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The politics of policy inquiry commissions: Denmark and Norway, 1971-2017
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Policy inquiry commissions are widely used in policy-preparparparation processes across Europe and beyond as discussed by the authors, and they have been used as expert bodies and corporatist a...Abstract:
Policy inquiry commissions are widely used in policy-preparation processes across Europe and beyond. While previous research has primarily focussed on commissions as expert bodies and corporatist a...read more
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The national origins of policy ideas : knowledge regimes in the united states, france, germany, and denmark
TL;DR: The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark as mentioned in this paper is an excellent overview of the history of policy ideas in the US.
An Equivalence Approach to Balance and Placebo Tests
TL;DR: This article argues that equivalence tests are better able to incorporate substantive considerations about what constitutes good balance on covariates and placebo outcomes than traditional tests, and shows how to apply these procedures to tests of design.
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Political and administrative control of expert groups - a mixed‐methods study
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined politicoadministrative control with expert advisory commissions in Norway and found that both politicians and bureaucrats can take interest in limiting the gap between political/administrative policy preferences and expert group output.
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Royal commissions and public inquiries: Practice and potential [Book Review]
TL;DR: Prasser and Tracey as discussed by the authors reviewed the practice and potential of the Royal Commission and public enquiry process, focusing on the role of the public inquiry in the process of public inquiry.
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Varieties of capitalism : the institutional foundations ofcomparative advantage
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What to do (and not to do) with time-series cross-section data
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Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
TL;DR: In this paper, an issue ownership theory of voting was developed and applied to analyze the role of campaigns in setting the criteria for voters to choose between candidates, and the individual vote was significantly influenced by these problem concerns above and beyond the effects of the standard predictors.