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作者：Rantala, Kati; Alasuutari, Noora; Kuorikoski, Jaakko
作者单位：University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki; University of Helsinki
摘要：Agencies involved in generating regulatory policies promote evidence-based regulatory impact assessments (RIAs) to improve the predictability of regulation and develop informed policy. Here, we analyze the epistemic foundations of RIAs. We frame RIA as reasoning that connects various types of knowledge to inferences about the future. Drawing on Stephen Toulmin's model of argumentation, we situate deductive and inductive reasoning steps within a schema we call the impact argument. This approach...
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作者：Pfeffer, Elizabeth Gordon
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：This article addresses a key political question regarding the relationship between states and their citizens: how harsh are judicial systems in their punishment of those who deviate from the law? Punitiveness is a fraught concept in the existing literature and robust measurement methods maximizing conceptual complexity are lacking. Here I develop a functional approach to punitiveness through a revised conceptualization and operationalization of this key variable while cautioning against the so...
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作者：Prontera, Andrea; Rubino, Alessandro
作者单位：University of Macerata; Universita degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro; University of Macerata
摘要：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 the democratization of energy governance. We found that the diffusion of REAs is facilitated b...
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作者：Hinterleitner, Markus; Knill, Christoph; Steinebach, Yves
作者单位：University of Munich; University of Oslo; University of Munich
摘要：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, the policy state) and dominant measurement approaches. The second part provides an overview o...
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作者：Fichtner, Jan; Jaspert, Robin; Petry, Johannes
作者单位：Deutsche Bundesbank; Goethe University Frankfurt; Deutsche Bundesbank
摘要：Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) funds are among the fastest-growing investment styles. ESG investing thereby has a governing effect, and a key open question is whether ESG merely reduces risks for investors or whether it can have a sustainability impact and actively contribute to climate transition. This governance through ESG is characterized by three potential transmission mechanisms: ratings, shareholder engagement, and capital allocation. These can create sustainability impact ...
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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...
