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ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad +1 more
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Presidentialism and Executive-Legislative relations in Argentina (1983-2007)
This work shows that Executive-Legislative dynamics in Argentina for the period 1983-2007, has been one of the causes of institutional instability in that country (and, therefore, of poor economic performance).
Javier Sabater
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ABSTRACT This article develops an analytical framework for understanding regulators' struggles for legitimacy, highlighting tensions between two key sources: credibility and responsiveness. A regulator must earn credibility with actors around the regulatory arena, but organizational tools for credibility‐building, including codified rules and mobilized
Takuya Onoda
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Transparency or Access? E‐Procurement's Two Paths to Integrity: Evidence From Italy
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether e‐procurement adoption is associated with procedural competition and transparency, two core components of procurement integrity. Using award‐level microdata for Italian regional contracting authorities (2019–2023), we analyze a period preceding the legal obligation of full‐cycle digital procurement, when the use of ...
Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta +2 more
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ABSTRACT Over the past decade, the better regulation agenda has emerged as a powerful instrument for enhancing the law‐making process across the EU. This paper empirically investigates Greece's adherence to better regulation principles, focusing on key aspects such as the regulatory text, public consultation processes, impact assessments, parliamentary
Constantinos Saravakos +3 more
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The scholarly literature on presidentialism and parliamentarism in modern comparative politics has argued that the combination of presidential government and a multiparty system is problematic. In multiparty systems, of course, the formation of coalition
Antonio Garrido
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ABSTRACT This paper investigates why Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have adopted distinct care strategies, despite shared demographic challenges and developmental legacies. It advances a dual‐layered framework of state autonomy that distinguishes between elected and unelected state actors and integrates cross‐national differences in electoral ...
Jooha Lee
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Abstract Electoral systems in deeply divided societies are pivotal for peace and stability among ethno‐national groups. Consociationalism and centripetalism are the most widespread approaches from which derive the major incentives for electoral systems in deeply divided, dyadic societies.
Ivan Pepić
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Polymer sequence and solvent selectivity independently modulate pendant‐vinyl accessibility during photocuring, trapping different topologies in CLIP and controlling mechanical properties. ABSTRACT Block copolymers (BCPs) offer distinct advantages for vat photopolymerization by enabling mechanically programmable network structures through microphase ...
Chia‐Min Hsieh +12 more
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