MEDIA ATTENTION AND THE DEMISE OF AGENCY INDEPENDENCE: EVIDENCE FROM A MASS ADMINISTRATIVE REORGANIZATION IN BRITAIN
MEDIA ATTENTION AND THE DEMISE OF AGENCY INDEPENDENCE: EVIDENCE FROM A MASS ADMINISTRATIVE REORGANIZATION IN BRITAIN
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媒体关注与机构独立性的消亡：来自英国大规模行政重组的证据
DOI：
10.1111/padm.12190
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
BERTELLI A
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作者：
BERTELLI A
当行政机构被终止时，它们是否会悄悄地从公众视野中淡出？一方面，被终止的机构可能拥有薄弱的问题网络和机构声誉，使它们失去公众关注。另一方面，强大的问题网络和机构声誉可能意味着终止会增加对机构的关注，使政府为问题网络中的行为者产生的公众关注付出代价。我们通过使用英国最近独立机构的大规模重组的独特数据集，以及主要全国性报纸上媒体对机构的关注的数据来评估这些相互矛盾的说法。使用差异差异方法，我们发现，被终止的机构在主要报纸上的媒体报道数量减少，在决定改革后的时期从公众视野中消失。
When administrative agencies are terminated, do they quietly fade from public view? On the one hand, the terminated agencies may have weak issue networks and agency reputations, allowing them to lose public salience. On the other, strong issue networks and agency reputations may mean that termination increases attention to the agencies, making the government pay the cost of public attention generated by the actors within the issue networks. We assess these competing claims by using a unique dataset from a recent mass reorganization of independent agencies in Britain as well as data capturing media attention to agencies in major national newspapers. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, we find that the agencies subject to termination experience reductions in the amount of media coverage in major newspapers, disappearing from public view during the post‐decision reform period.