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作者：Zeitlin, Jonathan; van der Duin, David; Kuhn, Theresa; Weimer, Maria; Jensen, Martin Dybdahl
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Ghent University; University of Amsterdam; University of Amsterdam
摘要：Do governance reforms affect public acceptance of regulatory decisions, and if so, how? We tackled this critical but under-studied question through a pair of linked survey experiments on public attitudes toward the reform of European Union (EU) pesticides regulation among a representative sample of the adult population in six EU member states. We tested the expectation that citizens are more likely to accept a regulatory decision that runs counter to their prior policy preferences if it is tak...
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作者：von Nordheim, Fritz; Kvist, Jon
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：The likelihood that longevity will continue to increase has generated a search for regulation that make people work longer as they live longer, and thus not just containing pension expenditure but also enlarging labor supply, economic growth, and tax revenue. In public pension policy, Nordic countries have led the world with three types of approaches aimed at making people retire later. The first came when Sweden, followed by Finland and Norway, installed life expectancy coefficients in benefi...
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作者：Mathieu, Emmanuelle
作者单位：University of Lausanne
摘要：The diffusion of independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) in utilities sectors in developing countries is underpinned by the idea that IRAs are highly effective institutional devices to signal policy credibility to private investors. But is it really so? Institutional economists tend to confirm the effectiveness of IRAs, while also highlighting the many factors that condition its positive impact on investments. Acknowledging the importance of interaction effects, this paper proposes to shift the...
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作者：Guttel, Ehud; Harel, Alon; Procaccia, Yuval
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Reichman University
摘要：Among the major decisions any legal system must make is deciding whether to establish general courts with broad jurisdiction, or specialized courts with limited jurisdiction. Under one influential argument-advanced by both judges and legal theorists-general courts foster coherence within the legal system. This Article identifies a distinct effect of establishing general courts: the complementarity effect. In the case of complementarity, general courts strategically apply different principles i...
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作者：Ilsoe, Anna; Soderqvist, Carl Fredrik
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; Blekinge Institute Technology
摘要：The entry of gig-platforms to labor markets world-wide has caused significant frictions with national institutions and regulators, including trade unions. In this article, we compare the interactions between taxi and food delivery platforms with the industrial relations (IR) systems of Denmark and Sweden, where we observe isolated instances of unions striking collective agreements with platforms. We assess and compare platform strategies and interactions with IR system agents, using an RIT-fra...
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作者：Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina
作者单位：Hertie School
摘要：Despite the salience of transparency in policy and democracy debates a global measurement of transparency has always been missing. It its absence, measuring the impact of transparency on accountability and corruption for a large number of countries has been difficult, with scholars using more or less adequate proxies. This paper introduces a new measurement of real transparency-the T-index-using 14 de facto components, based on direct observations of official websites in 129 countries and five...
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作者：Weihrauch, David; Carodenuto, Sophia; Leipold, Sina
作者单位：University of Freiburg; University of Victoria; Helmholtz Association; Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ); Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
摘要：Following a long-standing and highly contested policy debate, in June 2021, the German parliament passed the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act requiring mandatory due diligence (MDD) of large companies, holding them accountable for the impacts of their supply chain operations abroad. Applying the discursive agency approach and using evidence from policy documents and 21 interviews with key stakeholders, we analyze the political strategies that paved the way toward MDD in Germany. The decisive str...
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作者：Thiemann, Matthias; Stellinga, Bart
摘要：Implementing precautionary measures that have obvious distributional consequences today but often only invisible future benefits is politically difficult. It requires that policymakers reconcile technocratic expertise with political consent. This paper traces attempts to enact such measures, focusing on countercyclical policies to limit the systemic risks of housing booms as proposed by financial stability committees in Germany, France, and the Netherlands from 2015 onwards. These committees b...
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作者：Boon, Jan
作者单位：Hasselt University; University of Antwerp; Hasselt University
摘要：Reputation scholars in the field of regulation tend to focus on the strategic nature-or: agency-of reputation management. We know fairly little about the precise nature of the dynamics and conflicts between structural and agential factors that are experienced by regulators in practice, and how these dynamics impact reputation management and its outcomes. This study addresses these questions, using conceptual language from the strategic-relational approach to study the reputation management of ...
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作者：Aronson, Ori; Elad-Strenger, Julia; Kessler, Thomas; Feldman, Yuval
作者单位：Bar Ilan University; Bar Ilan University; Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
摘要：Public legitimation of legal decisionmaking can be promoted through various strategies. We examine strategies of legitimation that are premised on personalizing the public image of legal agents. A personalized public administration emphasizes individual decisionmakers and seeks legitimacy through familiarity with the character, identity, and virtues of individual agents, whereas a non-personalized public administration projects an ethos of technocratic decisionmaking, seeking legitimacy throug...
