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作者:Buch-Hansen, Hubert
作者单位:Copenhagen Business School
摘要:This article aims to explain the broader evolution of British merger control. To this end it outlines a novel critical political economy perspective on regulation and regulatory change which differs from established political economy approaches, such as the regulatory capitalism/state perspectives, in three main ways: it places regulatory ideas at the heart of the analysis, it differentiates between different degrees of regulatory change, and it links regulatory change in delineated issue area...
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作者:Ozel, Isik
作者单位:Sabanci University
摘要:This essay explores the rise and decline of regulatory independence in Turkey. Framing the ongoing process of limiting independence of these agencies as the politics of de-delegation, it raises the question of why Turkish regulatory agencies have become subject to increasing political intervention. Contending that institutional legacies and mounting illiberal predispositions of the Turkish state facilitate the politics of de-delegation, the essay focuses on centralization, executive discretion...
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作者:Fossum, John Erik
作者单位:University of Oslo
摘要:This article critically engages with Sabel and Zeitlin's important notion of experimentalist governance (EG). It is cast as a recursive process of provisional goal-setting and revision based on learning from the comparison of alternative approaches to advancing them in different contexts. This is a useful heuristic device to capture policymaking and implementation in complex, dynamic, and highly diverse political entities. This article discusses the micro-foundations underpinning EG, how it re...
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作者:Knill, Christoph; Schulze, Kai; Tosun, Jale
作者单位:University of Konstanz
摘要:In this article, we pursue the objective of empirically testing the extent to which changes in environmental policy outputs can explain changes in environmental impacts. Previously, systematic testing of this relationship was hampered by the lack of a compelling measurement of changes in regulatory policy outputs. To remedy this, we present a novel approach to the measurement of events of regulatory output change. We illustrate our concept by employing data on changes in clean air regulations ...