Abstract How does media attention shape bureaucratic behavior? We answer this question using novel data from the Mexican federal government. first develop a new indicator for periods of anomalously heightened attention, based on 150,000 news articles pertaining to 22 government ministries and agencies, qualitatively categorize their themes. then evaluate responsiveness administrative roughly 50...

Strong leadership is required to overcome the bureaucratic and financial obstacles.

We model policy implementation in a parliamentary democracy as a game of delegation between the prime minister and his cabinet ministers. We show that cabinet reshuffles can be a pursued as a strategy to reduce the agency-loss which occurs due to the different preferences of the actors. Furthermore, when certain conditions are meet cabinet reshuffles have a dual effect; they reduce agency-loss ...

Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article “Governance, Government and the Search for New Provider Models,” and use two case studies of health policy changes in Sweden and Spain to shed light on the subject. In this commentary, I seek to link their conceptualization of governance, especially its interrelated roles at the macro, meso, and micro...

The task of the State Civil Apparatus as mandated in Act is to provide good service community, therefore it very important if has an entrepreneurial spirit providing services so that provided have characteristics fast and timely service. But reality, public we meet community still a long bureaucratic span, because one them related human resources than ASN who do not understanding competencies t...

In International Relations (IR) scholarship, the epistemic communities’ framework has gained relevance for explaining roles of experts in context transnational global governance. However, IR scholars have criticized descriptive reasoning. This paper aims to strengthen its explanatory power by following rules a systematic literature review and using Desmond’s conception professionalism further d...