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作者：Wang, Raymond Yu; Liu, Tao; Dang, Heping
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; Peking University; Peking University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：This paper attempts to bridge critical institutionalism and fragmented authoritarianism in China. Moving beyond the predictive functionalist perspective and the overemphasis on state primacy, the paper focuses on how top-down water policies are exercised by local agencies, collective communities, and individuals at the county level and below. Through a case of irrigation management in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, this paper posits that institutional bricolage and fragmentation are pr...
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作者：Lim, Sijeong; Duit, Andreas
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Stockholm University
摘要：Building on the burgeoning literature on the association between the welfare state and the environmental state, this study empirically examines how the politics of the former has affected the development of the latter. We suggest that the size of the welfare state shapes the calculus of environmental policy costs by partisan governments. A generous welfare state lowers the costs perceived by the left-wing government, as large redistributive spending allows the government to mitigate the advers...
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作者：Almond, Paul; Esbester, Mike
作者单位：University of Reading; University of Portsmouth
摘要：The regulation of conduct via law is a key mechanism through which broader social meanings are negotiated and expressed. The use of regulatory tools to bring about desired outcomes reflects existing social and political understandings of institutional legitimacy, the meanings attached to regulation, and the values it seeks to advance. But these contextual understandings are not static, and their evolution poses challenges for regulators, particularly when they reflect political framing process...
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作者：Bar-Siman-Tov, Ittai
作者单位：Bar Ilan University
摘要：This article presents the findings of an extensive multi-method empirical study that explored the relationship between temporary legislation, better regulation, and experimentalist governance. Temporary (or sunset) legislation - statutory provisions enacted for a limited time and set to expire unless their validity is extended - is often hailed as a key tool for promoting experimental and better regulation. Despite the importance of temporary legislation and the burgeoning theoretical scholars...
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作者：Henriksen, Lasse Folke; Ponte, Stefano
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：This article contributes to current debates on the potential and limitations of transnational environmental governance, addressing in particular the issue of how private and public regulation compete and/or reinforce each other - and with what results. One of the most influential approaches to emerge in recent years has been that of orchestration. But while recent discussions have focused on a narrow interpretation of orchestration as intermediation, we argue that there is analytical traction ...
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作者：Hong, Seung-Hun; You, Jong-sung
作者单位：Australian National University; Australian National University
摘要：Responsiveness and accountability constitute the process of democratic representation, reinforcing each other. Responsiveness asks elected representatives to adopt policies ex ante preferred by citizens, while accountability consists of the people's ex post sanctioning of the representatives based on policy outcomes. However, the regulatory literature tends to interpret responsiveness narrowly between a regulator and regulatees: the regulator is responsive to regulatees' compliance without con...
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作者：Weinshall, Keren; Sommer, Udi; Ritov, Ya'acov
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Columbia University; Tel Aviv University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：A key influence on governance and regulation is the ideology of individual decisionmakers. However, certain branches of government - such as courts - while wielding wide ranging regulatory powers, are expected to do so with no attitudinal influence. We posit a dynamic response model to investigate attitudinal behavior in different national courts. Our ideological scores are estimated based on probability models that formalize the assumption that judicial decisions consist of ideological, strat...
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作者：Pena, Alejandro Milciades
作者单位：University of York - UK
摘要：Why do private governance initiatives trigger greater participation in one country than another? This article examines the domestic dimension of transnational regulation through a case study of private sustainability governance in Argentina. Drawing from theories of contentious politics, the argument poses that the resonance of transnational private governance is shaped by the semantic compatibility of incoming sustainability programs against national political culture. Analyzing the limited p...
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作者：Green, Jessica F.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Non-state actors - including firms, non-governmental organizations, and networks - are now a permanent fixture in environmental politics. However, we know surprisingly little about when states choose to delegate to non-state actors through multilateral treaties. This paper provides an historical picture, tracing patterns of delegation to non-state agents in a random sample of multilateral environmental agreements from 1902 to 2002. I introduce a new unit of analysis - the policy function - to ...
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作者：Cranor, Carl F.; Finkel, Adam M.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Pennsylvania; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Regulatory agencies in the United States and Europe have well-deserved reputations for fixating on the total benefits and costs of proposed and final regulatory actions, without doing any more than anecdotally mentioning the subpopulations and individuals who may bear disproportionate costs or reap disproportionate benefits. This is especially true on the cost side of the cost-benefit ledger, where analysts exert little effort to even inform decisionmakers and the public that the costs of regu...
