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作者：Linarelli, John
作者单位：Durham University
摘要：Debt presents a dilemma to societies: successful societies benefit from a substantial infrastructure of consumer, commercial, corporate, and sovereign debt but debt can cause substantial private and social harm. Pre-crisis and post-crisis solutions have seesawed between subsidizing and restricting debt, between leveraging and deleveraging. A consensus exists among governments and international financial institutions that financial stability is the fundamental normative principle underlying fin...
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作者：Parrado, Salvador
作者单位：Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED)
摘要：Disasters challenge the equilibrium of regulatory regimes and make policy shifts more likely. Using an institutional theory of cultural biases and the concept of cultural surprise, this article analyses the direction and intensity of media argumentation in respect of policy shifts. Instead of assuming a demand for greater State intervention after dramatic focusing events, as suggested by other theoretical frames, cultural theory opens a variety of options that range from embracing regulatory r...
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作者：Grabs, Janina
作者单位：University of Munster
摘要：The potential of transnational private governance initiatives to constitute effective alternatives to state-led regulation of global value chains rests on their ability to scale up and become institutionalized in a given sector. This study examines whether such institutionalization has occurred in the coffee sector, the commodity with the most widespread adoption of certified products and over 30 years' experience of private governance, and tests hypotheses on facilitating and inhibiting condi...
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作者：Sadeh, Tal; Porath, Yehuda
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Bank of Israel
摘要：In this article, we examine how national Debt Management Offices (DMOs) in developed countries handle governments' relational contracts with lenders, which are characterized by potentially important information asymmetries. In response to privileged information, the DMO can adjust the maturity of the auctioned debt perfunctorily - signaling defection from the win-win spirit of the contract - or consummately - signaling the government's cooperative attitude, and earning the trust of the lenders...
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作者：Hahn, Robert; Metcalfe, Robert; Rundhammer, Florian
作者单位：University of Oxford; Boston University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：This paper traces a new development in regulation that encourages utilities to engage more directly with their customers. We make four contributions: First, we perform a comprehensive analysis of how regulators are using customer engagement, and offer a simple model for understanding different customer engagement initiatives. Second, we review assessments of customer engagement. We find that there are no quantitative, empirically robust assessments of the effectiveness of customer engagement a...
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作者：Wyatt, Stephen; Teitelbaum, Sara
作者单位：University of Moncton; Universite de Montreal
摘要：As voluntary third-party certification systems become an increasingly accepted part of international frameworks for forest governance, some state forestry agencies are following the private sector in seeking certification of their forest management activities. We ask how the roles and responsibilities of state forest management agencies interact with the processes and mechanisms established by certification systems. To answer this question, we review existing research to propose a conceptual f...
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作者：Almond, Paul; van Erp, Judith
作者单位：University of Reading; Utrecht University
摘要：This paper seeks to bridge the disciplinary gap between regulation and governance studies, and criminology. Based on a review of theoretical and empirical work on corporate crime, this paper argues that divergent approaches to questions of individual agency, localized variety, and political context, have drawn these two disciplines in different directions. Regulatory governance scholarship has thrived as a discipline, but has also narrowed its focus around these issues. Corporate criminology o...
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作者：Capano, Giliberto; Pritoni, Andrea
作者单位：University of Bologna; University of Turin
摘要：As a result of domestic pressure or international prescription, many national higher education systems (HESs) in Europe have undergone structural changes over the last 30 years. These changes have been made primarily to enhance the overall performance - defined as students' access, quality of teaching, and excellence in research - of universities. As such, almost all of these countries have decided to adopt similar policy strategies to foster institutional autonomy and differentiation, and gre...
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作者：Colli, Francesca; Adriaensen, Johan
作者单位：KU Leuven; Maastricht University
摘要：This article lays out a framework for the conditions under which a civil society organization lobbies the state and when it turns to the market. This strategic choice cannot be understood solely from within current frameworks of lobbying strategies; insights from interest group studies must be complemented with the social movement literature's understanding of market-based strategies. We build an overarching framework by extending the inside and outside lobbying dichotomy to include strategies...
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作者：Rex, Justin
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Bowling Green State University
摘要：Recent crises and disasters in regulated industries have renewed scholarly attention to regulatory capture. The present research incorporates and builds on these efforts by creating a typology to help researchers and practitioners organize the capture literature. The typology has two dimensions: the degree of coordination within the regulated industry, the agents of capture; and the scope of capture within the agency and elected officials, the targets of capture. I illustrate the utility of th...
