Regulatory intermediaries have received attention in the analysis of different policy fields recently. Yet, their role in morality-based national governance arrangements is hardly addressed, neither is the question of how regulators incorporate stigmatized private actors. The current special issue contributes to closing this research gap by examining the three-party relationship between public regulators, private intermediaries, and targets in prostitution policy implementation. This introduction presents a typology of indirect moral governance, which is based on two dimensions: (1) the extent to which regulators perceive intermediaries as being trustworthy and (2) their operational capacities. Leveraging examples from the papers in the special issue, we elaborate on how the two dimensions lead to four forms of intermediation. Thus, the typology offers an innovative analytical tool to systematizes regulators' responses to governance and implementation problems in the case of morality policies and value-laden issues more generally, including the responsibilization of stigmatized actors.

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卖淫政策中的间接道德治理：监管机构如何将被污名化的行为者纳入中介过程

监管中介机构最近在不同政策领域的分析中受到关注。然而，它们在以道德为基础的国家治理安排中的作用几乎没有得到解决，监管机构如何纳入被污名化的私人行为者的问题也没有得到解决。本期特刊通过研究公共监管机构、私人中介机构和卖淫政策实施目标之间的三方关系，有助于缩小这一研究差距。本文介绍了间接道德治理的类型学，它基于两个维度：（1）监管机构认为中介机构值得信赖的程度；（2）他们的运营能力。利用特刊中的论文示例，我们详细说明了这两个维度如何导致四种中介形式。因此，