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Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for gov...
ABSTRACT Retrospective voting is arguably one of the most important mechanisms of representative democracy, and whether or not the public holds the government accountable for... -
Health Reforms in Rajasthan: An Empirical Study on Agencification
Abstract Agencification, or the carving out of independent agencies from the government, is a New Public Management approach for restructuring government through separation of... -
Are policy-makers interested in social research? Exploring the sources and us...
Abstract This article explores the use of research and expertise within a selection of government agencies at state and federal levels in Australia. A recent survey of public... -
The European debate on governance networks: Towards a new and viable paradigm?
Abstract This paper aims to take stock of the European debate on governance networks in order to assess whether or not it has succeeded to develop a new a viable paradigm... -
The Judiciary's Role in Good Governance in Korea
Abstract This paper will focus on the role that the judiciary has played in improving public sector governance in Korea. It will argue that the increased level of enforcement... -
The Price of Doing Good: Executive Compensation in Nonprofit Organizations
This article examines whether nonprofit executive pay patterns are consistent with the espoused social mission of these organizations. We find that nonprofit CEOs are paid a... -
Doing things with numbers: The Danish National Audit Office and the governing...
Like the Supreme Audit Institutions of many other OECD countries, the Danish National Audit Office has stepped up its performance auditing of public administrations and agencies... -
The Role of Property Tax in Fiscal Decentralization in Indonesia
Abstract Indonesia has embarked on a decentralization process with potentially far reaching implications for its fiscal system and political economy. This paper examines the... -
Policy-making in an era of agencification: An exploration of task divisions b...
Abstract In many Western countries, alongside NPM-rhetoric, important tasks of public service delivery have been devolved to autonomous single purpose agencies. This was also... -
Legitimation capacity: System-level resources and political skills in public ...
AbstractThis paper conceptualizes political competences at the system level of capabilities to function as “legitimation capacity” in a policy context. It identifies trust in... -
Government communication and democratic governance: Electoral and policy-rela...
Abstract Government communication is now a large growth industry in many countries. Exactly what is meant by the term, however, varies from author to author. In this paper... -
The media, voter fraud, and the U.S. 2012 elections
Over the past decade, voter fraud has emerged as a salient issue in American politics and elections. Despite minimal evidence of fraud cases and non-existent effects on election... -
Ethics and issues in public policy
Several reasons can be identified which discourage issues from being defined as “ethical” issues in public policy making. One is the cost of resolving ethical issues, another is... -
Political rationality vs. technical rationality in China's target-based perfo...
Abstract Performance measurement is not only a technical tool but also a product of politics. Therefore, examining the politics behind the implementation of performance... -
Watchdogs or guard dogs: Do anti-corruption agencies need strong teeth?
Anti-corruption advocates worldwide deride “toothless” anti-corruption agencies and demand agencies “with teeth,” meaning strong law enforcement powers. However, there are...
