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作者：Owen, Dave
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Francisco
摘要：Most accounts of businesses and regulators depict adversarial relationships. In these accounts, businesses typically seek to avoid or limit public regulation or, alternatively, to distort it so it serves private rather than public ends. This article uses a study of the environmental consulting industry to explore a different set of relationships between businesses and public regulation. These consultants generally work for for-profit companies, and they serve as regulatory intermediaries betwe...
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作者：Lederer, Markus; Hoehne, Chris
作者单位：Technical University of Darmstadt
摘要：Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is one of the most advanced global climate governance arrangements and we show that it contributes to the buildup of autonomous capacities and reliable procedures in areas of rather limited statehood. These partially unintended effects can be conceptualized as an increasing rational-legal bureaucratization, which has been initiated through both external and domestic actors as we illuminate in the case of Indonesia's forestry ...
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作者：Charron, Nicholas; Harring, Niklas; Lapuente, Victor
作者单位：University of Gothenburg
摘要：For many social scientists, government intervention is linked to low levels of social trust and corruption, while others associate it with high trust and low corruption. We aim to reconcile these contrasting views by distinguishing the opposing effects of trust on two alternative types of government intervention: regulation and redistribution. We argue that distrusting individuals demand more governmental regulation (H1) but less government redistribution (H2), and this could be one of the mec...
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作者：Nyrerod, Theo; Spagnolo, Giancarlo
摘要：Whistleblower rewards have been used extensively in the United States to limit procurement fraud and tax evasion, and since the financial crisis their use has been extended to fight financial fraud. There is currently debate over their introduction in Europe, but authorities there appear considerably less enthusiastic than their American counterparts. While it is important that these tools are scrutinized in a lively democratic debate, much has been written - even by important institutional pl...
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作者：Herr, Trey
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：In the last half decade, cyber insurance has emerged as a multi-billion-dollar industry with the authority to set and enforce standards of security behavior. Although cybersecurity has become a concern of national policymakers, insurers appear to have supplanted the state to play an influential role in governing some aspects of client behavior. This paper explores private governance by cyber insurance firms and evaluates two competing explanations for its emergence - either that the private se...
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作者：Ozel, Isik D.; Unan, Asli
作者单位：University of London; King's College London
摘要：Global diffusion of regulatory reforms in telecommunications has prevailed in many countries, engendering major institutional changes and entailing the establishment and/or reform of regulatory agencies. Although the triggers and timing of such agentification processes have been more or less similar, agency independence displays significant cross-country variation. Seeking to explain such variation based on a sample incorporating middle-income countries (MICs), this paper examines the impact o...
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作者：Shur-Ofry, Michal; Malcai, Ofer
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Institutions for collective action (ICAs), comprising individuals that informally organize to manage collective resources, have gained recognition as a significant means of informal governance of common resources alongside the more formal schemes of privatization and top-down regulation. Using the case study of community gardens, this article locates ICAs within the broader phenomenon of self-organization in complex systems, and inquires whether ICAs exhibit dynamics of social contagion and di...
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作者：Bolognesi, Thomas; Pflieger, Geraldine
作者单位：University of Geneva; University of Geneva
摘要：Performance reporting in sunshine regulation is subjected to disclosure biases, because agents may game the regulation or encounter difficulties in complying. These biases limit the appraisal of the impact of sunshine regulation on performance. We investigate the behavioral causes of such disclosure biases by focusing on transaction cost economizing and opportunism. We provide an original methodology to take into account information asymmetries in principal-agent relationships. We focus on wat...
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作者：Clegg, Liam; Farstad, Fay
作者单位：University of York - UK
摘要：Regulatory governance involves the use of heterogeneous mechanisms to extract welfare gains from market-based processes. While often viewed as a depoliticization mechanism, here, we explore a distinctly political manifestation of regulatory governance. Our study focuses on the governance of affordable housing in England, specifically on local authorities' use of 'Section 106 ' (S106) powers to compel private developers to include affordable housing in new developments. We show that, following ...
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作者：Cartwright, Madison
作者单位：Laval University; University of Sydney
摘要：The internet industry has emerged as an important economic and political actor, both within the United States and internationally. Internet companies depend on exceptions from copyright law in order to operate. As a result, internet companies have considerable incentive to try and influence international copyright law. However, the current literature has neglected the role of the internet industry, instead focusing on the influence of copyright owning media companies. This has largely homogeni...
