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Constitutional Reform: A Recipe for Restoring Faith in Our Democracy? [PDF]
, 2012 The first coalition since the Second World War is itself an innovation at Westminster. But it also came to power committed to an ambitious programme of constitutional reform – including fixed-term parliaments, directly elected mayors and local police ...
Seyd, Ben
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Driving Success: Factors in Public Sector BPM Projects
Knowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the growing adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) in public administration, little is known about which factors drive BPM project success in countries like Brazil, where bureaucratic processes, heterogeneous legacy systems, and political instability create unique implementation challenges.
Nilton Takagi +2 more
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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together the literature on policy design, policy capacity and policy making in multilevel systems, this paper argues that the effectiveness of policy design in federal countries depends, ceteris paribus, on the adequacy of federal and local policy capacities.
Giliberto Capano +1 more
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2009 This research note considers the effects of electoral system reformin Bolivia. In 1995, Bolivia moved from a list-proportional to a mixedmemberproportional electoral system.
Miguel Centellas
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Political Determinants of Economic Reforms in the Post-Communist Transition Countries [PDF]
This paper examines how political institutions and electoral outcomes have affected the economic reform process in the post-communist transition countries.
Staehr, Karsten +2 more
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Election Law and the Presidency: An Introduction and Overview [PDF]
, 2016 Americans now fully appreciate that presidential candidates are vying for a majority of the Electoral College votes, rather than the individual votes of constituents.
Goldfeder, Jerry H.
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Contesting Regulatory Capacity: Exploring Doctrines in the Regulatory State
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The contemporary literature on regulation and development has emphasised the importance of low discretion devices for achieving desired policy objectives. At the same time, there has been a growing recognition that state capacity in general, and regulatory capacity more specifically, are essential for achieving development goals in a world of ...
Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Martin Lodge
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Romanian Local Election Mechanisms. Continuity versus Change
Sfera Politicii, 2012 2012 election, which took place under exceptional political auspices, is generally considered atypical when compared to the other five post-communist local election cycles, the two reasons for this being the increased citizen ballot presence (caused by ...
Alexandru Radu
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Disentangling fiscal effects of local constitutions
, 2017 We apply the difference-in-discontinuities design to disentangle the fiscal effects of the governance system conditional on electoral systems. We take advantage of a natural experiment, which involves two institutional reforms at the local level in ...
Kantorowicz, Jarosław +1 more
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