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作者：Balla, Steven J.; Xie, Zhoudan
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：The notice and comment process, in which government organizations make public draft laws and regulations and solicit feedback on these proposals, is a prominent governance reform in contemporary China. This article examines the durability of notice and comment policymaking by conducting a pair of audits of the practices of dozens of central government ministries and provincial governments. There are a number of reasons to expect that it is difficult to sustain governance reforms in China. Neve...
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作者：Johnson, Walter G.
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：Regulatory sandboxes have become the latest development in regulatory reform, starting first in financial regulation and now expanding to other sectors. While sandboxes offer notable potential benefits for managing emerging technologies, achieving desirable policy outcomes with this novel regulatory instrument also comes with technical and political challenges. This article offers a framework to characterize regulatory sandboxes in any sector, involving a blend of (1) approval regulation with ...
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作者：Gustafsson, Maria-Therese; Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Lenschow, Andrea
作者单位：Stockholm University; University Osnabruck; Stockholm University
摘要：In recent years, binding regulations in the home states of corporations have emerged mainly in the Global North with the aim of holding corporations accountable for human rights and environmental impacts throughout their supply chains. However, we still need a better understanding about to what extent such regulations contribute to enhance foreign corporate accountability (FCA). This article introduces a special issue that theorizes and empirically investigates foreign accountability dynamics....
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作者：de la Porte, Caroline; Larsen, Trine P.; Lundqvist, Asa
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Copenhagen; Lund University
摘要：This paper investigates the regulation of publicly organized early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Denmark and Sweden, through the regulatory welfare state (RWS) framework. The analysis focuses on how alterations in funding and quality of care are shaped by governmental and nongovernmental actors at national and local levels of government. Through focused structured analysis, we examine how various actors have shaped the funding and quality of childcare in Denmark and Sweden, from the e...
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作者：Hartley, Sarah; Kokotovich, Adam; McCalman, Caroline
作者单位：University of Exeter
摘要：Gene drive technology is a nascent biotechnology with the potential to purposefully alter or eliminate a species. There have been broad calls for engagement to inform gene drive governance. Over the past seven years, the gene drive community has been developing risk assessment guidelines to determine what form future gene drive risk assessments take, including whether and how they involve engagement. To explore who is developing these guidelines and how engagement in risk assessment is being p...
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作者：Christensen, Tom; Jensen, Mads Dagnis; Kluth, Michael; Kristinsson, Gunnar Helgi; Lynggaard, Kennet; Laegreid, Per; Niemikari, Risto; Pierre, Jon; Raunio, Tapio; Skulason, Gustaf Adolf
作者单位：University of Oslo; Copenhagen Business School; Roskilde University; University of Iceland; University of Bergen; Tampere University; University of Gothenburg
摘要：Government responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in the Nordic states-Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden-exhibit similarities and differences. This article investigates the extent to which crisis policymaking diverges from normal policymaking within the Nordic countries and whether variations between the countries are associated with the role of expertise and the level of politicization. Government responses are analyzed in terms of governance arrangements and regulatory instruments. F...
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作者：Wijen, Frank; Flowers, Mallory Elise
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of Rhode Island
摘要：Many voluntary sustainability standards govern opaque environmental and social issues, which are difficult to understand and address. Extant studies show mixed evidence around the effectiveness of such standards. We develop a theoretical framework that relates different degrees and types of opacity to standard effectiveness. Systemic opacity results from issues embedded in complex, diverse, and dynamic settings, whereas behavioral opacity stems from human challenges in interpreting and acting ...
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作者：Dafe, Florence; Engebretsen, Rebecca Elisabeth Husebye
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：As efforts to harmonize policies globally intensify, developing countries increasingly face pressures to adopt international standards. Yet, we know little about the circumstances under which developing countries manage to circumvent such pressures, or about their strategies to maintain policy space. We explore under which conditions developing countries are willing and able to sustain mock-compliance, a situation where countries comply on paper but not in practice. Using country comparisons o...
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作者：Berning, Laila; Sotirov, Metodi
作者单位：University of Freiburg
摘要：The European Union (EU) has recently introduced the Deforestation Regulation to close regulatory gaps in the sustainability and legality of global forest and agricultural commodity supply chains. We analyze this regulatory policy change by drawing on accountability scholarship and institutionalist theories of regulation. Our results show that the Regulation aims to enhance corporate accountability mechanisms through mostly state-based hard regulation of commodity supply chains, reducing the ro...
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作者：Levine-Schnur, Ronit
作者单位：Reichman University
摘要：A controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London (2005) which did not limit the use of state's eminent domain powers, led to an unprecedented legislative reaction by almost all 50 states. Of all, New York State stands out as one of the single states not to respond with a legislative amendment. In this study, I ask whether the state's predation was greater in the years following these legal and political developments, in light of the freedom which was granted to local p...
