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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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Problem exposure and problem solving: The impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated sectors Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Yue Guo, Tianhao Zhai, Hao Huang, Luozhong Wang
A wealth of studies has discussed the impact of different regulatory regimes on firms, but have ignored the differences in citizens' attitudes toward firms in different regulatory regimes. Exploring these attitudes is crucial to understanding the micro‐effects of regulatory regimes and market developments. This study aims to investigates the impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated
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Policy growth and maintenance in comparative perspective Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Christoph Knill, Christina Steinbacher, Yves Steinebach, Philipp Trein
Policy growth comes with multiple challenges for policy implementation. Congested policy portfolios increase the likelihood of interactions and contradictions between different policy objectives and instruments. Moreover, policy growth can lead to difficulties during implementation when many public and private organizations must cooperate and manage increasing complexity and overlapping responsibilities
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The governing instruments for resilience in the neo-Weberian state: The challenge of integrating Ukrainian war refugees Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Andrej Christian Lindholst, Kurt Klaudi Klausen, Morten Balle Hansen, Peter Sørensen
The unsettling conditions of contemporary society, marked by recurrent transboundary crises and turbulence, stimulate discussions about the resilience of different governing models. Public bureaucracy and its governing instruments are confronted with the virtues and vices of models dominated by markets and networks. We present a case study demonstrating how the governing instruments within a system
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Patterns of company misconduct, recidivism, and complaint resolution delays: A temporal analysis of UK pharmaceutical industry self‐regulation within the European context Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Shai Mulinari, Dylan Pashley, Piotr Ozieranski
Interfirm self‐regulation through trade associations is common but its effectiveness is debated and likely varies by time, country, and industry. This study examines self‐regulation of pharmaceutical marketing, characterized by delegation of major regulatory responsibilities to trade associations' self‐regulatory bodies. In addressing critical research gaps, this study first analyzes 1,776 complaints
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Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Damion Jonathan Bunders, Tine De Moor
Worker cooperatives in the gig economy can involve large and heterogeneous memberships, which makes them vulnerable to member opportunism depleting collective resources. External shocks may present another challenge for collective resource management. This raises the question of how heterogeneous cooperatives design rules to mitigate opportunistic behavior and whether these rules evolve in the face
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The voice of implementation: Exploring the link between street-level integration and sectoral policy outcomes Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Christina Steinbacher
Ineffective policies plague democratic systems and challenge their legitimacy. While existing research highlights the importance of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) as de facto “policymakers,” our understanding of SLBs' aggregate effects on policy outcomes remains limited. Therefore, this paper proposes a shift in perspective, redirecting attention from the micro level toward institutional structures
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Regulatory agency reputation acquisition: A Q Methodology analysis of the views of agency employees Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Lauren A. Fahy, Erik-Hans Klijn, Judith van Erp
This article reports findings of a Q Methodology study in which we explored the opinions of employees from eight Dutch regulatory agencies on how agencies gain their reputation. This is the largest study to date examining employee's views on the relative importance of different factors in reputation acquisition by public organizations, and the first analyzing employees in regulatory agencies. Results
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Mapping bureaucratic overload: Dynamics and drivers in media coverage across three European countries Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Alexa Lenz, Yves Steinebach, Mattia Casula
Bureaucratic overburdening has emerged as an important theme in public policy and administration research. The concept signifies a state where public administrators are overwhelmed with more tasks and responsibilities than they can effectively handle. Researchers attribute this phenomenon to several key factors, such as an increasing assault on the public sector, a growing volume of policies to enforce
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How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good-faith trust Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Koen Verhoest, Martino Maggetti, Edoardo Guaschino, Jan Wynen
Trust is expected to play a vital role in regulatory regimes. However, how trust affects the performance and legitimacy of these regimes is poorly understood. Our study examines how the interplay of trust and distrust relationships among and toward political, administrative, and regulatory actors shapes perceptions of performance and legitimacy. Drawing on cross-country survey data measuring trust
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Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Susanne Hadorn, Fritz Sager
Cooperative forms of policy implementation bear the promise of being an answer to the policy delivery challenge resulting from policy growth, with the quality of network management often rated as a key success factor. The positive relationship between network management and performance in networks, however, is primarily supported by theoretical reasoning rather than empirical evidence. The present
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Governance transference and shifting capacities and expectations in multi‐stakeholder initiatives Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Johanna Järvelä
The governing attributes of authority, legitimacy, and accountability are essential to any type of governance to be able to function effectively. For public forms of governing, the attributes are part of the structures and institutions of democratic states, for example, through the tripartition of power, voting, and legal structures. For private forms of governance, such as multi‐stakeholder initiatives
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Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Andreas Kruck, Moritz Weiss
Making security has been Leviathan's home turf and its prime responsibility. Yet, while security states in advanced democracies share this uniform purpose, there is vast variation in how they legitimize and how they make security policies. First, the political authority of elected policy‐makers is sometimes superseded by the epistemic authority of experts. Second, states make security, in some instances
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The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–1914 Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Perri 6, Eva Heims
How does regulatory statehood develop from the regulatory work which governments have always done? This article challenges conventional views that regulatory statehood is achieved by transition to arm's length agencies and that it replaces court-based enforcement or displaces legislatures in favor of less accountable executive power. To do so, we examine the major 19th-century surge in development
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Unraveling how intermediary-beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Cynthia L. Michel
As a result of policy growth, implementing agencies often face new mandates without the necessary capacity expansion to comply with, thus resorting to intermediaries. However, intermediaries are not innocuous to the implementation process, especially when they are expected to play the double role of target and intermediary, responsible for translating/interpreting regulation for beneficiaries. How
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Why data about people are so hard to govern Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Wendy H. Wong, Jamie Duncan, David A. Lake
How data on individuals are gathered, analyzed, and stored remains largely ungoverned at both domestic and global levels. We address the unique governance problem posed by digital data to provide a framework for understanding why data governance remains elusive. Data are easily transferable and replicable, making them a useful tool. But this characteristic creates massive governance problems for all
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Deceptive choice architecture and behavioral audits: A principles‐based approach Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Stuart Mills
Regulators are increasingly concerned about deceptive, online choice architecture, including dark patterns and behavioral sludge. From a behavioral science perspective, fostering a regulatory environment which reduces the economic harm caused by deceptive designs, while safeguarding the benefits of well‐meaning behavioral insights, is essential. This article argues for a principles‐based approach and
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Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Bert de Graaff, Suzanne Rutz, Annemiek Stoopendaal, Hester van de Bovenkamp
The literature on responsive regulation argues that citizens should be involved in regulatory practices to avoid capture between regulator and regulatee. It also argues that including citizens can add an important perspective to regulatory practices. However, we know little about how citizens' perspectives are brought into regulatory practices. This paper draws on existing qualitative research to compare
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Unofficial intermediation in the regulatory governance of hazardous chemicals Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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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Affidavit aversion: Public preferences for trust-based policy instruments Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) 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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A resource-based perspective on the regulatory welfare state: Social security in the United Kingdom Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) 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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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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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 3.2) 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