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作者：Wansleben, Leon
作者单位：Max Planck Society
摘要：Monetary policy and financial regulation have been regarded one of the paradigmatic domains where states can reap the benefits of delegating clearly delineated and unequivocal policy tasks to specialized technocrats. This article discusses the negative side-effects and unintended consequences of particular ways to partition such tasks. The separation between monetary policy formulation, central banks' money market management, and financial supervision has weakened policy makers' capacities to ...
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作者：Bagozzi, Benjamin E.; Berliner, Daniel; Almquist, Zack W.
作者单位：University of Delaware; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Methods for the analysis of big data on citizen-government interactions are necessary for theoretical assessments of bureaucratic responsiveness. Such big data methods also stand to benefit practitioners' abilities to monitor and improve these emerging transparency mechanisms. We consider supervised latent Dirichlet allocation (sLDA) as a potential method for these purposes. To this end, we use sLDA to examine the Mexican government's (non)responsiveness to all public information requests file...
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作者：Eriksen, Andreas
作者单位：University of Oslo
摘要：Despite that independent agencies are typically justified in terms of technical efficiency, they inevitably have to make political judgments. How can political reasoning be legitimate in such institutions? This paper starts by investigating the merits of two prominent models. The avoidance model asks agency reasoning to stick to empirical facts and as far as possible stay clear of political values. By contrast, the specification model recognizes the need for constructive normative work, but co...
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作者：van der Heijden, Jeroen
作者单位：Victoria University Wellington; Australian National University
摘要：This article is an introduction to meta-research, a systematic and replicable process of synthesizing research findings across a body of original research. After introducing the reader to the core of meta-research methodology, meta-research logic and tools are applied to present an evidence synthesis of empirical research on responsive regulation. The article concludes with a meta-research agenda for regulation and governance scholarship, and five key lessons from the empirical responsive regu...
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作者：Evenett, Simon J.
作者单位：University of St Gallen; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK
摘要：I examine the ways in which the global financial crisis that began in 2007, and whose effects arguably condition policymaking to the present day, affected the ongoing global power transition as manifested by the unilateral decisions undertaken by official agencies comprising national regulatory states. The theory of that power transition articulated in the overview paper of this Special Issue is reinterpreted to take into account the circumstances of that crisis. Empirical evidence on the prop...
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作者：Hanegraaff, Marcel; Poletti, Arlo
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; University of Trento
摘要：Numerous empirical studies suggest that global interest communities are heavily biased in favor of wealthier countries. This research note critically reviews these works suggesting that they (i) lack a benchmark to assess the biased nature of global interest communities and (ii) conflate the concepts of wealth (based on GDP per capita) and economic power (based on GDP) into one analytical category. As a corrective to these problems, we compare variation in global interest group mobilization ac...
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作者：Krizic, Ivo
作者单位：University of Geneva
摘要：Since the 1990s, emerging economies such as Brazil, India, and China have adopted transparency-enhancing public procurement regulations in line with international norms. Yet they have hesitated to join the World Trade Organization's legally binding Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Based on the Special Issue framework, this article scrutinizes the underlying domestic and international determinants, and how they influence emerging countries' positions in two overlapping international proc...
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作者：Goyal, Nihit; Howlett, Michael; Taeihagh, Araz
作者单位：Delft University of Technology; Simon Fraser University; National University of Singapore
摘要：Why and how the regulation of emerging technologies occurs is not clear in the literature. In this study, we adapt the multiple streams framework - often used for explaining agenda-setting and policy adoption - to examine the phenomenon. We hypothesize how technological change affects policy-making and identify conditions under which the streams can be (de-)coupled. We trace the formulation of the General Data Protection Regulation to show that the regulation occupied the legislative agenda wh...
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作者：Badenhoop, Elisabeth
作者单位：Max Planck Society
摘要：Surveillance studies have long argued that electronic databases are designed to maximize state surveillance as a superpanopticon or surveillant assemblage. But how are databases being implemented in practice, and do they actually enhance control? This article addresses these questions by examining the case of the German Central Foreigners Register (Auslanderzentralregister[AZR]). Established in 1953, the AZR was one of the first databases on migrants in the western liberal world, and remains a...
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作者：Bovens, Mark; Wille, Anchrit
作者单位：Utrecht University; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：Independent oversight institutions are critical components of the accountability landscape in modern democracies. This paper presents a framework for assessing the accountability powers of these watchdogs. This watchdog accountability index is an empirical tool to assess the key accountability powers of accountability forums that operate in a democratic constitutional context. The aim is to provide a richer evidence base to assess evolving external accountability arrangements and their effecti...
