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作者：Braithwaite, John; Braithwaite, Valerie
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：This special issue demonstrates that regulatory studies and criminology both have virtue. Regulatory criminology has neglected virtues that exceed the sum of its parts. The editors did a splendid job of pointing out in their introduction that criminology created a number of theoretical traditions that have had moments of passing value and relevance to regulatory studies. In both fields, and at their intersections, one of these traditions, an economism of rational choice, even enjoyed periods o...
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作者：Nilsson, Joakim; Nistotskaya, Marina
作者单位：Aarhus University; University of Gothenburg
摘要：Laws often contain linguistically complex features that increase cognitive processing demands and weaken comprehension. We extend this argument to bureaucratic decision-making by proposing that reduced legal clarity decreases the consistency of administrative decisions. We test this argument using an online survey experiment with nearly 900 current and former government officials from 33 countries, who were randomly assigned to adjudicate a real administrative case under either a less-clear or...
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作者：Tumer, Elif Korkmaz; Guclu, Mehmet
作者单位：Ege University
摘要：International environmental agreements are key instruments for addressing transboundary environmental problems, but treaty ratification remains uneven and clustered across countries despite the proliferation of multilateral treaties. While existing research has concentrated largely on domestic political-economic determinants, less is known about the role of cross-national interdependence and strategic interactions in the ratification of treaties. To address this gap, we present a comprehensive...
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作者：Cecot, Caroline; Hahn, Robert W.; Imamoglu, Eslem
作者单位：George Washington University; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Oxford; Georgetown University
摘要：Policy makers are showing increased interest in understanding the impacts of public policies on subgroups of the population. We provide the first cross-regional comparison of distributional analyses by examining 907 benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union from 2016 through 2020. In these regions, we find almost no quantification of net benefits for a population subgroup (2 US BCAs, 0 UK BCAs, and 1 EU BCA). Distributional weights were also ...
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作者：Casillas, Samantha Ortiz
作者单位：Universidade Nova de Lisboa
摘要：Regulatory review-assessing the legality, use of evidence, and correct calculation of costs and benefits in regulations before they are enacted-is a core function of regulatory oversight bodies. In principle, reviewing aims to improve the effectiveness of regulations through economic rationality, tools, and methods. In practice, the work of oversight bodies occurs amid the politics of the rulemaking process and can be a way for the executive to control the regulatory agenda. Based on a 13-mont...
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作者：Joltreau, Thibaut
摘要：Why do states subsidize unprofitable industries? This paper applies the Programmatic Action Framework and adapts it to neocorporatist settings to uncover the political determinants of industrial policies. Empirically, it explores how a longstanding coalition of economic, administrative and political actors has maintained public funding for the sugarcane agro-industry in French overseas departments, despite new policy objectives for agricultural diversification and subsidy reallocation. Drawing...
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作者：Hale, Thomas; Lecavalier, Emma; Mertens, Claas; Gupta, Bhavya; Wetzer, Thom
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：When and how do international standards influence domestic policies? The literature identifies a range of ways international standards may relate to domestic regulations-including by exporting, substituting, supplanting, or bolstering national rules-creating theoretical ambiguity. This article focuses, in particular, on whether, when, and how standards can help generate regulatory outcomes that are more rigorous than would otherwise be expected, given a jurisdiction's political economy. We def...
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作者：Simpson, Sally S.; van Rooij, Benjamin
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Amsterdam; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：The field of regulation and governance has strong roots in criminological research. Foundational ideas about regulatory enforcement styles, root causes of compliance, and nongovernmental approaches to regulation and its enforcement have originated in criminological research. Over the last decades, however, criminology has been less explicitly present in the study of regulatory governance. This article, as an introduction to a special issue on the topic, discusses key theories, findings, and de...
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作者：Rangoni, Bernardo; Levi-Faur, David; Verhoest, Koen
作者单位：University of York - UK; University of Antwerp; University of Antwerp; European University Institute; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Despite growing interest in, and the increasing importance of, trust in regulatory governance and the regulatory state, we are still missing a systematic discussion of their interaction. This leads to conceptual ambiguities, disparate language for similar phenomena, and scholars talking past each other. This paper fosters clarity and systematization for a cumulative knowledge-building trajectory. We propose a multi-layered framework, which begins with a genealogy that traces how and when trust...
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作者：Zgaga, Tiziano; Thomann, Eva
作者单位：University of Konstanz
摘要：Even if member states formally comply with EU law, the 'ideal type' of literal compliance, where EU rules are compliantly transposed without customizing their density or restrictiveness, is both rare and improbable. Why do EU member states engage in literal compliance in the 'least likely' case of the EU's Fiscal Compact, where customized transposition is crucial for member states to 'regain control' over a core state power? Why do external pressures for uniformity trump or reinforce internal ...
