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作者：Guye, Valentin; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Ermgassen, Erasmus Zu
作者单位：Universite de Montpellier; INRAE; Universite Catholique Louvain; Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
摘要：To address environmental and human rights issues in global commodity supply chains, governments increasingly require information from companies on their sourcing, as part of due-diligence regulations (DDRs). This shift towards accountability to the regulator rather than to the public calls into question the role left for public transparency. In this perspective piece, we argue that public transparency is actually complementary to DDRs-addressing their incomplete coverage of global supply chain...
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作者：Sorensen, Eva; Torfing, Jacob; Triantafillou, Peter
作者单位：Roskilde University
摘要：Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis-induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard. To compensate for this gap, this article defines robust legality, analyzes its conditions of emergence, reflects on the different forms it might take, and considers the prospects for advancing r...
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作者：Mandelli, Matteo; Domorenok, Ekaterina; Graziano, Paolo; Zimmermann, Katharina
作者单位：University of Padua; University of Hamburg
摘要：In recent years, research on the integration between social and ecological policies has significantly expanded, highlighting the multiple ways in which these two domains interact. Concepts such as just transition and sustainable welfare have gained prominence as normative frameworks capturing these interconnections. However, despite the increasing scholarly attention, several important theoretical, conceptual, and empirical gaps remain, particularly regarding how social and ecological spheres ...
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作者：Sieffert, Claire Penty
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Accountability infrastructures' spread may give the impression that organizations are embracing accountability. Yet accountability professionals continue to encounter defensive reactions from those they are holding accountable. How do they navigate these reactions? Looking at the case of professionals in independent accountability mechanisms-grievance mechanisms at development finance institutions-this article identifies one approach: normalizing defensive reactions. Normalization is an emotio...
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作者：Ralston, Rob; Hawkins, Ben
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; University of Cambridge
摘要：The regulation of business is increasingly characterized by soft governance regimes that blur the boundaries of public and private authority, as signaled by the rapid proliferation of multistakeholder initiatives in global governance. This article explores how the spread of multistakeholderism creates opportunities for new forms of strategic action, enabling actors to participate in multiple fora, successively or simultaneously in order to pursue a particular agenda. The article focuses on mul...
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作者：Chambers, Dustin; O'Reilly, Colin
作者单位：University System of Maryland; Salisbury University; Creighton University
摘要：Regulation can influence economic dynamism, the distribution of income, and various measures of economic welfare. Despite a substantial proportion of regulation in the United States originating at the state level, we are not aware of any comprehensive measure of excess regulation or red tape at the state level. We fill this notable gap by constructing a novel measure of state-level red tape based on the State RegData dataset. The red tape index measures the excess stringency of regulation in e...
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作者：Parvanova, Iva; Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina
作者单位：Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要：This paper examines whether government favoritism in public procurement generates negative social costs, even within redistributive institutional frameworks such as the European Union. Rather than relying on perception-based corruption indicators, we employ an objective proxy of corruption risk-the share of awarded public contracts which received only one bid. This measure captures non-competitive allocation and mitigates reverse causality concerns. Using static and dynamic fixed effects panel...
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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...
