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作者：Nakamura, Ayako
摘要：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 2012, focusing on two key safety indicators: self-harm and violence. Our findings reveal that p...
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作者：Bulfone, Fabio; Ergen, Timur; Maggor, Erez
作者单位：Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
摘要：Conditionality was a central concern in the development literature of the 1990s. With the significant expansion of targeted public support to private firms since the Great Financial Crisis, the issue of conditionality has once again become a focal point in industrial policy debates. Despite the growing interest in the concept, the existing literature lacks a systematic conceptualization of conditionality within the context of industrial policy and does not outline the political factors that en...
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作者：Kreiczer-Levy, Shelly
作者单位：College of Law & Business
摘要：How should the law regulate the use and management of a resource in market activity? The resource can be perceived as an entitlement, granting market participants veto power over its use and management. Alternatively, market participants can be protected as consumers with rules focusing on disclosure, repair, and safety. The two alternative protections reflect different ways of regulating the economic power of large corporate actors in the market. Property law grants individual control over th...
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作者：Erie, Matthew S.; Bodurtha, Molly; Young, Sokphea
作者单位：University of Oxford; Columbia University; University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：In conventional understandings of compliance, lawyers and compliance officers internalize compliance within corporations. Complicating this model, this article argues that compliance professionals may occupy a Janus-faced role between informality and formality. We use the case of legal brokers of Chinese investment in Cambodia as our empirical testing ground. Based on qualitative fieldwork conducted in Cambodia from 2019 to 2022, we find that legal brokers between Chinese investors and Cambodi...
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作者：Chesterfield, Alexandra M.; Reader, Tom W.; Gillespie, Alex
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：In established democracies, the threat of regulatory capture-often implicated in major crises-is usually less about financial mechanisms like bribery and more about the subtle social processes of cultural capture. But how exactly is cultural capture defined, theorized, and assessed, and what are its underlying mechanisms, manifestations, and impact? This article presents a systematic review (n = 39) of cultural capture, identifying 7 descriptions and 10 mechanisms. We consolidate these into fi...
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作者：Erie, Matthew S.
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Much of scholarly writing on compliance is derived from the experiences of Western multi-national corporations operating in developed economies. This introduction to the special issue China in Compliance departs from such convention by asking how compliance works in China. By broadening the scope of compliance studies to include non-Western contexts, including China and its relationship to the Global South and nondemocratic settings, the special issue breaks new ground in the empirical analysi...
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作者：Driessen, Miriam
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Over the past three decades, a growing number of Chinese enterprises have entered Ethiopia's construction and manufacturing sectors as contractors and investors. While adapting to a new regulatory environment, many of these companies have faced administrative challenges and accusations of noncompliance, some of which have been brought to court. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article shows how and why Ethiopian lawyers employed by Chinese firms have become critical to cultivating compli...
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作者：Mayer, Thomas; Wiss, Tobias
作者单位：Johannes Kepler University Linz
摘要：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 while collective-representative input possibilities increase with occupational pensions' comp...
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作者：Cremer, Julia C.
作者单位：University of Hamburg
摘要：In response to the interconnected ecological and social crises, there is growing interest in the integration of climate and social policy, both in academic discourse and in public debate. While the European Union has begun to address both dimensions jointly through the European Green Deal (EGD), it remains institutionally separate at the national level. Non-state actors on both levels are increasingly engaged in debates about the social consequences of climate change and related policies. Draw...
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作者：Lindh, Arvid; Nelson, Kenneth
作者单位：Stockholm University; University of Oxford
摘要：Many climate change mitigation policies face public opposition, especially when they impose visible costs on households and are perceived as unfairly regressive. This country-comparative study examines specific social policy instruments that may help build public support for increasing fossil fuel taxes in Europe. Using multilevel modeling with data from the European Social Survey and the Social Policy Indicators database, we find that higher levels of means-tested social assistance are positi...
