thesis in the United States, which argues that states compete for mobile capital by relaxing environmental regulations. Examining state‐level enforcement of federal surface mining and air pollution control regulation over a 35‐year period, we find robust evidence of strategic interaction
David M. Konisky, Neal D. Woods
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement on the Missions and Activities of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, 2011–2023

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What motivates US‐based environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) to incorporate social justice (SJ) into their missions and activities? How does this integration occur? ENGOs could integrate SJ issues that speak directly to their environmental mission or address non‐environmental topics, such as police reform.
Elizabeth Echavarría, Joannie Tremblay‐Boire, Nives Dolšak, Aseem Prakash   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

When insurers retreat: The governance of wildfire disasters and how FAIR plans allocate climate risk

Risk Management and Insurance Review, EarlyView.
Abstract As wildfire risk accelerates private insurer retreat, state‐governed FAIR Plans increasingly serve as the primary coverage available in hazard‐prone areas. This paper analyzes these residual markets as instruments of disaster governance, arguing that their design reflects distributive political choices regarding risk allocation.
Katarzyna Klasa
wiley   +1 more source

The Timing of Trade Adjustment: Evidence From Financial and Labor Frictions

Review of International Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how financial development and labor‐market rigidity in exporting countries shape the timing of trade adjustment following economic integration agreements (EIAs), and how the two interact. Using a piecewise linear trend specification, the analysis traces how export adjustment evolves around agreement entry and shows that ...
Jae Wook Jung
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of military base closures on young adults

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how young adults respond to local labor market disruptions caused by military base closures in Sweden between 1998 and 2005. The results show substantial differences in responses between men and women, reflecting the sharp gender imbalance in military roles.
David Sandberg
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Shocks and Unemployment Claims

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a US state–level climate risk measure and the panel local projections framework, this study analyzes both linear and asymmetric effects of climate shocks on unemployment claims. The results provide strong evidence that climate shocks significantly increase both initial and continuing claims, with the linear estimates showing a stronger ...
Abeeb Olaniran, Xin Sheng, Oguzhan Cepni, Rangan Gupta   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source