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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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作者：Lenz, Alexa; Steinebach, Yves; Casula, Mattia
作者单位：University of Munich; Zeppelin University; University of Oslo; University of Bologna
摘要：Bureaucratic overburdening has emerged as an important theme in public policy and administration research. The concept signifies a state where public administrators are overwhelmed with more tasks and responsibilities than they can effectively handle. Researchers attribute this phenomenon to several key factors, such as an increasing assault on the public sector, a growing volume of policies to enforce, and external shocks. These studies converge on the perception that the public sector's capa...
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作者：Kruck, Andreas; Weiss, Moritz
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：Making security has been Leviathan's home turf and its prime responsibility. Yet, while security states in advanced democracies share this uniform purpose, there is vast variation in how they legitimize and how they make security policies. First, the political authority of elected policy-makers is sometimes superseded by the epistemic authority of experts. Second, states make security, in some instances, by drawing on their own capacities, whereas in other fields they rely on rules to manage n...
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作者：Yu, Jungseok
作者单位：University of Otago
摘要：Drawing on insights from over 12 years of direct involvement in both state and industry regulation, this article examines whether extensive state involvement in social media regulation, particularly concerning disinformation, is always advisable. The South Korean case provides valuable lessons for other democracies, demonstrating how state-led institutions regulating defamation and social disorder can restrict political speech. By demonstrating the critical flaws of both state-driven and marke...
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作者：Stockmann, Daniela; Luo, Ting
作者单位：Hertie School; University of Birmingham
摘要：There is a continuing debate on whether the internet serves as a public sphere for meaningful political discussion and increases political engagement. Yet, we know little about how internet users in authoritarian regimes perceive and experience online political discussion beyond the dominant frame of censorship and surveillance. Based on the first nationally representative survey on internet use in China, this paper examines how citizens view the space for political discussion online and offli...
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作者：Joosen, Rik
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; University of Antwerp
摘要：This paper assesses what type of comments are most useful to what type of stakeholder in gaining influence during public consultations. Theoretically, the paper approaches stakeholders' consultation comments as reputational threats from key audiences that the agency needs to respond to. Different types of threats are expected to carry different weights depending on the type of stakeholders. The analysis is based on a dataset of 73,283 consultation comments left by stakeholders in EASA rulemaki...
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作者：Fahy, Lauren A.; Klijn, Erik-Hans; van Erp, Judith
作者单位：Utrecht University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Utrecht University
摘要：This article reports findings of a Q Methodology study in which we explored the opinions of employees from eight Dutch regulatory agencies on how agencies gain their reputation. This is the largest study to date examining employee's views on the relative importance of different factors in reputation acquisition by public organizations, and the first analyzing employees in regulatory agencies. Results reveal five distinct profiles of opinion among employees about the factors most important in 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 ...
