Policy positions and jobs in the government
Policy positions and jobs in the government
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政府的政策职位和工作
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2005
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通讯作者：
M. Laver
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作者：
D. Giannetti;M. Laver
摘要： 这篇文章对1996年意大利大选后组成的普罗迪政府的全部职位--包括内阁部长和初级部长--的分配进行了理论和实证分析。我们首先讨论将政府政策预测与内阁和初级部长的政策立场联系起来的理论论点。然后，我们评估被任命为普罗迪内阁的内阁和初级部长的政策立场，应用一种新的技术，对1996-1997年议会会议期间收集的每位部长的立法发言进行计算机内容分析。在考虑了这些结果的表面有效性后，我们然后使用它们来探索各种理论方法的可观察到的含义。我们的结论是，在这种情况下，似乎确实有系统的证据将政府工作岗位的分配和部门间支出模式的演变与高级政客的政策立场联系起来。
Abstract. This article conducts a theoretical and empirical analysis of the allocation of the full set of jobs – both cabinet and junior ministers – in the Prodi Government that formed after the Italian election of 1996. We first discuss theoretical arguments linking forecasts of government policy to the policy positions of both cabinet and junior ministers. We then estimate the policy positions of cabinet and junior ministers appointed to the Prodi cabinet, applying a new technique for computerized content analysis to the collected legislative speeches of each minister during the 1996–1997 parliamentary session. Having considered the face validity of these results, we then use them to explore to observable implications of the various theoretical approaches. We conclude that, in this case, there does appear to be systematic evidence linking both the allocation of government jobs and the evolution of spending patterns between departments to the policy positions of senior politicians.