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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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Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID-19 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Udi Sommer, Jonathan Parent, Quan Li
With increasingly frequent emergencies related to pandemics, climate change, or any other as yet unforeseen disaster, it is imperative to develop our understanding of how opportunistic legislation and policy grabs may appear even in democracies. Circumventing a lengthy process of public debate and government regulation, declaration of emergency may be conducive to such opportunism. Underlying mechanisms
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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
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Mandatory due diligence laws and climate change litigation: Bridging the corporate climate accountability gap? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Mikko Rajavuori, Annalisa Savaresi, Harro van Asselt
The debate on corporate climate accountability has become increasingly prominent in recent years. Several countries, particularly in the Global North, have adopted mandatory human rights and/or environmental due diligence legislation. At the same time, judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings are helping to shape the contours of corporate climate accountability. This article considers how litigation
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Conceptualization and measurement of regulatory discretion: Text analysis of 120 years of British legislation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Nir Kosti
Regulatory discretion is a central concept in the study of the regulatory state. Yet little attention has been paid to the origins of regulatory discretion, and how it varies across polities, policy areas, and over time. This paper presents a conceptualization of regulatory discretion that draws on three dimensions: delegation, content, and procedure. It argues that to measure regulatory discretion
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Under the influence: The celebrity factor in policy capture Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Christopher N. Dougherty, Susan D. Phillips
Celebrity is a form of policy influence that can occur under distinctive circumstances. This paper draws on the regulatory/policy capture literature to develop a model of celebrity capture that explains how interest groups can affect policy in the absence of economic clout or constituency mobilization. We posit that the likelihood of celebrity capture increases when several factors align: (1) a context
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Regulating government affairs: Integrating lobbying research and policy concerns Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 David Coen, Alexander Katsaitis, Matia Vannoni
Lobbying has never been as sophisticated, complex, and well-funded as it is today. Significantly, interest group strategies are more advanced than the regulatory practices meant to contain them. This raises concerns about states' ability to resist unwanted influence from interest groups. How can government regulations be brought up to speed to address 21st-century lobbying practices? We argue that
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Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Johann Laux, Sandra Wachter, Brent Mittelstadt
In its AI Act, the European Union chose to understand trustworthiness of AI in terms of the acceptability of its risks. Based on a narrative systematic literature review on institutional trust and AI in the public sector, this article argues that the EU adopted a simplistic conceptualization of trust and is overselling its regulatory ambition. The paper begins by reconstructing the conflation of “trustworthiness”
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The portrayal of effectiveness of supplier codes of conduct in improving labor conditions in global supply chains: A systematic review of the literature Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Sarah Vandenbroucke
Even though workplace conditions worldwide are subject to local and international laws, labor conditions in global supply chains have continuously raised human rights concerns. In response to societal pressure, multinationals have taken on a certain degree of responsibility regarding workplace conditions in supplier factories, notably by adopting codes of conduct. Investigating the impact of this self-regulatory
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Would regional competition pressure affect audit quality? Evidence from a spatial distribution of the audit market Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Wanyi Chen, Ning Hu, Zhengjie Sun, Yiling Zhang
This study finds that the greater the pressure of regional competition, the more likely auditors are to issue aggressive audit reports that could damage audit quality. This phenomenon exists mainly in the increasing number of small audit offices in the same region. However, the increasing number of local Big 6 audit offices positively impacts audit quality. Furthermore, individual interviews and penalties
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The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Markus Hinterleitner, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach
This article reviews the vibrant literature on policy growth in political science and adjacent disciplines, thus offering a conceptual framework for situating past and future research efforts and facilitating the engagement between them. The first part presents important concepts that capture policy growth or aspects of it (rule growth, policy layering, policy mixes, policy accumulation, policyscapes
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Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with COVID-19 regulations Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Danqi Guo, Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla, Genia Kostka
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens' compliance with government preventive measures was one of the top policy priorities for governments worldwide. This study engages with socio-legal and psychological theories on compliance and proposes an analytical framework to explore the role of different psychological factors on individual-level compliance during global health crises. Using the results of three
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Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Jette Steen Knudsen, Molly Elder
Focusing on 23 greening measures, this paper systematically compares the greening efforts of the busiest container and cargo ports in the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). We move beyond accounts for general environmental differences between the EU and the US to examine how specific environmental decisions are shaped by the effects of regulatory characteristics in each region. We identify
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Incorporating equity and justice concerns in regulation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-12-11 Caroline Cecot, Robert W. Hahn
US regulatory agencies have been encouraged to consider the equity and distributional impacts of regulations for decades. This paper examines the extent to which such analysis is done and provides recommendations for improving it. We analyze 189 regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) that monetize at least some benefits and costs prepared by a variety of agencies from October 2003 to January 2021. We find
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The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Joan-Ramon Borrell, Carmen García, Juan Luis Jiménez
This paper estimates the impact of reforming competition authorities on perceived antitrust effectiveness using methods of causal inference. We study how 20 countries reformed their competition authorities in depth between 1995 and 2020, and what has been the outcome of such reforms in the perceived competition policy effectiveness by the business community compared with 18 control countries in a balanced
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Reputation management as an interplay of structure and agency: A strategic-relational approach Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Jan Boon
Reputation scholars in the field of regulation tend to focus on the strategic nature—or: “agency”—of reputation management. We know fairly little about the precise nature of the dynamics and conflicts between structural and agential factors that are experienced by regulators in practice, and how these dynamics impact reputation management and its outcomes. This study addresses these questions, using
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The government behind insurance governance: Lessons for ransomware Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Tom Baker, Anja Shortland
The insurance as governance literature focuses on the ability of private enterprises to collectively regulate, pool, and distribute risks. This paper analyzes how governments support insurance markets to maintain insurability and limit risks to society. We propose a new conceptual framework grouping government interventions into three dimensions: regulation of risky activity, public investment in risk
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Transparency and corruption: Measuring real transparency by a new index Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Despite the salience of transparency in policy and democracy debates a global measurement of transparency has always been missing. It its absence, measuring the impact of transparency on accountability and corruption for a large number of countries has been difficult, with scholars using more or less adequate proxies. This paper introduces a new measurement of real transparency—the T-index—using 14
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Regulatory overlap: A systematic quantitative literature review Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-10-23 Lachlan Robb, Trent Candy, Felicity Deane
Regulatory failure caused by overlapping regulations is ubiquitous, with examples in all jurisdictions across a range of disciplines. Overlapping regulation can be problematic. It obscures policy objectives and hinders the development of effective and clear regulation. In addition, regulatory overlap can inflict real costs on businesses through repetitive inspections and data collection efforts. It
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Does appealability foster more citizen-friendly decisions at the street level? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Sagi Gershgoren, Nissim Cohen
Unbiased conduct is an essential part of the social contract between the state and its citizens. Yet, when tasked with settling disputes between citizens and other state officials, are public administrators truly impartial in their resolutions? Such a question is vital for street-level bureaucrats whom the public perceives as the face of governance. This study investigates the relations between the
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Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life-and-death policies in Belgium Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Irina Ciornei, Eva-Maria Euchner, Michalina Preisner, Ilay Yesil
This article makes important contributions to governance research by studying the implementation of policies with high potential for goal incongruence between intermediaries and regulators. Building on a regulatory intermediation framework and prevailing theories from organizational institutionalism, we propose an original typology that classifies intermediaries' strategies for coping with challenging
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From voluntary to mandatory corporate accountability: The politics of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 David Weihrauch, Sophia Carodenuto, Sina Leipold
Following a long-standing and highly contested policy debate, in June 2021, the German parliament passed the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act requiring mandatory due diligence (MDD) of large companies, holding them accountable for the impacts of their supply chain operations abroad. Applying the discursive agency approach and using evidence from policy documents and 21 interviews with key stakeholders
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The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Tom Christensen, Mads Dagnis Jensen, Michael Kluth, Gunnar Helgi Kristinsson, Kennet Lynggaard, Per Lægreid, Risto Niemikari, Jon Pierre, Tapio Raunio, Gústaf Adolf Skúlason
Government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Nordic states—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—exhibit similarities and differences. This article investigates the extent to which crisis policymaking diverges from normal policymaking within the Nordic countries and whether variations between the countries are associated with the role of expertise and the level of politicization. Government
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Explaining variations in enforcement strategy: A comparison of the Swedish health care, eldercare, and compulsory school sector Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Linda Moberg, Mio Fredriksson, Karin Leijon
This article analyzes whether, and if so, why, national inspectorates adopt different enforcement strategies when controlling the provision of welfare services, such as health care, eldercare, and the compulsory school. The findings show that the Swedish Schools Inspectorate uses a predominantly strict strategy, while the Health and Social Care Inspectorate relies on a more situational strategy. To
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Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization of mandatory due diligence in France and Germany Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-09-24 Maria-Therese Gustafsson, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, Andrea Lenschow
In the recent past, European states have adopted mandatory due diligence (MDD) laws for holding companies accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of their supply chains. The institutionalization of the international due diligence norm into domestic legislation has, however, been highly contested. Our contribution analyzes the discursive struggles about the meaning of due diligence
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Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Ori Aronson, Julia Elad-Strenger, Thomas Kessler, Yuval Feldman
Public legitimation of legal decisionmaking can be promoted through various strategies. We examine strategies of legitimation that are premised on personalizing the public image of legal agents. A personalized public administration emphasizes individual decisionmakers and seeks legitimacy through familiarity with the character, identity, and virtues of individual agents, whereas a non-personalized
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Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-09-17 Giovanni De Grandis, Irina Brass, Suzanne S. Farid
The need to better balance the promotion of scientific and technological innovation with risk management for consumer protection has inspired several recent reforms attempting to make regulations more flexible and adaptive. The pharmaceutical sector has a long, established regulatory tradition, as well as a long history of controversies around how to balance incentives for needed therapeutic innovations
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Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-08-26 Caroline de la Porte, Trine P. Larsen, Åsa Lundqvist
This paper investigates the regulation of publicly organized early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Denmark and Sweden, through the regulatory welfare state (RWS) framework. The analysis focuses on how alterations in funding and quality of care are shaped by governmental and nongovernmental actors at national and local levels of government. Through focused structured analysis, we examine how
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Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Joe McGrath, Ciaran Walker
This article addresses the issue of renewing a sense of vocation in finance. Drawing on experiences in the UK, Australia, and Ireland, three common law jurisdictions at various phases of developing “an ethical esprit de corps” to professionalize the banking industry, it argues that adopting some aspects of a profession, a “trajectory towards professionalization” of the banking industry, could serve
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Corrigendum Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-07-26
We inform our readers that we have found an article in our pages, Capano and Pritoni (2020), to have sentences of identical text to an article published by the same authors in another journal (Capano et al. 2020). The overlap is considered by the Editors to be minor. We have reproduced the overlapping text below with the appropriate citation to the Journal of Public Policy article:
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Issue opacity and sustainability standard effectiveness Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Frank Wijen, Mallory Elise Flowers
Many voluntary sustainability standards govern opaque environmental and social issues, which are difficult to understand and address. Extant studies show mixed evidence around the effectiveness of such standards. We develop a theoretical framework that relates different degrees and types of opacity to standard effectiveness. Systemic opacity results from issues embedded in complex, diverse, and dynamic
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Caught in quicksand? Compliance and legitimacy challenges in using regulatory sandboxes to manage emerging technologies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Walter G. Johnson
Regulatory sandboxes have become the latest development in regulatory reform, starting first in financial regulation and now expanding to other sectors. While sandboxes offer notable potential benefits for managing emerging technologies, achieving desirable policy outcomes with this novel regulatory instrument also comes with technical and political challenges. This article offers a framework to characterize
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Preventing construction deaths: The role of public policies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Wayne B. Gray, John Mendeloff
Are stronger direct financial incentives or regulatory enforcement effective in reducing fatalities in the construction industry? We examine two important policies—state workers' compensation (WC) programs and federal and state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) activities—which embody those strategies. We examine their impact by looking at state-level fatality rates in the construction
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Regulatory reforms, normative changes, and performance: Evidence from the electricity sector in Latin America Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Camilo Ignacio González, Alketa Peci
Over the past three decades the Latin American region has experienced various regulatory reforms, and distinctive normative changes have been introduced in the framework, instruments, or procedures adopted by independent regulatory agencies (IRAs). While there is evidence that the establishment of an IRA positively affects regulated sector performance, little is known about the effects of these additional
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Governance reforms and public acceptance of regulatory decisions: Cross-national evidence from linked survey experiments on pesticides authorization in the European Union Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Jonathan Zeitlin, David van der Duin, Theresa Kuhn, Maria Weimer, Martin Dybdahl Jensen
Do governance reforms affect public acceptance of regulatory decisions, and if so, how? We tackled this critical but under-studied question through a pair of linked survey experiments on public attitudes toward the reform of European Union (EU) pesticides regulation among a representative sample of the adult population in six EU member states. We tested the expectation that citizens are more likely
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Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Eva-Maria Euchner, Nicolle Zeegers
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
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General courts, specialized courts, and the complementarity effect Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Ehud Guttel, Alon Harel, Yuval Procaccia
Among the major decisions any legal system must make is deciding whether to establish general courts with broad jurisdiction, or specialized courts with limited jurisdiction. Under one influential argument—advanced by both judges and legal theorists—general courts foster coherence within the legal system. This Article identifies a distinct effect of establishing general courts: the “complementarity
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Framing policies to mobilize citizens' behavior during a crisis: Examining the effects of positive and negative vaccination incentivizing policies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Talia Goren, Itai Beeri, Dana R. Vashdi
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the issue of mobilization policies, that is, government practices directed at making the mass public voluntarily perform various behaviors for the collective benefit during a crisis. As COVID-19 vaccinations became accessible, governments faced the challenge of mass vaccination mobilization in order to achieve herd immunization. Aiming to effectively realize this
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Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-06-11 Matthias Thiemann, Bart Stellinga
Implementing precautionary measures that have obvious distributional consequences today but often only invisible future benefits is politically difficult. It requires that policymakers reconcile technocratic expertise with political consent. This paper traces attempts to enact such measures, focusing on countercyclical policies to limit the systemic risks of housing booms as proposed by financial stability
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Regulating the retirement age—Lessons from Nordic pension policy approaches Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Fritz von Nordheim, Jon Kvist
The likelihood that longevity will continue to increase has generated a search for regulation that make people work longer as they live longer, and thus not just containing pension expenditure but also enlarging labor supply, economic growth, and tax revenue. In public pension policy, Nordic countries have led the world with three types of approaches aimed at making people retire later. The first came
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The end of Nudge and the beginning of The Behavioral Code? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Jeroen van der Heijden
Scholars of regulation have long engaged with behavioral oriented research to assess its value for regulatory theory and practice. This book review discusses two recent publications in this area: Nudge: The Final Edition by Richard Thaler and Cas Sunstein (2021) and The Behavioral Code: The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better or Worse by Benjamin van Rooij and Adam Fine (2021).
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Expert network interaction in the European Medicines Agency Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Reini Schrama
The need for supranational regulatory capacity and the drive for governmental control are two colliding forces in international governance. As a solution to this governance dilemma, European administrative networks need to simultaneously fulfill the demand for supranational institutions and maintain governmental control. The assessment of risks associated with medicines authorized on the European market
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Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Anna Ilsøe, Carl Fredrik Söderqvist
The entry of gig-platforms to labor markets world-wide has caused significant frictions with national institutions and regulators, including trade unions. In this article, we compare the interactions between taxi and food delivery platforms with the industrial relations (IR) systems of Denmark and Sweden, where we observe isolated instances of unions striking collective agreements with platforms. We
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Is the government exhausting its powers? An empirical examination of eminent domain exercises in New York City pre- and post-Kelo Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Ronit Levine-Schnur
A controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London (2005) which did not limit the use of state's eminent domain powers, led to an unprecedented legislative reaction by almost all 50 states. Of all, New York State stands out as one of the single states not to respond with a legislative amendment. In this study, I ask whether the state's predation was greater in the years following
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When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Fiona Kinniburgh, Henrik Selin, Noelle E. Selin, Miranda Schreurs
Private standards play an increasingly important governance role, yet their effects on state-led policymaking remain understudied. We examine how the operation of private agricultural standards influences multilateral pesticide governance with a particular focus on the listing of substances under the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides
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Prescribing engagement in environmental risk assessment for gene drive technology Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Sarah Hartley, Adam Kokotovich, Caroline McCalman
Gene drive technology is a nascent biotechnology with the potential to purposefully alter or eliminate a species. There have been broad calls for engagement to inform gene drive governance. Over the past seven years, the gene drive community has been developing risk assessment guidelines to determine what form future gene drive risk assessments take, including whether and how they involve engagement
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Toxic waste and public procurement: The defense sector as a disproportionate contributor to pollution from public–private partnerships Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Dustin T. Hill, Mary B. Collins
Public procurement is a large sector of the economy with most procurement going to the defense sector. Procurement by the defense sector includes purchases made through contracts to private businesses that manufacture durable goods. Manufacturing of these goods results in pollution production with toxic wastes being among the most dangerous pollutants for public health. Despite green purchasing policy
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Support for behavioral nudges versus alternative policy instruments and their perceived fairness and efficacy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Peter John, Aaron Martin, Gosia Mikołajczak
An extensive debate has emerged in recent years about the relative merits of behavioral policy instruments (nudges) aimed at changing individual behavior without coercion. In this article, we examine public support for non-deliberative nudges and deliberative nudges and compare them to attitudes toward top-down regulation and free choice/libertarian options. We also examine whether support for both
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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 : 2022-03-11 Jens Arnholtz
While many coordinated market economies have responded to internationalization by regulation that creates dualization between insiders and outsiders, the Nordic countries have opted for an embedded flexibilization in which strong unions and cooperative employers have combined flexibility and equality. However, in recent years, the Nordic countries have come under pressure from an EU-induced dualization
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Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Scott James, Lucia Quaglia
Scholarship on regulating global finance emphasizes the importance of national and bureaucratic interests, but less attention has been devoted to epistemic sources of regulatory conflict. We address this by analyzing the failure of regulators to agree tougher rules for large investment funds after the 2008 crisis. The article suggests this outcome was the result of epistemic contestation between prudential
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Business Lobbying in the European Union, edited by DavidCoen, AlexanderKatsaitis, MatiaVannoni, Oxford University Press. 2021. ISBN: 9780199589753, Price £75.00 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Scott James
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Different encounter behaviors: Businesses in encounters with regulatory agencies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.203) Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Helle Ørsted Nielsen, Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen
Studies on regulatory encounters have shown that the interaction between regulator and regulatee is important for implementation of public policy. Much of this research examines how the behavior of frontline workers in such encounters affects regulatee compliance, that is, an outcome of the encounter, but we know less about the behavior that regulatees bring to these encounters. This paper therefore