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作者：Smismans, Stijn; Minto, Rachel
作者单位：Cardiff University
摘要：This article assesses the utility of impact assessments (IAs) as an effective tool for mainstreaming. Specifically, it analyses whether the European Union's (EU's) system of integrated impact assessments (IIAs) contributes to the realization of six mainstreaming objectives defined in the EU treaties. The article first studies whether the legal framework for the EU's system of IIAs makes it a viable tool for mainstreaming. It then proceeds with an empirical analysis of 35 IAs to assess the exte...
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作者：Koop, Christel; Lodge, Martin
作者单位：University of London; King's College London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：The concept of regulation is believed to suffer from a lack of shared understanding. Yet the maturation of the field raises the question whether this conclusion is still valid. By taking a new methodological approach toward this question of conceptual consolidation, this study assesses how regulation is conceived in the most cited articles in six social science disciplines. Four main conclusions are drawn. First, there is a remarkable absence of explicit definitions. Second, the scope of the c...
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作者：Young, Kevin; Pagliari, Stefano
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：While organized business is a key actor in regulatory politics, its influence is often conditional on the level of unity or conflict occurring within the business community at any given time. Most contemporary regulatory policy interventions put pressure on the normal mechanisms of business unity, as they are highly targeted and sector-specific. This raises the question of how business unity operates across a highly variegated economic terrain in which costs are asymmetric and free-riding ince...
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作者：Carolina Garriga, Ana
作者单位：Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas A.C. (CIDE)
摘要：This article explores the effect of delays in updating prudential regulation on the likelihood of a country experiencing banking crises, and it disentangles the impact of different aspects of regulation on crisis onset. I argue that delays in revision to banks' prudential regulation allow banks to adopt risky behavior, which increases a country's vulnerability to systemic banking crises. This effect, however, is conditional on the level of liberalization of the financial market. At lower level...
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作者：Carter, David P.
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：The complexity of decentralized regulatory contexts can threaten program fidelity, particularly if it results in divergence between program goals and the intents of regulatory inspectors. This paper investigates how inspectors negotiate the conflicting demands of a decentralized program by examining how they perceive their regulatory roles - the primary responsibilities that inspectors ascribe to their functions and the entities to which they feel responsible - and how these role orientations ...
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作者：Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：The attention of practitioners and scholars of private regulation of working conditions is focused on whether and how corporate buyers can help improve labor and safety standards in the factories that supply them by adopting codes of conduct, joining social certification schemes, participating in social audit processes, and financing safety improvements. I argue that more attention should be paid to the possibility that private regulation schemes - whatever degree of compliance they achieve - ...
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作者：Ang, Yuen Yuen
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：The study of public administration in developing countries requires that we look beyond the Weberian model as the only ideal type of bureaucracy. When we assume that there exists only one gold standard of public administration, all other organizational forms that do not conform to the Weberian ideal are dismissed as corrupt or failed. Drawing on neo-institutional economics, I introduce an alternative ideal type of bureaucracy found in contemporary China. This model, which I call bureau-franchi...
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作者：Mathieu, Emmanuelle; Verhoest, Koen; Matthys, Joery
作者单位：University of Antwerp; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：As regulation increasingly results from the interplay of a wide array of different actors operating at different levels, it has become crucial to focus on how these constellations of regulatory actors operate. Although this research field presents huge potential for theoretical development, we still lack the measurement techniques to allow systematic comparative research. We contribute to filling this gap with four indices measuring crucial characteristics of multi-actor regulatory arrangement...
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作者：Fernandez-Gutierrez, Marcos; James, Oliver; Jilke, Sebastian
作者单位：Universidad de Cantabria; University of Exeter; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：Regulatory reforms to public infrastructure services across European Union (EU) countries were aimed at increasing consumer welfare by introducing competition and choice into service markets. However, empirical evaluations have questioned whether these reforms have benefitted all consumers, suggesting that vulnerable groups of service users (especially those with lower levels of formal education), might be locked into poorly performing services. We assess the relationship between the level of ...
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作者：Amengual, Matthew; Coslovsky, Salo; Yang, Duanyi
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); New York University
摘要：Competing accounts of the effect of globalization on labor politics agree that firms influence regulations, but make contrasting predictions for which firms are most likely to oppose regulations. Using survey data from employers in 19,000 manufacturing firms in 82 developing countries, we examine the determinants of employers' opinions toward labor regulation. In contrast to the predictions of optimistic theories of globalization, we find that (i) firms that export are more likely to have nega...
