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Unofficial intermediation in the regulatory governance of hazardous chemicals Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Erik Hysing, Sabina Du Rietz Dahlström
Regulatory intermediaries—organizations that operate between regulators (public and private) and target groups—perform a range of important functions. While most previous research has focused on intermediaries that have been delegated official authority, in this paper we focus on unofficial and informal intermediary functions aiming to advance the governance of per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
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European administrative networks during times of crisis: Exploring the temporal development of the internal market network SOLVIT Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Reini Schrama, Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen, Ellen Mastenbroek
European administrative networks (EANs) are an increasingly prominent form of European Union (EU) governance. Although these networks are typically portrayed as important and flexible forms of organization, we lack knowledge of their temporal dimension, including their development in times of crisis. This paper provides a first analysis of network interaction as it unfolds before and during times of
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Regulation timing in the states: The role of divided government and legislative recess Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Tracey Bark, Elizabeth Bell, Ani Ter-Mkrtchyan
Bureaucratic rulemaking is a key feature of American policymaking. However, rulemaking activities do not occur uniformly, but fluctuate throughout the year. We consider three mechanisms to explain these changes in rule volume, each of which produces unique expectations for rulemaking during periods of divided government and legislative recess. To test these expectations, we leverage an original dataset
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Rules as data Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Alessia Damonte, Giulia Bazzan
Rules lie at the core of many disciplines beneath regulatory studies. Such a broad interest inevitably comes with fragmented understandings and technical choices that hinder knowledge cumulation and learning. This introduction tackles these limitations through an encompassing analytical blueprint from measurement theory. First, it addresses ambiguities to establish formal rules as a distinct research
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The Limits of Interest: Moral economy and public engagement in the regulation of derivatives in the United States Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 J. Nicholas Ziegler, Konrad Posch, Thomas Nath
This article analyzes the public comments submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), 2010–2014, in response to proposed rules for implementing the Dodd-Frank reforms. By addressing a fine-grained typology of commenting organizations to a topic model of the combined comments, we illuminate a new pattern of public engagement in financial regulation. Contrary to the economic concept
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Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Dionys Zink, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach
Research on policy implementation traditionally has focused on understanding the success or failure of individual policies within specific contexts. Little attention has been given to the challenges that emerge from the cumulative growth of policy portfolios over time. This paper is addressing this research gap by examining the phenomenon of organizational policy triage, which occurs when implementation
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Policy complexity and implementation performance in the European Union Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Maximilian Haag, Steffen Hurka, Constantin Kaplaner
This study examines the relationship between the complexity of EU directives and their successful implementation at the national level. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, we propose a comprehensive framework considering structural, linguistic, and relational dimensions of policy complexity. We argue that policy complexity entails higher transaction costs, hindering effective implementation. Using
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Properties of supranational governance structures and policy diffusion: The case of mifepristone approvals Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Juan J. Fernández, Pilar Sánchez
Many studies show that supranational governance structures (SGS)—understood as international organizations or international treaties—contribute to the global diffusion of public policies. However, we still have a limited understanding of which properties of SGS hasten the number of policy adoptions. To advance this literature, we argue that SGS making legally binding and univocal claims are more likely
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Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sebastian Hemesath, Markus Tepe
Building on the concept of participatory regulation, this study emphasizes recognizing the multidimensional character of citizens' risk regulation preferences. Using the case of autonomous vehicles, we specify six technology-related risks: product safety, regulatory oversight, legal liability, ethical prioritization, data protection, and human supervision. We argue that differences in these multidimensional
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Breaking the iron triangle around nuclear safety regulation: The cases of France, Japan, and India Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Philip Andrews-Speed, Nur Azha Putra
The International Atomic Energy Agency asserts that the regulation of the safety of civil nuclear power requires national regulatory agencies to be effectively independent. However, in the early years of national civil nuclear power programs national nuclear industries were dominated by iron triangles or subgovernments of powerful actors with an interest in promoting the industry. The creation of an
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Developmental channels: (Incomplete) development strategies in democratic Latin America Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Renato H. de Gaspi
In the early 2000s, Latin America witnessed a resurgence in debates concerning the state's economic role, coinciding with a political transformation as new parties emerged to power. Existing literature on the “return of Industrial Policy” in the region largely offers a descriptive perspective, bypassing the intricacies of policy typifications and their associated political foundations. This paper addresses
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How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Mette Østergaard Pedersen, Koen Verhoest, Heidi Houlberg Salomonsen
Existing research investigating regulatory agencies' reputation-conscious behavior have primarily focused on reactive behavior in the context of reputational threats. Additionally, this literature has primarily focused on agencies' responses to such threats and external audiences' perceptions of agencies reputation, although reputation resides in both external and internal audiences. This study aims
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Fostering compliance with voluntary sustainability standards through institutional design: An analytic framework and empirical application Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Charline Depoorter, Axel Marx
The institutional design of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) has been recognized as an important determinant of compliance with VSS rules, which partly explains heterogeneity in VSS sustainability impacts. However, the current understanding of how VSS institutional design generates compliance is scattered and lacks systematic operationalization. This paper brings together different strands
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Administrative responses to democratic backsliding: When is bureaucratic resistance justified? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Michael W. Bauer
Populist, illiberal, or outright autocratic movements threaten democracies worldwide, particularly when such extreme political forces gain control of executive power. For public administration illiberal backsliders in government pose a dilemma. Trained on instrumental values and expected to implement neutrally the political choices of their elected superiors, bureaucrats lack orientation of how to
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Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains: The case of aquaculture Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Sake R. L. Kruk, Hilde M. Toonen, Simon R. Bush
Sustainability risks in aquaculture are increasingly addressed through forms of assurance that rely on the use of digital technologies. By bringing in new actors and informational processes, these forms of digital sustainability assurance challenge existing notions of how global value chains are governed. Based on in-depth interviews with experts, we find that the growing use of digital technologies
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European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk-based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Regine Paul
The European Commission has pioneered the coercive regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), including a proposal of banning some applications altogether on moral grounds. Core to its regulatory strategy is a nominally “risk-based” approach with interventions that are proportionate to risk levels. Yet, neither standard accounts of risk-based regulation as rational problem-solving endeavor nor theories
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Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Chase Foster, Kathleen Thelen
Neo-Brandeisian legal scholars have recently revived the ideas of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who championed state regulation that preserved market competition and economic liberty in the face of concentrated private power. Yet ultimately and perhaps paradoxically, it has been Europe and not the United States that has proved more hospitable to accommodating key features of the Brandeisian
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Political studies of automated governing: A bird's eye (re)view Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Andreas Öjehag-Pettersson, Vanja Carlssson, Malin Rönnblom
In this paper, we develop an approach for analyzing the increasingly important strand of research that deals with automated systems of governing. Such systems, which figure prominently in public policy and regulation, are designed to utilize the rapid advancement in computer technology, like artificial intelligence, with the purpose of governing something or someone. Drawing on a large sample of articles
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Regulating for trust: Can law establish trust in artificial intelligence? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux, Clement Guitton, Simon Mayer, Christoph Lutz
The current political and regulatory discourse frequently references the term “trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI).” In Europe, the attempts to ensure trustworthy AI started already with the High-Level Expert Group Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and have now merged into the regulatory discourse on the EU AI Act. Around the globe, policymakers are actively pursuing initiatives—as the US Executive
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Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Hortense Jongen, Jan Aart Scholte
This article provides a novel systematic exploration of ways and extents that institutional characteristics shape legitimacy beliefs toward multistakeholder global governance. Multistakeholderism is often argued to offer institutional advantages over intergovernmental multilateralism in handling global problems. This study examines whether, in practice, perceptions of institutional purpose, procedure
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Performing central bank independence: The Bank of England's communicative financial stability strategy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Andrew Baker, Andrew Hindmoor, Sean McDaniel
Central bank independence (CBI) has been one of the most significant regulatory state developments of the last three decades. Following the 2008 financial crisis, many central bank mandates were extended to include a responsibility for financial stability. Some commentators claim this jeopardizes CBI by drawing central banks into contested political issues that can impact financial stability, in what
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Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Melissa-Ellen Dowling
To the detriment of liberal democracy, governments have struggled to prevent the exploitation of personal data for voter manipulation in the digital era. Laws pertaining to political microtargeting are often piecemeal and tend to derive from a combination of laws on electoral advertising and privacy. Evidence indicates that this approach is insufficient to curtail microtargeting. However, little is
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Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Stephen B. Kaplan, Sujeong Shim
Why does the International Monetary Fund (IMF) exit its lending relationships before member states have resolved their financial crises? It is particularly surprising given that the IMF often resumes its lending shortly after its withdrawal. We argue that IMF withdrawals are conditioned by global contagion risk. The tension between the IMF's mandate of global financial stability and its limited financial
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Distributive politics and electoral advantage in the 2022 Australian election Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Ian McAllister, Nicholas Biddle
Distributive politics—or pork barreling—is prevalent across many political systems. It aims to influence the vote by directing discretionary spending to constituencies and/or groups of voters that are important for their re-election. We term this the objective dimension to pork barreling. However, we argue that for pork barreling to deliver rewards, voters must also be aware that they are gaining a
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A resource-based perspective on the regulatory welfare state: Social security in the United Kingdom Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-10-29 David P. Horton, Gary Lynch-Wood
The article provides a resource-based perspective on the polymorphic regulatory welfare state. It shows regulatory and fiscal tools applied in the UK social security sector place demands on claimants' resources (i.e., possessions, labor and data) and simultaneously alter behavior in relation to these resources. The analysis exposes an operation that generates new and increasing resource pressures for
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Affidavit aversion: Public preferences for trust-based policy instruments Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Rinat Hilo-Merkovich, Eyal Peer, Yuval Feldman
Regulators who aim to reduce administrative burdens often promote trust-based policy instruments, such as legal affidavits or honesty pledges, as substitutes to traditional bureaucratic procedures. However, little is known on how the general public view such instruments, and whether people would actually comply with them, and under what circumstances. Using a series of experimental vignettes, we examine
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The governance of policy integration and policy coordination through joined-up government: How subnational levels counteract siloism and fragmentation within Swedish migration policy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Gustav Lidén, Jon Nyhlén
Modern welfare states struggle with fragmented policies and siloed governments, as well as with the need to deal with wicked problems. We argue that addressing such problems from the perspective of central government can be facilitated by notions of joined-up government that, combined with vertical aspects of modern governance, provide a basis for analysis. To embark upon such challenges, we examine
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The European administrative space over time mapping the formal independence of EU agencies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Eva Ruffing, Martin Weinrich, Berthold Rittberger, Arndt Wonka
Throughout the past decades, the EU's agency landscape has continuously expanded in size and scope. In this article, we address the lack of longitudinal data on EU agencies' formal independence. We introduce a newly revised index to measure the formal independence of EU agencies from other EU institutions over time. Applying a rules-as-data approach we coded 206 regulations and amendments to develop
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Extracting and classifying exceptional COVID-19 measures from multilingual legal texts: The merits and limitations of automated approaches Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Clara Egger, Tommaso Caselli, Georgios Tziafas, Eugénie de Saint Phalle, Wietse de Vries
This paper contributes to ongoing scholarly debates on the merits and limitations of computational legal text analysis by reflecting on the results of a research project documenting exceptional COVID-19 management measures in Europe. The variety of exceptional measures adopted in countries characterized by different legal systems and natural languages, as well as the rapid evolution of such measures
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Realizing a blockchain solution without blockchain? Blockchain, solutionism, and trust Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Gert Meyers, Esther Keymolen
Blockchain is employed as a technology holding a solutionist promise, while at the same time, it is hard for the promissory blockchain applications to become realized. Not only is the blockchain protocol itself not foolproof, but when we move from “blockchain in general” to “blockchain in particular,” we see that new governance structures and ways of collaborating need to be developed to make blockchain
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Rethinking the national quality framework: Improving the quality and safety of alcohol and other drug treatment in Australia Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Simone M. Henriksen
The national quality framework (NQF) has been implemented to improve the safety and quality of alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment and provide a nationally consistent approach to treatment quality in Australia. At the same time, concerns have been raised that, in the absence of appropriate regulatory structures to support the NQF, the quality and safety of AOD treatment services cannot be guaranteed
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The effects of transparency regulation on political trust and perceived corruption: Evidence from a survey experiment Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Michele Crepaz, Gizem Arikan
Scholarly evidence of transparency's beneficial effects on trust and perceptions of corruption remains debated and confined to the study of public administration. We contribute to this debate by extending the study of its effects to transparency legislation concerning members of parliament (MPs), political parties, and business interest groups. In an online experiment conducted in Ireland with 1373
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A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Hamish van der Ven
Practices of stakeholder engagement vary widely across voluntary sustainability standard setters. This study examines how the sponsorship structure of standard setters affects the diversity of stakeholders included in consultations and the influence of stakeholder input on standards. I compare six sustainability standard setters through an original dataset of 7945 stakeholder comments submitted during
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Understanding patterns of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking: Evidence from the European Union Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Adriana Bunea, Sergiu Lipcean
What explains the levels and diversity of stakeholder participation in public commenting on bureaucratic policymaking? We examine a novel dataset on a stakeholder engagement mechanism recently introduced by the European Commission containing information about 1258 events organized between 2016 and 2019. We highlight the importance of administrative acts' characteristics and acknowledge the role of
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Rethinking complementarity: The co-evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Christian Elliott, Amy Janzwood, Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann
In its 20 years of operation, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has been enormously successful as a private governor of corporate climate risk disclosure. Despite an influx of potentially competitive government-led disclosure initiatives and interventions, the use of CDP's platform has nonetheless accelerated. To explain this outcome, we argue that public interventions augment the value of private
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How do private companies shape responses to migration in Europe? Informality, organizational decisions, and transnational change Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Federica Infantino
This article takes an actor-centered and bottom-up perspective to analyze how private companies shape public responses to migration in Europe. It builds on ethnographic research with top managers and civil servants involved in visa policy, asylum reception, and immigration detention. Drawing on organizational theories about decisions and change, I analyze empirical evidence to put forward processes
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Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.0 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Saba Siddiki, Christopher K. Frantz
Over the last decade, there has been increased interest in understanding the design (i.e., content) of regulation as a basis for studying regulation formation, implementation, and outcomes. Within this line of research, scholars have been particularly interested in investigating regulatory dynamics relating to features and patterns of regulatory text and have engaged a variety of methodological approaches
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Jens Arnoltz, The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU-induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-07-26
Arnoltz, J. (2023) The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU-induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden. Regulation & Governance, 17, 372–388. The article listed above, intended for publication in the Special Issue,”Grand challenges and the Nordic model: regulatory responses and outcomes Symposium for Regulation & Governance”, volume 17, Issue
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Noncompliance with the law as institutional maintenance at ultra-religious schools Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Lotem Perry-Hazan, Netta Barak-Corren, Gil Nachmani
How do ultra-religious schools respond to state regulations that conflict with deep-rooted cultural norms? This study investigates this question in the context of Haredi boys schools' decisions regarding Israel's core-curriculum regulations. It draws on a first-of-its-kind dataset of interviews and school data collected from a representative sample of 82 principals and teachers in schools serving 18
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The revolving door in UK government departments: A configurational analysis Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Rhys Andrews, Malcolm J. Beynon
The “revolving door” between those at the top of public and private organizations has given rise to questions about the “pull” and “push” factors influencing public servants' switching into lucrative posts with companies they previously regulated. In this study, we investigate the departmental attributes associated with the movement of senior British civil servants into potentially controversial corporate
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Conceptualizing and measuring “punitiveness” in contemporary advanced democracies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Elizabeth Gordon Pfeffer
This article addresses a key political question regarding the relationship between states and their citizens: how harsh are judicial systems in their punishment of those who deviate from the law? Punitiveness is a fraught concept in the existing literature and robust measurement methods maximizing conceptual complexity are lacking. Here I develop a functional approach to punitiveness through a revised
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Concepts and measures of bureaucratic constraints in European Union laws from hand-coding to machine-learning Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Fabio Franchino, Marta Migliorati, Giovanni Pagano, Valerio Vignoli
Scholars employ two main measures of the executive constraints embedded in European Union laws: one is based on the variation in the use of different types of restrictions, and the second is based on the frequency of such use. They reflect two alternative conceptualizations of bureaucratic control. We label them, respectively, as the “toolbox perspective” and the “design perspective”. We illustrate
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Jurisdictional overlap: The juxtaposition of institutional independence and collaboration in police wrongdoing investigations Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Jihyun Kwon
Introducing multiple layers of “independent” structures has become a go-to strategy for public agent oversight. The question remains whether such decentralized, overlapping structural arrangements of oversight reduce regulatory uncertainty and produce better policy outcomes. Using the case study of Ontario, Canada, I examine the consequences of institutional layering for the specific and broader goal
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The logic of regulatory impact assessment: From evidence to evidential reasoning Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Kati Rantala, Noora Alasuutari, Jaakko Kuorikoski
Agencies involved in generating regulatory policies promote evidence-based regulatory impact assessments (RIAs) to improve the predictability of regulation and develop informed policy. Here, we analyze the epistemic foundations of RIAs. We frame RIA as reasoning that connects various types of knowledge to inferences about the future. Drawing on Stephen Toulmin's model of argumentation, we situate deductive
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Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Etienne Lepers, Matthias Thiemann
In the fallout of the 2008 crisis, macroprudential policy has been installed as the policy remedy against future financial instability, a primary focus being developments in the real estate sector. With house prices consistently rising in the EU since 2014, causing alarm among macroprudential supervisory bodies, a core question of EU regulatory governance is how far macroprudential bodies have been
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An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Fatimazahra Dehbi, Olga Martin-Ortega
Ten years since the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, we have witnessed an increasing trend in Europe toward the adoption of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. Focusing on due diligence legislation from France, Germany, Norway, and the EU, this article examines the extent to which these laws are laying the foundations for the articulation of an
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The stealth legitimization of a controversial policy tool: Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Alizée Delpierre, Didier Demazière, Hajar El Fatihi
Statistical profiling algorithms claiming to predict which jobseekers are at risk of becoming long-term unemployed are spread unevenly across countries. However, the pathways and histories of these tools are understudied. Because the profiling path in France is a winding one, it is fruitful to study the production of profiling acceptability within the Public Employment Service (PES), and upstream of
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Hardening corporate accountability in commodity supply chains under the European Union Deforestation Regulation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Laila Berning, Metodi Sotirov
The European Union (EU) has recently introduced the Deforestation Regulation to close regulatory gaps in the sustainability and legality of global forest and agricultural commodity supply chains. We analyze this regulatory policy change by drawing on accountability scholarship and institutionalist theories of regulation. Our results show that the Regulation aims to enhance corporate accountability
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Mind the ESG capital allocation gap: The role of index providers, standard-setting, and “green” indices for the creation of sustainability impact Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Jan Fichtner, Robin Jaspert, Johannes Petry
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) funds are among the fastest-growing investment styles. ESG investing thereby has a governing effect, and a key open question is whether ESG merely reduces risks for investors or whether it can have a sustainability impact and actively contribute to climate transition. This governance through ESG is characterized by three potential transmission mechanisms:
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The politics of supply chain regulations: Towards foreign corporate accountability in the area of human rights and the environment? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow
In recent years, binding regulations in the “home states” of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountable for human rights and environmental impacts throughout their supply chains. However, we still need a better understanding about to what extent such regulations contribute to enhance “foreign corporate accountability (FCA).” This article introduces
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Mechanisms of regulatory capture: Testing claims of industry influence in the case of Vioxx Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Eva Heims, Sophie Moxon
This paper presents a systematic empirical study of the causal mechanisms of regulatory capture. It applies process-tracing methods to the Vioxx drug scandal that was widely regarded to be a result of capture. In doing so, this paper provides a robust empirical analysis of regulatory capture lacking in the current literature. The analysis focuses on the role of the UK drug regulator in licensing and
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Traceability and foreign corporate accountability in mineral supply chains Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Svenja Schöneich, Christina Saulich, Melanie Müller
Industrialized economies in the EU depend heavily on imports of minerals. The extraction and parts of the transport and processing of these minerals take place in the Global South and often bear high human rights and environmental risks. A lack of traceability in mineral supply chains makes it particularly difficult to hold companies accountable for negative environmental and social impacts of their
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Rules as policy data? Measuring and linking policy substance and legislative context Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Steffen Hurka, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach
There is growing scholarly interest in analyzing changes in policies, laws, and regulations. Some concepts depart from the goal of identifying changes in policy substance. Other contributions have concentrated on the structural characteristics of laws and regulations containing these substantive changes. Extracting measures of policy substance from legislative texts is a challenging and time-consuming
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More control–less agency slack? Principal control and the risk of agency slack in international organizations Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Vytautas Jankauskas, Christoph Knill, Louisa Bayerlein
Principal-agent theorizing is based on the idea of a linear inverse relationship between principal control and agency slack: the higher the control over the agent, the less likely is the agent to slack. In this paper, we challenge this assumption by explicitly taking the varying nature of agents into account. While control may reduce the agent's room for maneuver, it does not explain the extent to
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The future of the international financial system: The emerging CBDC network and its impact on regulation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Heng Wang, Simin Gao
Central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a digital form of fiat currency. CBDC has the potential to be a game challenger in the international financial system, bringing increased complexities arising from technology and regulatory considerations, as well as generating greater currency competition. As more states begin exploring CBDC, the interactions between actors may lead to the emergence of a new
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From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Jonathan Miaz, Matthieu Niederhauser, Martino Maggetti
The implementation of international human right treaties is particularly challenging, especially when they entail obligations that apply at the subnational level. In this article, we examine how international law intermediaries translate and use international treaties in subnational policymaking processes. We develop a dedicated analytical framework, and we derive a typology, characterizing different
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Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Michael John Bloomfield, Nivi Manchanda
To examine how private regulatory governance reproduces a market logic that always already circumscribes possibilities for radical change, we tarry with Michel Foucault's notion of governmentality and his writings on power. We focus on two major initiatives created to regulate gold supply chains, subjecting their publicly released documents to a discourse analysis. This reveals subtle but tangible
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Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Chase Foster
Many scholars predict that European integration will foster adversarial legalism in Europe. In this article, I empirically assess the Eurolegalism thesis by examining EU regulatory mandates in the competition and securities fields, two policy areas where adversarial legalism is seen as most likely to develop. I argue that the diffusion of adversarial legalism to Europe has faced significant political
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Greening energy governance through agencification in the Global South: Drivers and implications Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Andrea Prontera, Alessandro Rubino
This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of the emergent modes for greening electricity governance through agencification in the Global South by examining the drivers and role of renewable energy agencies (REAs) in various countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Furthermore, the article illustrates the impact of this form of agencification on the deployment of renewables and