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作者：Shaffer, Sherrill; Shogren, Jason
作者单位：University of Wyoming
摘要：Contests over the scope and strength of regulation and governance are commonplace - and commonly repeated. The same players vie for the same government prize year after year: for example, environmental standards, government contracts, research grants, and public good provision. The open question is whether more rents are dissipated in repeated regulatory contests than onetime competitions. This question matters for regulation and governance because societies should design policies to waste the...
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作者：Baldwin, Robert
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Emissions trading is the governmentally promoted hope for a sustainable world. In different contexts, trading regimes display varying potential-both in absolute terms and in comparison with other regulatory instruments. Emissions trading, however, is a device that raises urgent issues regarding its objectives, cost-effectiveness, fairness, transparency, and legitimacy. Its use places emphasis on its acceptability and the virtues of regulation that is lite because it is non-threatening to the m...
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作者：Marx, Axel
作者单位：Universite Catholique Louvain
摘要：Non-state market regulation has become a central focus and continues to receive scholarly attention. The present paper provides an assessment of the conditions under which multinational firms join a multi-stakeholder certification initiative. The cases of the Fair labor Association and 17 international sport footwear companies have been selected for this purpose. A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of the 17 cases is performed. The paper argues that the combination of sustained NGO pressure and...
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作者：Feldman, Yuval; Lobel, Orly
作者单位：University of San Diego; Bar Ilan University
摘要：Social enforcement, the decentralized action by organizational actors of monitoring, identifying, and reporting legal violations, is widely recognized as a key factor in ensuring good governance. This article reports on an experimental survey conducted in the US and Israel examining the behavior of individuals when confronting workplace unlawful conduct. The study provides novel insights into the relationships between state based, organization based, and employee based enforcement. It finds th...
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作者：Black, Julia
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC); University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：The legitimacy and accountability of polycentric regulatory regimes, particularly at the transnational level, has been severely criticized, and the search is on to find ways in which they can be enhanced. This paper argues that before developing even more proposals, we need to pay far greater attention to the dynamics of accountability and legitimacy relationships, and to how those in regulatory regimes respond to them. The article thus first seeks to develop a closer analysis of three key ele...
