IV Governmental and Administrative Institutions / Institutions politiques et administratives
| Published date | 01 October 2023 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/00208345231209560 |
| Date | 01 October 2023 |
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GOVERNMENTAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTIONS
INSTITUTIONS POLITIQUES ET ADMINISTRATIVES
(a) Central institutions /Institutions centrales
73.6066 ABELLAN-GIMENEZ, María Dolores ; MARÍN-RIVES, Joaquin
Longinos ; PAREDES-GAZQUEZ, Juandiego — Local public
corporate responsibility: a scale development and valida-
tion. Public Policy and Administration 38(2), Apr. 2023 : 209-
232.
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has a long tradition
in business, but it is relatively new in public administration. Recently, there
has been general consensus that there is a need to promote CSR in public
administrations so as to improve transparency, governance, and the effi-
cient allocation of public resources. We develop a new scale for measuring
local public corporate responsibility (LPCR) based on CSR international
standards and inputs from experts and academics, who evaluate whether
the selected indicators are relevant, useful, adequate and practical for
measuring LPCR. We test the tool empirically by analysing the CSR prac-
tices of 24 municipal councils in a Spanish territory. The result is a scale
that allows us to determine the extent to which the municipal councils are
socially responsible. [R, abr.]
73.6067 ABNETT, Helen ; BOWLES, James ; MOHAN, John — The
role of charitable funding in the provision of public ser-
vices: the case of the English and Welsh National Health
Service. Policy and Politics 51(2), Apr. 2023 : 362-384.
The role of charity in the provision of public services is of substantial aca-
demic and practitioner interest, and charitable initiative within the English
and Welsh National Health Service (NHS) has recently received consider-
able attention. This study provides rich insights into the role that NHS-
linked charities present themselves as playing within the NHS. The dataset
analysed is a novel construction of 3,250 detailed expenditure lines from
676 sets of charity accounts. Qualitative content-analysis of itemised de-
scriptions of expenditure allows us to explore how these charities portray
their activities. We distinguish between expenditures that can be framed
as supplementary to government funding (such as amenities and com-
forts) and items that suggest charitable effort is substituting for govern-
ment support (such as funding for clinical equipment). [R, abr.]
73.6068 ANDERSON, Sarah E. ; PLANTINGA, Andrew J. ; WIBBEN-
MEYER, Matthew — Inequality in agency response: evi-
dence from salient wildfire events. Journal of Politics 85(2),
Apr. 2023 : 625-639.
Government agencies may be an additional source of unequal represen-
tation beyond that stemming from the differential responsiveness of
elected officials. We use plausibly exogenous focusing events, which raise
public demands for government provision of local public goods, to examine
evidence of inequality in agency decision-making. Using the empirical
case of wildfire risk-management in the western US, we find that experi-
encing nearby wildfires raises the salience of wildfire risk and leads agen-
cies to place a greater number of risk reduction projects nearby, even
when wildfire risk has already been reduced. This effect predominates
among high socio-economic status communities, especially higher in-
come, more educated, and whiter communities. [R, abr.]
73.6069 BARRY, Nicholas ; MIRAGLIOTTA, Narelle ; NWOKORA, Zim
— The Prime Minister's constitution: cabinet rulebooks in
Westminster democracies. Governance 36(2), Apr. 2023 :
421-438.
The transformation of governance in Westminster democracies is well
documented. However, one aspect of their change that has not received
much attention is the creation and publication of cabinet rulebooks. The
few studies of cabinet rulebooks have focused on their potential constitu-
tional im plications, leaving unclear how their emergence fits within the
broader development of Westminster governance. We address this gap in
the literature by examining cabinet rulebooks in five Westminster democ-
racies: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
We analyze their features and emergence, and then set out a framework
to analyze their potential effects on cabinet dynamics. We find that the
appearance of cabinet rulebooks can be tied to several forces of change
in Westminster systems, but most especially the growth of government.
[R, abr.]
73.6070 BATTAGLINI, Marco ; SCIABOLAZZA, Valerio Leone ;
PATACCHINI, Eleonora — Abstentions and social networks
in Congress. Journal of Politics 85(2), Apr. 2023 : 581-592.
We study the extent to which personal connections among legislators in-
fluence abstentions in the US Congress. Our analysis is conducted by ob-
serving representatives’ abstentions for the universe of roll-call votes held
on bills in the 109th-113th Congresses. Our results show that a legislator’s
propensity to abstain increases when the majority of his or her alumni con-
nections abstains, even after controlling for other well-known predictors of
abstention choices and a large set of fixed effects. We further reveal that
a legislator is more prone to abstain than to take sides when the demands
from personal connections conflict with those of the legislator’s party. [R]
73.6071 BAWOLE, Justice Nyigmah ; LANGNEL, Zachariah — Admin-
istrative reforms in the Ghanaian public services for gov-
ernment business continuity during the COVID-19 crisis.
Public Organization Review 23(1), March 2023 : 181-196.
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions to public service
delivery but heightened citizens demand for services. We examined public
sector reforms implemented in the Ghanian public sector to ensure public
service continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using content analysis
and key informant interviews we found that reforms such as flexible work-
ing schedule, redesign of offices, directorates, and installations of equip-
ment, online monitoring and assessment of targets, and conducting ser-
vices online were instrumental in ensuring the continuity of government
business. We recommend that public sector managers should allocate ad-
equate resources to digital-based public sector reforms to better prepare
for wicked transboundary human threats such as Covid-19. [R]
73.6072 BEKTAS, Eda — Legislative committees in the Turkish Par-
liament: performing procedural minimum or effect ive
scrutiny? Journal of Legislative Studies 29(1), 2023 : 135-
170.
This study examines committee influence on government bills during the
AKP’s 2011-2015 majority government term in Turkey, an era character-
ised by democratic backsliding. It explores whether committees introduce
more substantial amendments to government bills when they draw on their
scrutiny powers (i.e. hearing sponsoring ministers, hearing stakeholders,
forming subcommittees, secondary committee review) providing them di-
verse information and policy expertise. I hypothesise and test under what
conditions committees use these competencies to initiate substantial
changes. Overall findings based on a novel dataset indicate that legislative
committees introduce more substantial amendments to government bills
when they consult with sponsoring ministers and stakeholders. These find-
ings suggest that the formal capabilities of legislative committees provide
opportunities for legislators to influence government legislation even in ad-
verse political contexts, as these mechanisms limit the government’s abil-
ity to impose its legislative agenda unilaterally. It contributes to the debates
on strengthening legislatures for effective government scrutiny. [R]
73.6073 BHATTACHARYA, Caroline — Restrictive rules of
speechmaking as a tool to maintain party unity: the case
of oppressed political conflict in German Parliament de-
bates on the euro crisis. Party Politics 29(3), May 2023 : 454-
469.
In parliaments with party-centred rules of speechmaking, like the German
Bundestag, we observe an overrepresentation of loyal frontbenchers on
the speakers’ list. Previous research shows that party-controlled access to
the plenary floor limits opportunities to voice dissent, but we lack empirical
investigation of the overall impact on the contestation in debates. This ar-
ticle presents a case study of Bundestag debates on the euro crisis, which
estimates the discursive impact by comparing speeches with MPs’ written
expressions, known as explanations of vote (EoVs), and introducing asso-
ciation rule mining in an innovative network analytical approach. The find-
ings confirm that restrictive rules reduce the visibility of intra-party conflict
and constrain the space for coherent narratives, backbench concerns and
political alternatives at an aggregate level, raising questions about the
democratic functions of parliamentary debates. [R, abr.]
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