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• Incentivizing self-regulation: Federal vs. state-level voluntary programs in US climate change policies AI翻译
  作者：Hsueh, Lily; Prakash, Aseem
  作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
  摘要：How does program sponsorship influence the design of voluntary programs? Why and how do voluntary programs on climate change sponsored by the state and federal governments in the United States vary in their institutional design? Scholars emphasize the signaling role of voluntary programs to outside stakeholders, and the excludable benefits that induce firms to take on non-trivial costs of joining voluntary programs. Scholars have noted several types of benefits, particularly reputational benef...
• Regulating the Internet infrastructure: A comparative appraisal of the legitimacy of ICANN, ITU, and the WSIS AI翻译
  作者：Take, Ingo
  作者单位：University of Gottingen
  摘要：How to generate legitimate forms of governance beyond the nation state is often considered a central question in contemporary world politics. To proceed in theory-building, scholars need to systematically assign the theory-driven assumptions on legitimate forms of governance beyond the nation state with the various, already observable, forms of global governance. This article aims to conduct a comparative appraisal of the legitimatory quality of different patterns of governance by applying a f...
• Market making via regulation: The role of the state in carbon markets AI翻译
  作者：Lederer, Markus
  作者单位：Technical University of Darmstadt
  摘要：Proponents as well as critics of carbon trading underestimate the institutional and political underpinnings of evolving carbon markets. Based on institutionalist approaches, this paper argues that the strong embeddedness of carbon markets explains why certain characteristics (positive and negative) materialize. Focusing on the actors who initiate and who influence carbon markets, this article also shows that currently only states and intergovernmental agreements provide the necessary regulatio...
• Regulatory policy outputs and impacts: Exploring a complex relationship AI翻译
  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 ...