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作者：Sommer, Udi; Parent, Jonathan; Li, Quan
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Le Moyne College
摘要：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 may involve national interest groups, whereby early in the pandemic a group quickly develop...
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作者：Bernot, Ausma
作者单位：Griffith University; Griffith University - Gold Coast Campus
摘要：Globally, China's Ministry of Public Security has one of the largest appetites and regulatory scopes for new technology use in policing. Using the case study of Police Cloud-a cloud infrastructure project, this paper examines a national wave of cloud migration initiated in Shandong in 2013. Police Cloud began to tackle the deep-rooted challenges of information sharing across all levels of government. The analysis draws upon a dual dataset of government documents (n = 10) and newspaper articles...
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作者：Tavares, Gustavo M.; Lima, Fabiana V.; Michener, Gregory
作者单位：Insper
摘要：Given weak protections for whistleblowers in Brazil - a country with over one million federal civil servants and a well-known history of corruption scandals - how common is whistleblowing? This study presents results from a survey completed by 652 federal civil servants in Brazil. Examining the incidence of wrongdoing, whistleblowing, and retaliation, as well as the role of gender and public service motivation (PSM), we find that women tend to report wrongdoing less often than men, are less wi...
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作者：Hilo-Merkovich, Rinat; Peer, Eyal; Feldman, Yuval
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Bar Ilan University
摘要：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 public preferences toward these instruments under different conditions and contexts. We fin...
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作者：Desai, Deval
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
摘要：What will the regulatory state of the South (RSoS) look like in the coming decade? This paper takes stock of contemporary practices of institutional reform in development, and their historical trajectory, to chart a possible pathway. Empirically, I identify a practical shift in development since the early-2000s. On one side are Washington Consensus practices that assume a non-reflexive relationship between people and institutions, meaning that people, in general, do not or should not reflect o...
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作者：Ruffing, Eva; Weinrich, Martin; Rittberger, Berthold; Wonka, Arndt
作者单位：University Osnabruck; University of Munich; University of Bremen
摘要：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 a new dataset covering the formal independence of all 39 EU agencies from 1975 to 2022. This lo...
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作者：Borrell, Joan-Ramon; Garcia, Carmen; Luis Jimenez, Juan
作者单位：University of Barcelona; University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
摘要：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 panel. As the political economy literature warned, we find that reforms paradoxically hav...
