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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：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：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：Woods, Neal D.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Well-known theories suggest that administrative procedures may be used as mechanisms of political control of the bureaucracy. This study investigates whether three common regulatory analysis procedurescost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and economic impact analysislead to greater influence by political officials on bureaucratic policymaking. Multivariate analyses of data from a unique survey of state administrators indicate that regulatory analysis requirements are associated with decrease...
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作者：Eckert, Sandra
作者单位：Goethe University Frankfurt
摘要：Independent regulatory authorities hold comprehensive policy mandates that cover both economic and social goals. They take on various roles in market regulation, competition policy, consumer protection, and labor inspection. This article questions whether policymakers are driven by different rationales when delegating the realization of social, as opposed to economic goals, and analyzes how regulators accommodate their various roles in practice. The conceptual framework links the literature on...
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作者：Boussalis, Constantine; Feldman, Yuval; Smith, Henry E.
作者单位：Trinity College Dublin; Bar Ilan University; Harvard University
摘要：Legal directives - whether laws, regulations, or contractual provisions - can be written along a spectrum of specificity, about which behavioral and legal scholarship present conflicting views. We hypothesized that the combination of specificity and monitoring promotes compliance but harms performance and trust, whereas the combination of specificity and good faith enhances both the informative goal-setting aspects of specificity and people's sense of commitment. To test these hypotheses, we u...
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作者：Perez Duran, Ixchel
摘要：This article examines the decision to include interest group representation (IGR) in the most important decisionmaking bodies of European Union agencies (EAs). The study shows that there is considerable variation among agencies: some agencies have no IGR, others have formal rules that establish a clear distribution of the number of representatives among stakeholders, while other agencies are ambiguous with regard to the number of representatives that each group should have. In addition, intere...
