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Is Less More? Field Evidence on the Impact of Anti‐Bribery Policies on Employee Knowledge and Corrupt Behavior Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-05-13 Nils Köbis, Sharon Oded, Anne Leonore de Bruijn, Shuyu Huang, Benjamin van Rooij
Companies increasingly adopt internal norms to enhance compliance with legal rules. However, the rapid growth in volume and complexity of such internal rules may obstruct employee knowledge and understanding of such internal rules, and therefore also their compliance. The present study seeks to understand whether shorter and more accessible formats of internal company norms will yield better knowledge
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Drivers of Noncompliance With Vaccine Mandates—The Interplay Between Distrust, Rationality, Morality, and Social Motivation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-05-05 Katie Attwell, Hang Duong, Amy Morris, Leah Roberts, Mark Navin
COVID‐19 amplified the issue of public resistance to government vaccination programs. Little attention has focused on people's moral reasons for noncompliance, which differ from—but often build upon—the epistemic claims they make about vaccine safety and efficacy, disease severity, and the trustworthiness of government. This study explores the drivers of noncompliance with the COVID‐19 vaccination
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The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-05-01 Tyler A. Scott, Sojeong Kim, Liza Wood
We perform bibliometric analysis on documents for 255 Regulatory Impact Analyzes (RIAs) prepared by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1980 through 2024. Using a series of automated information extraction methods, we extract references from these documents and match them to bibliographic records. We then build a database of relevant articles (whether cited in an RIA or not) and fit a
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Reengaging Criminology in Regulation and Governance: A Synergistic Research Agenda on Regulatory Guardianship Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-19 Carole Gibbs, Fiona Chan, Rachel Boratto, Tyler Hug
Recent literature calls for scholars to bridge the divide that has emerged between criminology and regulation and governance. In the current work, we propose that criminological opportunity theories provide one fruitful pathway to that end. Specifically, we introduce the notion of regulatory guardianship based on the concepts of guardians, guardian capability, and guardian willingness to intervene
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Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Michael Giesen, Thomas Gehring, Simon Linder, Thomas Rixen
Assigning the preparation of decisions to specialized committees composed of member state representatives is a widespread response to the ‘governor's dilemma’, that is, the tension between competence and control, in international organizations (IOs). We theorize a causal mechanism referring to self‐selection and agenda‐setting effects and show how the resulting division of labor among IO bodies produces
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How to Govern the Confidence Machine? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-10 Primavera de Filippi, Morshed Mannan, Wessel Reijers
Emerging technologies pose many new challenges for regulation and governance on a global scale. With the advent of distributed communication networks like the Internet and decentralized ledger technologies like blockchain, new platforms emerged, disrupting existing power dynamics and bringing about new claims of sovereignty from the private sector. This special issue addresses a gap in the literature
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Issue Information Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-08
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Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-08 Basak Kus, Gregory Jackson
Although political economy (PE) has long engaged with environmental issues, climate change has remained at the margins of the field until very recently. This article argues that fully addressing the transformative challenges brought up by climate change requires a fundamental rethinking of core PE concepts related to the state, distributional struggles, economic growth, varieties of capitalism, and
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Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-04 Libby Maman, Yuval Feldman, Tom Tyler
New governance models increasingly employ self‐regulation tools like pledges and nudges to achieve regulatory compliance. These approaches premise that voluntary compliance emerges from intrinsic motivation to cooperate rather than coercive measures. Central to their success is trust—both in government institutions and among citizens. However, rising societal polarization raises critical questions
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From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap. Yet we contend that focusing on national models of capitalism is limited because they do not explain within‐country variations
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Taking Eco‐Social Risks Seriously: Explaining the Introduction of Compulsory Insurance for Natural Hazards Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Anne‐Marie Parth
Given the ongoing climate crisis, the frequency and severity of natural disasters are increasing. These events result in enormous reconstruction costs, pose a high burden on state budgets, and potentially drive homeowners into private insolvency. One policy instrument for collectively covering such costs is a compulsory insurance scheme for natural hazards. As the impact of natural disasters is uneven
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Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-14 Eleanor Brooks, Kathrin Lauber
Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda‐setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report. Using a social process tracing methodology, we analyze the removal from the agenda of provisions for
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Administrative Sanctions and Loose Legal Norms: Resistance and Street‐Level Policy Reversal in Norway Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-12 Stig S. Gezelius
How do provisions for administrative sanctioning affect the implementation of loose legal norms? To streamline regulation, governments have increased their penal capacity by authorizing administrative sanctioning, and they have decentralized regulatory responsibility by loosening legal norms. A case study of Norway's animal welfare governance shows how using administrative sanctions to enforce loose
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Picking Losers: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-12 Timur Ergen, Luuk Schmitz
Decarbonization forces societies to cope with the restructuring and outright unwinding of assets, firms, workers, industries, and regions. We argue that this problem has created legitimacy for industrial policies managing the reallocation of resources. We illustrate this dynamic by documenting incremental state‐building in the European Union, an administration institutionally tilted toward regulatory
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Political Economy and Climate Change Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-12 Neil Fligstein
The crisis of climate change threatens the existence of human civilization. As social scientists, we should be positioned to theorize and study whether or not the existing system of global capitalism can find ways to ameliorate the crisis or is doomed to cause that collapse because of the overwhelming power of dominant economic interests. This paper argues that right now our dominant theories of capitalism
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In the Eye of the Storm? A Quantitative Content Analysis on the Influence of Surrogate Inspectorates on Media Frames Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-12 Julia Wesdorp
In the past decades, scholars have provided novel insights on the role of media within regulation. Still, this strand of research has received less attention to the networked nature of contemporary regulatory governance. This article studies surrogate inspectorates, who focus on motivating the implementation/enforcement of regulatory rules, often temporary and without formal capacity. Based on a quantitative
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The Green Economy and the Global South Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-02 Kathryn Hochstetler
The idea of a “green economy” is one of the latest attempts to bridge the environment and development aims, with a focus on economic growth that makes it appealing to countries that still see a significant development gap to make up. Yet the green economy—most often studied in the Global North and made the target of explicit policy initiatives there, often with substantial public and private resources—also
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The Rise of Investor‐Driven Climate Governance: From Myth to Institution? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-26 Rami Kaplan, David L. Levy
Investor‐driven climate governance (ICG) is premised on mobilizing finance to address climate change by leveraging investors to pressure companies to reduce emissions. Examining the rapid growth of ICG from an institutional political economy perspective, we argue that powerful financial and regulatory actors with varied interests coalesced to promote the discourse that climate risks equal financial
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Climate Change and the Social Order Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-20 Jens Beckert
Despite decades of awareness, societies have failed to adequately respond to climate change, as evidenced by rising CO2 emissions and the continued dominance of fossil fuels in global energy consumption. This failure underscores the structural constraints of capitalist modernity, where economic and political incentives, as well as consumer behaviors, obstruct effective climate action. Beyond the challenge
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Caught Between Privacy and Surveillance: Explaining the Long‐Term Stagnation of Data Protection Regulation in Liberal Democracies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-20 Nicolas Bocquet
This article pursues two objectives. First, it aims to trace the genealogy of data protection regulation in major liberal democracies. To do so, it examines the evolution of this regulation in the United States, France, and Germany, among others, and relies on the policy actors' triangle framework. Second, the article provides an explanation for the paradox that emerges from this diachronic analysis:
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Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Jose Atiles, David Whyte
Secrecy jurisdictions play a crucial role in the legal framework perpetuating climate change. This paper demonstrates how these jurisdictions sustain the dynamics of climate change by enabling capital accumulation rooted in environmental degradation. A regulatory approach to law and climate change must address the global nature of the legal structure that upholds exploitative and ecocidal social relationships
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Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Ilana Shpaizman
The budget is the outcome of bargaining between spenders and guardians. Most research on budgeting sees all spenders as a unitary actor. This article argues, instead, that there are different relations at play between guardians and each spending ministry. Based on a comparison between four social ministries in Israel, it shows that these relations differ in terms of the level of involvement of guardians
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Corporate Governance in a Crypto‐World Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Sinclair Davidson
This paper explores the nature of governance both within and by blockchains and the economies they support. There is a widespread assumption that the proper governance model for these economies is political. In this paper, I make an alternative claim, namely that a more accurate model for blockchain governance is as a species of corporate governance. Political and corporate governance are similar,
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Outsourced, Inspected, and Effective? The Effect of Inspections on the Safety Performance of Prisons in England and Wales 2004–2012 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Ayako Nakamura
While outsourcing of public services is today widespread, maintaining their quality remains a challenge. External inspections are seen as essential for overseeing private providers, yet their effectiveness has not been thoroughly investigated. This study evaluates the impact of pre‐scheduled inspections on the performance of private and publicly operated prisons in England and Wales between 2004 and
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The Blockchain Treasury Governance Dilemma Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Darcy W. E. Allen, Chris Berg, Aaron M. Lane
Blockchain treasuries are pools of cryptocurrency earmarked for funding goods and services within a blockchain ecosystem, such as protocol upgrades. Blockchain participants, such as users and developers, face a trust problem in ensuring that the treasury is robust to opportunism, such as theft or misappropriation of the assets. Treasury governance structures, such as committees or stakeholder voting
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The Impact of Emergencies on Corruption Risks: Italian Natural Disasters and Public Procurement Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-25 Mihaly Fazekas, Shrey Nishchal, Tina Soreide
Theory and case studies suggest that emergencies and disasters increase corruption, especially in public procurement, hampering relief and reconstruction efforts. Despite a growing interest in the topic, including in research, there is still little systematic evidence about these effects, their structure and trajectories. We set out to investigate the medium‐term impact of disasters on corruption risks
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Issue Information Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-22
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Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Ixchel Perez‐Duran, Yannis Papadopoulos, Bastiaan Redert, Juan Carlos Triviño‐Salazar
This paper examines expertise and professional diversity within new (agencies and central banks) and traditional (ministries) regulatory bodies (RBs) and assesses their effect on the perceived competence of RBs. In particular, we address the following research questions: To what extent do members of RBs have expertise and display diversity in terms of their professional trajectories? How do expertise
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Subsidizing Unprofitable Industries: The Political Determinants of Agro‐Industrial Policy in French Overseas Departments Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Thibaut Joltreau
Why do states subsidize unprofitable industries? This paper applies the Programmatic Action Framework and adapts it to neocorporatist settings to uncover the political determinants of industrial policies. Empirically, it explores how a longstanding coalition of economic, administrative and political actors has maintained public funding for the sugarcane agro‐industry in French overseas departments
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Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Human Agents and Networks in System Change Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Miranda Forsyth, Anthea Roberts
This article focuses on the roles of insiders or outsiders in order to theorize the role that human agents play in systems change. It asks: (1) what strengths and weaknesses do insiders and outsiders have respectively as agents of change; and (2) what strategies are available to use these insights to increase, or to limit, the prospects of significant and lasting change? Drawing on an interdisciplinary
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The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Franziska Leopold, Bianca Blum, Dominik Schröder
Against the background of the European decarbonization strategy, this study examines the extent to which the expansion of renewable energies can lead to tensions with the social and ecological dimensions of the sustainability concept. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 66 experts conducted in the trinational metropolitan region of the Upper Rhine in Germany, France, and Switzerland.
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More Than One Agent? Authority Expansion and Delegation Dynamics in the EU Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-08 Anastasia Ershova
Recent studies focus on the issue of authority transfer to supranational institutions. While examining the opportunities and obstacles for expanding the Union's competencies, this literature often overlooks the effects of adopting ambitious policies on their implementation modes. This paper argues that the costs associated with the expansion of EU authority and opportunities for blame‐shifting drive
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Disembedded: Regulation, Crisis, and Democracy in the Age of FinanceBy BasakKus, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 200 pp. $29.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9780197764879 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-10 Jorge Díaz‐Lanchas
Conflicts of Interest The author declares no conflicts of interest.
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More Policies, More Work? An Epidemiological Assessment of Accumulating Implementation Stress in the Context of German Pension Policy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-09 Christian Adam
Research on policy accumulation established the hypothesis about a creeping divergence between implementation burdens and implementation capacity. This paper revisits this hypothesis using improved measures of implementation burden. Using official data on administration and enforcement costs, it finds that policy accumulation does raise implementation stress within the German Statutory Pension Insurance
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Assessing Input Legitimacy of Occupational Pensions in Europe Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-28 Thomas Mayer, Tobias Wiß
As private asset‐based welfare like funded occupational pension schemes gain importance, legitimacy concerns arise due to financial market downturns and low investment returns. This paper assesses their input legitimacy by distinguishing between individual‐direct and collective‐representative input possibilities in decision‐making processes. We argue that individual‐direct input possibilities decrease
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Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-19 Robert A. Kagan
This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance. It also describes my ventures into the cross‐national comparison of legal and regulatory institutions and the political
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Analysis of Institutional Design of European Union Cyber Incident and Crisis Management as a Complex Public Good Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-09 Mazaher Kianpour, Christopher Frantz
Effective cyber incident response and crisis management increasingly relies on the coordination of relevant actors at supranational levels. A polycentric governance structure is one of the institutional arrangements that can promote active participation of involved actors, an aspect decisive for the rapid and effective response to cyber incidents and crises. This research aims to dissect whether, and
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The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-30 Ainsley Elbra, Erin O'Brien, Martijn Boersma
Large, listed companies are under increasing pressure to respond to critical issues such as climate change, modern slavery, and the protection of First Nations' heritage. Much of this pressure is exerted by civil society actors through corporate governance mechanisms, including leveraging shareholder rights to lobby firms. At the heart of this process sit largely understudied actors, proxy advisors
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Issue Information Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-11
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Core funding and the performance of international organizations: Evidence from UNDP projects Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Mirko Heinzel, Bernhard Reinsberg, Giuseppe Zaccaria
Scholarship on the administration of international organizations (IOs) has extensively discussed how autonomy influences their performance. While some argue that autonomy increases performance through greater adaptability, others warn that it may increase the risk of agency slack. Authors typically distinguish between three types of performance: output, outcome, and impact performance. We focus on
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Historical Foundations of Green Developmental Policies: Divergent Trajectories in United States and France Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Ritwick Ghosh, Stephanie Barral, Fanny Guillet
In recent years, many countries have adopted biodiversity offset policies to internalize the ecological impacts of land developments. Although national policies share the general principle of equalizing ecological harm with gain, there is substantial variation across programs regarding the institutional forms governing offsetting. In this paper, we compare biodiversity governance in the United States
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Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Ida Marie Nyland Jensen
How can polycentric governance promote the development of ecosocial policies within existing policy systems? Through a study of green reforms of Danish vocational education, the paper argues that polycentric governance institutions are particularly useful at engaging constituent actors in innovation and constructive collaboration over reforming education programs to integrate ecological goals into
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Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Balazs Bodo, Primavera de Filippi
Trust is a key resource in financial transactions. Traditional financial institutions, and novel blockchain‐based decentralized financial (DeFi) services rely on fundamentally different sources of trust and confidence. The former relies on heavy regulation, trusted intermediaries, clear rules (and restrictions) on market competition, and long‐standing informal expectations on what banks and other financial
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Informal governance and transnational access in world politics Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Theresa Squatrito, Thomas Sommerer
The governance turn in political research has led to increased attention to informal institutions. For scholars of international relations this has contributed to recent scholarship that reveals a notable growth in the number of informal intergovernmental organizations (IIGOs). Many aspects of IIGOs remain unknown, including whether they involve transnational actors (TNAs). Yet, whether IIGOs are open
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Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock-ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Milan Babić, Daniel Mertens
How can decarbonization governance endure under increasing geoeconomic distress? Global tensions threaten to divert financial and political resources from the green transition toward national security issues. However, we lack the analytical tools to assess decarbonization governance in this age of global rivalries. To address this gap, we develop an analytical framework to study the effects of geoeconomic
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Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Jonathan Zeitlin, David Bokhorst, Edgars Eihmanis
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) adopted in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic marks an important departure in European Union (EU) governance, as it introduces an innovative “demand‐driven, performance‐based” model aimed at overcoming the limitations of past policies seeking to promote national reforms. In this study, we set out the theoretical assumptions underlying the RRF governance model
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Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Eric Alston
In large and complex human groups, social rules reduce individuals' uncertainty about their own choice set, including through these rules' simultaneous influence on the choice set of other individuals. But uncertainty varies as to the extent to which it is knowable and quantifiable ex ante. Therefore, different classes of social rules deal with the future uncertainty of individuals' conduct in structurally
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Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Tim Bartley, Malcolm Fairbrother
As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generis and have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make industrial operations greener. In this paper, we consider what can be learned from other shifts away from polluting substances. Drawing on literatures on corporate regulatory strategies and evolving regulatory interactions, we argue for a
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Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Jason Webb Yackee, Susan Webb Yackee
Scholars of the US regulatory process routinely assert that rulemaking is “ossified”—that it has become so encumbered with procedural constraints that it is difficult for agencies to issue socially desirable regulations. Yet, this claim has rarely been subject to empirical testing, and this is particularly true at the sub‐federal (i.e., US state) level. But the same factors that allegedly cause ossification
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Digitalization and the green transition: Different challenges, same policy responses? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Marius R. Busemeyer, Sophia Stutzmann, Tobias Tober
How do citizens perceive labor market risks related to digitalization and the green transition, and how do these risk perceptions translate into preferences for social policies? We address these questions in this paper by studying the policy preferences of individual workers on how governments should deal with the two labor market challenges of digitalization and the green transition. Employing novel
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To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse, Vytautas Kuokštis, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Vytenis Cipinys, Matti Ylönen
A regulatory sandbox is an emerging tool for addressing the challenges posed by the FinTech industry, but countries have embraced it to varying degrees. There is a need to systematically examine the question: Which factors explain the diverging trajectories in countries' decision to use (or not use) this instrument? This paper examines the adoption of regulatory sandboxes for FinTech in the Baltic
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Self‐enforcing path dependent trajectories? A comparison of the implementation of the EU energy packages in Germany and the Netherlands Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Simon Fink, Eva Ruffing, Luisa Maschlanka, Hermann Lüken genannt Klaßen
Since the 1990s, the EU has attempted to create a common electricity market. However, EU legislators are unsatisfied by the results. We argue that differentiated implementation of directives over time creates path dependencies that entrench national differences. The actor constellation of parties and incumbent operators at the beginning of the liberalization path determines how well countries implement
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From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Hanna Schwander, Jonas Fischer
This article reviews recent insights from the blooming Comparative Political Economy (CPE) literature on climate change with the aim to demonstrate the importance of integrating climate change into the field of CPE and to highlight the contributions of CPE to our understanding of the social and political obstacles to effective climate policies. In addition, we advance two key points to bring the CPE
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Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Libby Maman, Lauren Fahy, Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen, Moritz Kappler
Citizen trust in regulatory agencies is essential for the functioning of society and markets. Trust in regulatory agencies promotes compliance and strengthens trust in regulated sectors. Despite its importance, there is no systematic study on how trust is in this context can be measured best. In response, this article presents findings of a systematic review of measures of trust in regulatory contexts
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Navigating financial cycles: Economic growth, bureaucratic autonomy, and regulatory governance in emerging markets Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 M. Kerem Coban, Fulya Apaydin
Political decisions over economic growth policies influence the degree of bureaucratic autonomy and regulatory governance dynamics. Yet, our understanding of these processes in the Global South is somewhat limited. The article studies the post-Global Financial Crisis period and relies on elite interviews and secondary sources from Turkey. It problematizes how an economic growth model dependent on foreign
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Trusting organizational law Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Shawn Bayern
Decentralized governance technologies like blockchains are often proposed as substitutes for private legal arrangements like those provided by company law or organizational law more generally. In established legal systems in developed countries, the costs of implementing such algorithmic mechanisms are likely to be greater than the agency or other costs that come from selecting and trusting an existing
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Trust platforms: The digitalization of corporate governance and the transformation of trust in polycentric space Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Larry Catá Backer
This contribution considers the revolution in the concept and practice of trust in corporate governance that first moved from trust in “people” to trust in “compliance,” setting the stage for the digitization of trust measures and the digitalization of compliance. Part One examines the fundamental challenge, one that arises from the near simultaneous shift in cultural expectations about trust from
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From de jure to de facto transparency: Analyzing the compliance gap in light of freedom of information laws Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Julia Trautendorfer, Lisa Hohensinn, Dennis Hilgers
Freedom of information (FOI) laws empower citizens to access public information from public organizations, enhancing government transparency and accountability. Previous studies have evaluated government transparency and FOI compliance based on the proactive release of information and governments' responses to citizens' requests. This study extends prior research by focusing on regulatory compliance
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Mapping the relationship between regulation and innovation from an interdisciplinary perspective: A critical systematic review of the literature Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Flavia Donadelli
A considerable amount of work has focused on “regulatory innovation” in the social sciences. This scholarship has conceptually defined certain types of regulatory changes as innovations and explored how regulation, as a policy instrument, alters the pace of technological innovation. More recently, a renewed interest for policy mixes and more dynamism in industrial innovation policies around the world
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Issue Information Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-11
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