Regulation AND Governance

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• Which and Whose Rules Rule? Chinese Agribusinesses and the Challenge of Compliance in Rural Tajikistan AI翻译
  作者：Hofman, Irna
  作者单位：University of Oxford
  摘要：Chinese investments in Tajikistan have significantly increased since the early 2010s. In rural Tajikistan, Chinese companies make up the majority of foreign investors. However, Tajikistan's rural landscape is no easy terrain for foreigners. It is characterized by legal complexity, namely weak regulatory capacity, as well various elites' unofficial requirements. What does compliance mean in such a setting, and how do Chinese companies navigate this environment? Engaging with the literature on c...
• The Rise of Investor-Driven Climate Governance: From Myth to Institution? AI翻译
  作者：Kaplan, Rami; Levy, David L.
  作者单位：Tel Aviv University; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston
  摘要：Investor-driven climate governance (ICG) is premised on mobilizing finance to address climate change by leveraging investors to pressure companies to reduce emissions. Examining the rapid growth of ICG from an institutional political economy perspective, we argue that powerful financial and regulatory actors with varied interests coalesced to promote the discourse that climate risks equal financial risks, and to develop a finance-centered mechanism of climate governance. The flourishing field ...
• The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region AI翻译
  作者：Leopold, Franziska; Blum, Bianca; Schroeder, Dominik
  作者单位：University of Freiburg; University of Freiburg
  摘要：Against the background of the European decarbonization strategy, this study examines the extent to which the expansion of renewable energies can lead to tensions with the social and ecological dimensions of the sustainability concept. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 66 experts conducted in the trinational metropolitan region of the Upper Rhine in Germany, France, and Switzerland. Following a description of the status-quo in each country, a public choice analysis is used to id...
• More Than One Agent? Authority Expansion and Delegation Dynamics in the EU AI翻译
  作者：Ershova, Anastasia
  作者单位：Queens University Belfast
  摘要：Recent studies focus on the issue of authority transfer to supranational institutions. While examining the opportunities and obstacles for expanding the Union's competencies, this literature often overlooks the effects of adopting ambitious policies on their implementation modes. This paper argues that the costs associated with the expansion of EU authority and opportunities for blame-shifting drive delegation choices and define the relative discretion granted to agents. Proposals for expandin...
• Why Do Eastern African Countries Comply With OECD Tax Norms? How Network Effects Shape Policy Transfer in Anti-Profit Shifting Governance AI翻译
  作者：Vet, Cassandra; Yihdego, Abebe Gebrehiwot
  作者单位：University of Antwerp
  摘要：Widespread investments in OECD-style transfer-pricing audits across Sub-Saharan Africa stand in contrast to critiques that question the effectiveness and legitimacy of the OECD transfer pricing guidelines. Our process tracing design aims to explain why Sub-Saharan countries comply with OECD transfer-pricing guidelines by tracing why some African countries implement transfer-pricing audits while others do not. By comparing Kenya's, Uganda's, and Rwanda's compliance with Ethiopia's mock complian...
• Chain Reactions: How Businesses Plan to Respond to the EU Deforestation Regulation in Brazil, the Congo Basin, and Europe AI翻译
  作者：Cramm, Mathias; Ziegert, Rafaella Ferraz; Berning, Laila; Uwiringiyimana, Hassina; Schulz, Dario; Shidiki, Abubakar; Zanguim, Herman; Wunder, Sven; Borner, Jan; Azevedo-Ramos, Claudia; Tegegne, Yitagesu Tekle; Sotirov, Metodi
  作者单位：University of Bonn; University of Freiburg; Universite de Dschang; University of Bonn; University of Bonn; Universidade Federal do Para
  摘要：The 2023 European Union Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR) is a transnational regulation aimed at addressing forest loss along the value chains of forest-risk commodities. Grounding our analysis in new institutional theory with distinct behavioral drivers explaining actor behavior, and using qualitative methods, we draw on the cases of Brazil, the Congo Basin, and the EU to understand the behavior of forestry and agricultural sector businesses in response to the EUDR. We find the...
• The Goldilocks Effect: How the Just Right Writing Styles of Global Corporate Responsibility Frameworks Shapes Their Use by Businesses AI翻译
  作者：Chalmers, Adam William; Klingler-Vidra, Robyn
  作者单位：University of Edinburgh; University of London; King's College London
  摘要：The 21st century has witnessed a surge in the number of global corporate responsibility (GCR) frameworks issued by international organizations (IOs). Our study investigates whether and to what extent these frameworks shape businesses' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) communications. Integrating insights from computational linguistics, we propose that the textual characteristics of GCR frameworks, mainly how they are written, play a crucial role in determining their use by businesses. Usin...
• Re-Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy AI翻译
  作者：Bonoli, Giuliano; Emmenegger, Patrick; Felder-Stindt, Alina
  作者单位：University of Lausanne; University of St Gallen
  摘要：European economies face the task of providing the necessary skills for the twin transition in a period of skill shortage. As a result, we may expect countries to reorient their labor market policy towards re-skilling. We look for evidence of a reorientation in two relevant policy fields: active labor market policy (ALMP) and adult education (AE). We explore general trends in both fields based on quantitative indicators and compare recent policy developments in four countries with strong ALMP a...
• Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks AI翻译
  作者：Braun, Benjamin; Duesterhoeft, Maximilian
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：In contrast to the quiet politics of the pre-2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become noisy. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them? Central banks provide an interesting case because while they are self-professed adherents to communicative transparency, individual case studies have documented their use of strategic silence as a defense mechanism against politicization. This paper prov...
• The Local Politics of Social Investment Under Fiscal Constraints: The Case of Childcare Expansion in Germany AI翻译
  作者：Neimanns, Erik; Bremer, Bjoern
  作者单位：Max Planck Society
  摘要：Governments in many of the advanced economies expanded childcare, an exemplary social investment policy, in recent years. Yet, considerable regional variation exists in expansion efforts, and often the supply of childcare still does not match demand. We explore the politics of this regional variation by studying Germany, a country that recently introduced a legal entitlement to childcare. Despite this legal entitlement, we argue that local political and economic factors (continue to) matter fo...