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作者：Phillips, Jake
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：This article examines how probation inspectors in England and Wales construct their self-legitimacy; the internal belief in their moral and professional right to inspect. Drawing on qualitative interviews and Bottoms and Tankebe's dialogic model of legitimacy, it shows how inspectors justify their authority through legal mandates, professional expertise, methodological rigor, and a commitment to public service. In the absence of coercive powers, inspectors rely on what this article conceptuali...
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作者：Haslberger, Matthias; Bajka, Scherwin M.
作者单位：University of St Gallen
摘要：Education equips individuals with valuable skills to protect them against employment risks associated with the digital transition. As scholars debate whether vocational education and training (VET) or general education better insures against technology-induced employment risk, we ask how this type of risk, as perceived by individuals, shapes their education preferences. Our analyses, based on a survey of over 11,500 respondents across seven European countries, show that VET is regarded as a sa...
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作者：Kovacs, Oliver; Domonkos, Endre
作者单位：Ludovika University of Public Service; Budapest University of Economics & Business (BUEB)
摘要：This paper proposes a transdisciplinary approach to design future degrowth-oriented industrial policies in pursuing a well-being economy in the case of a specific growth model. Specifically, we show that the case of the Visegrad countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, V4s) is a clarion call for the degrowth literature to be much more modest and self-critical. It addresses the puzzling question of whether the future degrowth policies of the V4s are influenced by their unique industria...
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作者：Fazekas, Mihaly; Veljanov, Zdravko; Abdou, Aly
摘要：The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented surge in spending to combat the pandemic with widespread accusations of corruption. The magnitude, drivers, and trajectory of corruption across the pandemic response remain underexplored. This paper approximates the impacts of the pandemic on public procurement corruption risks and the mechanisms underpinning their persistence and diffusion. Administrative data on all high-value, regulated government tenders across Europe from 2016 to 2023 are anal...
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作者：Pircher, Brigitte
作者单位：Sodertorn University
摘要：Non-majoritarian institutions are designed to depoliticize policymaking and enhance the credibility of regulatory decisions. Yet many such bodies have become sites of contestation, exposing the limits of technocratic insulation. While research highlights external and behavioral drivers of politicization, the role of institutional design features in shaping this process remains underexplored. This article develops the concept of design-based politicization to explain how structural features int...
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作者：Panagiotopoulos, Panos; Bowen, Frances
作者单位：University of London; Queen Mary University London; University of Essex
摘要：Regulators increasingly rely on public information disclosure to influence organizational behaviors. Prior research is mixed on the effects of information-based instruments in an environment of abundant online information. The study applies a behavioral perspective to examine how regulatory ratings shape the responses of regulated entities by serving as carriers of attention. We present evidence based on a natural experiment arising from regulatory changes in the United Kingdom and a dataset o...
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作者：Beetsma, R.; Nicoli, F.
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Copenhagen Business School; Polytechnic University of Turin; Ghent University
摘要：During and following the Covid-19 pandemic, the European Union (EU) is taking first steps toward a European Health Union (EHU). There is no set definition of what an EHU is, but in this paper, we explore the popular support for different designs of an EHU, including a pillar in which healthcare policy competences are shared between the EU and national governments, a risk-sharing, and a redistributive pillar among countries. The analysis draws on two conjoint experiments in which respondents ar...
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作者：Gibbs, Carole; Chan, Fiona; Boratto, Rachel; Hug, Tyler
作者单位：Michigan State University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Recent literature calls for scholars to bridge the divide that has emerged between criminology and regulation and governance. In the current work, we propose that criminological opportunity theories provide one fruitful pathway to that end. Specifically, we introduce the notion of regulatory guardianship based on the concepts of guardians, guardian capability, and guardian willingness to intervene, and connect them to the regulation and governance literature. We demonstrate the utility of this...
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作者：Kus, Basak; Jackson, Gregory
作者单位：Wesleyan University; Free University of Berlin
摘要：Although political economy (PE) has long engaged with environmental issues, climate change has remained at the margins of the field until very recently. This article argues that fully addressing the transformative challenges brought up by climate change requires a fundamental rethinking of core PE concepts related to the state, distributional struggles, economic growth, varieties of capitalism, and markets. Rather than treating the state as a neutral regulator or market facilitator, we concept...
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作者：Laksevics, Karlis; Brizga, Janis; Mamut, Pia; Kreinin, Halliki; Fuchs, Doris; Belousa, Inga
作者单位：University of Latvia; Wageningen University & Research; University of Munster
摘要：Bridging the gap between welfare and climate policies is essential for simultaneously pursuing increased well-being and reduced carbon emissions. This study uses a policy Delphi approach, involving experts and stakeholders from five European countries: Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Spain, and Sweden, to assess the perceived desirability and feasibility of six eco-social policies for enabling 1.5 degrees C lifestyles. The results show that eco-social policies are challenged by current growth and wo...
