Regulation AND Governance

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• Affidavit aversion: Public preferences for trust-based policy instruments AI翻译
  作者：Hilo-Merkovich, Rinat; Peer, Eyal; Feldman, Yuval
  作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Bar Ilan University
  摘要：Regulators who aim to reduce administrative burdens often promote trust-based policy instruments, such as legal affidavits or honesty pledges, as substitutes to traditional bureaucratic procedures. However, little is known on how the general public view such instruments, and whether people would actually comply with them, and under what circumstances. Using a series of experimental vignettes, we examine public preferences toward these instruments under different conditions and contexts. We fin...
• Reflexive institutional reform and the politics of the regulatory state of the south AI翻译
  作者：Desai, Deval
  作者单位：University of Edinburgh
  摘要：What will the regulatory state of the South (RSoS) look like in the coming decade? This paper takes stock of contemporary practices of institutional reform in development, and their historical trajectory, to chart a possible pathway. Empirically, I identify a practical shift in development since the early-2000s. On one side are Washington Consensus practices that assume a non-reflexive relationship between people and institutions, meaning that people, in general, do not or should not reflect o...
• The European administrative space over time mapping the formal independence of EU agencies AI翻译
  作者：Ruffing, Eva; Weinrich, Martin; Rittberger, Berthold; Wonka, Arndt
  作者单位：University Osnabruck; University of Munich; University of Bremen
  摘要：Throughout the past decades, the EU's agency landscape has continuously expanded in size and scope. In this article, we address the lack of longitudinal data on EU agencies' formal independence. We introduce a newly revised index to measure the formal independence of EU agencies from other EU institutions over time. Applying a rules-as-data approach we coded 206 regulations and amendments to develop a new dataset covering the formal independence of all 39 EU agencies from 1975 to 2022. This lo...
• The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness? AI翻译
  作者：Borrell, Joan-Ramon; Garcia, Carmen; Luis Jimenez, Juan
  作者单位：University of Barcelona; University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  摘要：This paper estimates the impact of reforming competition authorities on perceived antitrust effectiveness using methods of causal inference. We study how 20 countries reformed their competition authorities in depth between 1995 and 2020, and what has been the outcome of such reforms in the perceived competition policy effectiveness by the business community compared with 18 control countries in a balanced panel. As the political economy literature warned, we find that reforms paradoxically hav...
• Does appealability foster more citizen-friendly decisions at the street level? AI翻译
  作者：Gershgoren, Sagi; Cohen, Nissim
  作者单位：University of Haifa
  摘要：Unbiased conduct is an essential part of the social contract between the state and its citizens. Yet, when tasked with settling disputes between citizens and other state officials, are public administrators truly impartial in their resolutions? Such a question is vital for street-level bureaucrats whom the public perceives as the face of governance. This study investigates the relations between the pro-citizen tendencies in street-level bureaucrats' resolutions, their internal appealability, a...
• Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life-and-death policies in Belgium AI翻译
  作者：Ciornei, Irina; Euchner, Eva-Maria; Preisner, Michalina; Yesil, Ilay
  作者单位：University of Munich; University of Bern
  摘要：This article makes important contributions to governance research by studying the implementation of policies with high potential for goal incongruence between intermediaries and regulators. Building on a regulatory intermediation framework and prevailing theories from organizational institutionalism, we propose an original typology that classifies intermediaries' strategies for coping with challenging regulations. Furthermore, we explain the choice of these strategies based on intermediaries' ...
• Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics AI翻译
  作者：De Grandis, Giovanni; Brass, Irina; Farid, Suzanne S.
  作者单位：Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); University of London; University College London; University of London; University College London
  摘要：The need to better balance the promotion of scientific and technological innovation with risk management for consumer protection has inspired several recent reforms attempting to make regulations more flexible and adaptive. The pharmaceutical sector has a long, established regulatory tradition, as well as a long history of controversies around how to balance incentives for needed therapeutic innovations and protecting patient safety. The emergence of disruptive biotechnologies has provided the...
• Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization of mandatory due diligence in France and Germany AI翻译
  作者：Gustafsson, Maria-Therese; Schilling-Vacaflor, Almut; Lenschow, Andrea
  作者单位：Stockholm University; University Osnabruck
  摘要：In the recent past, European states have adopted mandatory due diligence (MDD) laws for holding companies accountable for the environmental and human rights impacts of their supply chains. The institutionalization of the international due diligence norm into domestic legislation has, however, been highly contested. Our contribution analyzes the discursive struggles about the meaning of due diligence that have accompanied the institutionalization of MDD in Germany and France. Based on document ...
• Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism? AI翻译
  作者：Li, Hui; Farid, May
  作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of Hong Kong
  摘要：International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are increasingly important players in global politics and development. However, they are undergoing significant adaptations as governments worldwide have instituted restrictions to regulate their activities. What explains the various ways in which they respond to these institutional pressures? In our study of INGO responses to a new restrictive law in China, we identify four strategic responses with varying levels of compliance: legal registr...
• Carrying the black pot: Food safety and risk in China's reactive regulatory state AI翻译
  作者：Wang, Li; Demeritt, David; Rothstein, Henry
  作者单位：University of London; King's College London
  摘要：This paper explores the struggles of China's party-state to address chronic food safety problems by adopting international best practices of risk-based regulation. Despite formally adopting risk-based approaches for targeting inspections and enforcement in 2002, implementation has been halting and uneven, as we show in the first analysis of risk-based regulation beyond its OECD heartlands. Drawing on policy document analysis and 36 key informant interviews with food business operators and gove...