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作者：Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Malandrino, Anna; Di Mascio, Fabrizio
作者单位：University of Naples L'Orientale; University of Turin
摘要：This paper examines whether e-procurement adoption is associated with procedural competition and transparency, two core components of procurement integrity. Using award-level microdata for Italian regional contracting authorities (2019-2023), we analyze a period preceding the legal obligation of full-cycle digital procurement, when the use of e-procurement tools remained discretionary across authorities. We construct three procedure-level indicators-notice-to-deadline length, single bidding, a...
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作者：Ford, Cristie
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness-honesty, competence, and reliability-rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation. The article situates this conception of regulatory trustworthiness within liberal democratic rule-of-law commitments to equal respect, fairness, and ac...
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作者：Diaz, Jana Gomez; Pikos, Anna; Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg; Guaschino, Edoardo
作者单位：University of Konstanz; Kozminski University; University of Lausanne; University of Geneva
摘要：This article investigates the formation of stakeholders' trust in regulatory agencies, as the extent to which contact frequency and sentiment of media coverage are related to different types of stakeholders' trust. Based upon original survey data from diverse stakeholders, and media coverage from 2015 to 2020 of agencies in the food safety, financial regulation, and data protection sectors across seven countries, the analysis suggests that media coverage rather than contact frequency is import...
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作者：Dalen, Par
作者单位：Stockholm University
摘要：This comparative study spanning more than two decades examines how corporatist institutions shape the distribution of environmental tax revenue between producers and consumers. Environmental taxes have become a key policy instrument for addressing climate change and other environmental problems, but their effectiveness and political viability likely depend on how these taxes are collected and distributed. We develop two competing theoretical perspectives with opposing expectations: corporatist...
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作者：Cigna, Luca; Di Carlo, Donato; Durazzi, Niccolo
作者单位：Max Planck Society; European University Institute; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia; University of Edinburgh
摘要：The green transition is fundamentally transforming contemporary economies and societies. This article investigates how European models of capitalism perform and specialize across the green value chain-conceptualized as innovation, manufacturing, services, and deployment-and how national skill formation systems underpin these specializations. Integrating insights from comparative capitalism literatures with descriptive statistics and principal component analysis (PCA), we develop and test expec...
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作者：Koebis, Nils; Oded, Sharon; de Bruijn, Anne Leonore; Huang, Shuyu; van Rooij, Benjamin
作者单位：University of Duisburg Essen; Max Planck Society; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; University of Melbourne; University of Amsterdam; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Companies increasingly adopt internal norms to enhance compliance with legal rules. However, the rapid growth in volume and complexity of such internal rules may obstruct employee knowledge and understanding of such internal rules, and therefore also their compliance. The present study seeks to understand whether shorter and more accessible formats of internal company norms will yield better knowledge and understanding of such norms. The study consists of an extensive online field experiment r...
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作者：Brooks, Eleanor; Lauber, Kathrin
作者单位：University of Edinburgh
摘要：Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda-setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report. Using a social process tracing methodology, we analyze the removal from the agenda of provisions for stronger alcohol advertising rules during the revision of the EU's Audiovisual Media Services Dir...
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作者：Scire, Giovanni; Bivona, Enzo
作者单位：University of Palermo
摘要：Organized crime (OC) can influence firms through coercion, collusion, financial ties, and supply-chain relationships, yet these interactions remain underexamined in stakeholder theory. This article conceptualizes organized crime as an analytically relevant but non-normatively legitimate stakeholder and develops a risk-based framework combining stakeholder salience, interface channel, interest level, and influence strategy. The framework specifies when OC is likely to command managerial attenti...
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作者：Vikstedt, Elina; Penttila, Visa; Welinder, Olga; Vakkuri, Jarmo
作者单位：Tampere University; Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT; Lund University
摘要：Governance of sustainable development increasingly relies on voluntary standards and commitments, the credibility and effectiveness of which hinge on accountability-ensuring actors align with shared goals and follow through on them. However, voluntary initiatives operate outside traditional control structures and blend elements of state, market, and community governance. This study examines how accountability is constructed and practiced through the lens of accountability logics. Using Finland...
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作者：Shyrokykh, Karina; Eckert, Sandra; Olofsson, Kristin
作者单位：Stockholm University; University of Erlangen Nuremberg; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：We approach public communication of bureaucratic organizations as a means of reputation management and argue that social media communication that abstains from making reference to other agencies is in line with a turf-protective strategy, whereas communication that seeks to establish a link to other agencies is in line with a strategy to embrace new issues and expand policy competencies. Using climate policy communication by EU agencies on the social media platform Twitter (currently X), we sh...
