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作者：Gershgoren, Sagi; Cohen, Nissim
作者单位：University of Haifa
摘要：Unbiased conduct is an essential part of the social contract between the state and its citizens. Yet, when tasked with settling disputes between citizens and other state officials, are public administrators truly impartial in their resolutions? Such a question is vital for street-level bureaucrats whom the public perceives as the face of governance. This study investigates the relations between the pro-citizen tendencies in street-level bureaucrats' resolutions, their internal appealability, a...
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作者：Ciornei, Irina; Euchner, Eva-Maria; Preisner, Michalina; Yesil, Ilay
作者单位：University of Munich; University of Bern
摘要：This article makes important contributions to governance research by studying the implementation of policies with high potential for goal incongruence between intermediaries and regulators. Building on a regulatory intermediation framework and prevailing theories from organizational institutionalism, we propose an original typology that classifies intermediaries' strategies for coping with challenging regulations. Furthermore, we explain the choice of these strategies based on intermediaries' ...
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作者：Gustafsson, Maria-Therese; Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Lenschow, Andrea
作者单位：Stockholm University; University Osnabruck
摘要：In the recent past, European states have adopted mandatory due diligence (MDD) laws for holding companies accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of their supply chains. The institutionalization of the international due diligence norm into domestic legislation has, however, been highly contested. Our contribution analyzes the discursive struggles about the meaning of due diligence that have accompanied the institutionalization of MDD in Germany and France. Based on document ...
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作者：Rajavuori, Mikko; Savaresi, Annalisa; van Asselt, Harro
作者单位：University of Turku; University of Eastern Finland; University of Stirling; Utrecht University; University of Turku
摘要：The debate on corporate climate accountability has become increasingly prominent in recent years. Several countries, particularly in the Global North, have adopted mandatory human rights and/or environmental due diligence legislation. At the same time, judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings are helping to shape the contours of corporate climate accountability. This article considers how litigation against corporations and due diligence legislation interact, and thereby help develop and streng...
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作者：Robb, Lachlan; Candy, Trent; Deane, Felicity
作者单位：Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
摘要：Regulatory failure caused by overlapping regulations is ubiquitous, with examples in all jurisdictions across a range of disciplines. Overlapping regulation can be problematic. It obscures policy objectives and hinders the development of effective and clear regulation. In addition, regulatory overlap can inflict real costs on businesses through repetitive inspections and data collection efforts. It is particularly burdensome when agencies issue conflicting rules with inconsistent standards. Re...
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作者：Mason, Michael; Partzsch, Lena; Kramarz, Teresa
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Free University of Berlin; University of Toronto
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作者：Moberg, Linda; Fredriksson, Mio; Leijon, Karin
作者单位：Uppsala University; Uppsala University
摘要：This article analyzes whether, and if so, why, national inspectorates adopt different enforcement strategies when controlling the provision of welfare services, such as health care, eldercare, and the compulsory school. The findings show that the Swedish Schools Inspectorate uses a predominantly strict strategy, while the Health and Social Care Inspectorate relies on a more situational strategy. To explain this variation in enforcement strategy, the article tests four hypotheses derived from t...
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作者：Dehbi, Fatimazahra; Martin-Ortega, Olga
作者单位：University of Greenwich; University of Greenwich
摘要：Ten years since the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, we have witnessed an increasing trend in Europe toward the adoption of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. Focusing on due diligence legislation from France, Germany, Norway, and the EU, this article examines the extent to which these laws are laying the foundations for the articulation of an integrated, comprehensive, and robust framework that effectively fosters corporate accountabilit...
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作者：Schoeneich, Svenja; Saulich, Christina; Mueller, Melanie
摘要：Industrialized economies in the EU depend heavily on imports of minerals. The extraction and parts of the transport and processing of these minerals take place in the Global South and often bear high human rights and environmental risks. A lack of traceability in mineral supply chains makes it particularly difficult to hold companies accountable for negative environmental and social impacts of their operations and those of their suppliers. This paper analyses three mineral supply chains (coppe...
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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....
