Abstract. Politically motivated personnel turnover affects government bureaucracy’s legitimacy and performance. To understand the conditions of meritocracy

Satisfaction with democracy after winning and losing without elections

This study examines the implications of growing legal complexity in climate policy on the implementation of climate legislation, focusing on the European Union (EU). While complex legal frameworks ...

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Policy growth has become a defining feature of modern governance, contributing to administrative overload and reduced policy effectiveness. While most research addresses this phenomenon from a macr...

In the parliamentary election of September 2025 the Labour government was re-elected against the odds. Only 9 months earlier, in December 2024, polls had indicated that the coalition of Labour and ...

The hybridity of different public management reform patterns has increased in both space and timeframe due to rapid changes in the external environment and internal shifts in values and structures ...

While national identity results in either positive or negative opinions towards immigrants, strong identification with a minority nation has been associated with ethnic- and language-based nationalis...

Abstract. Questions of equality and justice have long been important in peace and conflict studies, and a consensus has emerged that systematic inequalitie

Student representation in external quality assurance is a mandatory requirement in European higher education systems and the involvement of students in such processes is seen as important for the l...

Are the highest-ranking public officials rewarded for good performance? Using the case of finance ministers, we argue that this depends on the type of regime. D...

Abstract. Loyalty shifts within state security forces critically impact dissent campaign outcomes and have frequently precipitated regime breakdowns. Exist

The recent global decline in liberal democracy is widely discussed and often contrasted with the increased prevalence of this regime type in the late-twentieth century. I present and critically eva...

The growing significance of informal intergovernmental organisations (IIGOs) in global politics necessitates a re-evaluation of leadership dynamics. We develop a theory framework that enables us to e...

Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law - May 2026

Empirical Legal Studies in EU Law - May 2026

Acta Politica - Some political parties employ clientelist practices to gain voter support. Yet as more citizens now vote from abroad, little is known about parties engaging in clientelism...

Partisan loyalties have been found to stabilize voting behavior in democracies with strongly institutionalized party systems. This article considers how party e...

This study examines the effects of the New Public Service and New Public Management models on organizational efficiency within the Saudi Ground Services Company. Utilizing a survey of 342 employees, the findings demonstrate that both models significantly enhance objective achievement, timeframe, and cost savings, with reliability and service quality emerging as the most critical factors. Notably, the implementation timeframe has the greatest influence on efficiency. The study recommends integrating both models, improving service accessibility and digital infrastructure, and focusing on employee training to align with Saudi Vision 2030, thus achieving a balance between citizen-focused services and organizational efficiency.

This study investigates how governmental reputation signals – performative, moral, procedural, and technical – influence citizens’ coproduction willingness, moderated by self-efficacy, household si...

What explains speechmaking in Africa's Westminster-style parliaments? Weak parties, presidentialism and first-past-the-post elections suggest that parliamentarians have an electoral incentive to sp...

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We examine the relationship between food insecurity and urban social disorder, featuring the degree of inequality and levels of governmental repression. We develop a formal theoretical model, and our ...

Sector switching refers to individuals making career moves between private, public, and nonprofit sectors. We examine how moving from the private to the public sector shape employees’ values. To th...

Higher education has gained significant political salience globally, driven by continuous massification, increased public and private investment, and its central role as a driver of modern knowledg...

Governments in advanced democracies often implement self-binding mechanisms like regulatory offsetting schemes to counteract short-term political incentives. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of...

This article examines the impact of crises – beginning with Brexit in 2016 – on the European knowledge area, an area of growing political salience in the EU. We argue that by looking at the multi-l...

In recent decades, the presidency in South Korea has increasingly become critical to the East Asian country’s vested interests in the Middle East. Despite such ...

A comprehensive analysis of public personnel reform, particularly of an unfamiliar one that involves a substantial overhaul in a rapidly evolving context, presents a considerable challenge. Specifical...

Transnational private institutions (TPIs) operate at the intersection of technocratic efficiency and democratic accountability, raising important questions about when and why they adopt particular le...