-
作者：Marques, Jose Carlos; Eberlein, Burkard
作者单位：University of Ottawa; York University - Canada
摘要：Recent scholarship on transnational business governance has begun to examine public-private interactions and the active role of governments. We make two key contributions that integrate and expand this literature. First, in juxtaposition to functionalist accounts, we foreground the fundamentally political and often contentious character of these interactions. As private transnational governance schemes and standards hit the ground, private-public interactions, we argue, are embedded in nationa...
-
作者：Tzankova, Zdravka
作者单位：Vanderbilt University
摘要：Based on the inductive analysis of two parallel cases of private environmental governance - private, market-driven fisheries governance and private, market-driven governance for electricity decarbonization - this paper uncovers a trigger for positive public policy spillovers from private environmental governance. It identifies circumstances that prompt groups of business actors working as private regulators to also take on a role as public policy advocates and supporters, revealing a potential...
-
作者：Hirata, Ayako
作者单位：Okayama University
摘要：Street-level interpretation and enforcement are critical to defining the meaning of law. To understand street-level regulatory decisions, prior studies have highlighted internal office conditions, neglecting the influence that peer offices can have. This study examines the role of horizontal inter-office interaction among frontline offices and illustrates how and under what conditions it shapes the meaning of law. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative data on Japan's Soil Contamination Count...
-
作者：Downer, John; Ramana, M. V.
作者单位：University of Bristol; University of British Columbia
摘要：This paper explores the nature of expert knowledge-claims made about catastrophic reactor accidents and the processes through which they are produced. Using the contested approval of the AP1000 reactor by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as a case study and drawing on insights from the Science and Technology Studies (STS) literature, it finds that the epistemological foundations of safety assessments are counterintuitively distinct from most engineering endeavors. As a result, it arg...
-
作者：Kellerman, Miles
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：Public agencies outsource a wide variety of tasks to nonstate actors, or what can be referred to as regulatory intermediaries. In certain circumstances, these agencies may seek to disempower those regulatory intermediaries by reclaiming, duplicating, or transferring the outsourced task. When will these disempowerment attempts be successful? This article presents the Market Structure Hypothesis, which contends that the level of competition between regulatory intermediaries will, all things equa...
-
作者：Brass, Irina; Sowell, Jesse H.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Bush School of Government & Public Service
摘要：The Internet of Things (IoT) is a disruptive innovation known for its socio-economic potential, but also for generating unprecedented vulnerabilities and threats. As a dynamic sociotechnical system, the IoT comprises well-known cybersecurity risks and endemic uncertainties that arise as IoT adoption increases and the system evolves. We highlight the impact of these challenges by analyzing how insecure IoT devices pose threats to both consumer protection and the Internet's infrastructure. While...
-
作者：Renckens, Stefan
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Transnational private sustainability governance, such as eco-certification, does not operate in a regulatory or jurisdictional vacuum. A public authority may intervene in private governance for various reasons, including to improve private governance's efficient functioning or to assert public regulatory primacy. This article argues that to properly understand the nature of public-private governance interactions-whether more competitive or complementary-we need to disaggregate a public authori...
-
作者：Leitheiser, Erin
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：The international nature of supply chains has led to the rise of private authority in regulating the environmental and social impacts of production, which companies frequently address through corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the form of private governance (PG). Despite its claim to establish global rules, PG usually has national origins, and multiple efforts to address the same issue from different national perspectives frequently coexist. Numerous studies have explored the impact of n...
-
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...
-
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...
