-
作者：Monciardini, David; Conaldi, Guido
作者单位：University of Exeter; University of Greenwich
摘要：Intended beneficiaries have an undeniable relevance to regulation. However, current research has focused mainly on the two-party relationship between rulemaking and rule-taking. We attempt to fill this gap by exploring the formal and informal roles that beneficiaries' intermediaries played in co-creating European Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rules and associated practices between 2000 and 2017. By linking recent conceptualizations of regulatory intermediaries with the literature on cr...
-
作者：Steinebach, Yves; Knill, Christoph; Jordana, Jacint
作者单位：University of Munich; Pompeu Fabra University
摘要：This article provides an encompassing analysis of how economic crises affect social regulation. The analysis is based on an innovative dataset that covers policy output changes in 13 European countries over a period of 34 years (1980-2013) in the areas of pensions, unemployment, and child benefits. By performing a negative binomial regression analysis, we show that economic crises do matter for social policymaking. Our main empirical finding is that crises impinge on social regulation by openi...
-
作者：Gold, E. Richard; Shadeed, Erica; Morin, Jean-Frederic
作者单位：Laval University
摘要：While policymakers often make bold claims as to the positive impact of intellectual property (IP) rights on both developed and developing country economies, the empirical literature is more ambiguous. IP rights have both incentive and inhibitory effects that are difficult to isolate in the abstract and are dependent on economic context. To unravel these contradictory effects, this article introduces an index that evaluates the strength of IP protection in 124 developing countries for the years...
-
作者：Avidan, Miron; Etzion, Dror; Gehman, Joel
作者单位：McGill University; University of Alberta
摘要：How do the material aspects of intermediary work affect regulators, targets, and beneficiaries? To shed light on this question, we studied an information intermediary in the form of a website and the organizations who founded it. Specifically, we analyzed FracFocus, a self-regulatory initiative with strong industry ties, charged with disclosing data pertaining to the chemicals used in oil and gas wells completed using hydraulic fracturing technology (fracking) in the United States and Canada. ...
-
作者：Wang, Raymond Yu; Liu, Tao; Dang, Heping
作者单位：Sun Yat Sen University; Peking University; Peking University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：This paper attempts to bridge critical institutionalism and fragmented authoritarianism in China. Moving beyond the predictive functionalist perspective and the overemphasis on state primacy, the paper focuses on how top-down water policies are exercised by local agencies, collective communities, and individuals at the county level and below. Through a case of irrigation management in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, this paper posits that institutional bricolage and fragmentation are pr...
-
作者：Lim, Sijeong; Duit, Andreas
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Stockholm University
摘要：Building on the burgeoning literature on the association between the welfare state and the environmental state, this study empirically examines how the politics of the former has affected the development of the latter. We suggest that the size of the welfare state shapes the calculus of environmental policy costs by partisan governments. A generous welfare state lowers the costs perceived by the left-wing government, as large redistributive spending allows the government to mitigate the advers...
-
作者：Almond, Paul; Esbester, Mike
作者单位：University of Reading; University of Portsmouth
摘要：The regulation of conduct via law is a key mechanism through which broader social meanings are negotiated and expressed. The use of regulatory tools to bring about desired outcomes reflects existing social and political understandings of institutional legitimacy, the meanings attached to regulation, and the values it seeks to advance. But these contextual understandings are not static, and their evolution poses challenges for regulators, particularly when they reflect political framing process...
-
作者：Bar-Siman-Tov, Ittai
作者单位：Bar Ilan University
摘要：This article presents the findings of an extensive multi-method empirical study that explored the relationship between temporary legislation, better regulation, and experimentalist governance. Temporary (or sunset) legislation - statutory provisions enacted for a limited time and set to expire unless their validity is extended - is often hailed as a key tool for promoting experimental and better regulation. Despite the importance of temporary legislation and the burgeoning theoretical scholars...
-
作者：Henriksen, Lasse Folke; Ponte, Stefano
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：This article contributes to current debates on the potential and limitations of transnational environmental governance, addressing in particular the issue of how private and public regulation compete and/or reinforce each other - and with what results. One of the most influential approaches to emerge in recent years has been that of orchestration. But while recent discussions have focused on a narrow interpretation of orchestration as intermediation, we argue that there is analytical traction ...
-
作者：Hong, Seung-Hun; You, Jong-sung
作者单位：Australian National University; Australian National University
摘要：Responsiveness and accountability constitute the process of democratic representation, reinforcing each other. Responsiveness asks elected representatives to adopt policies ex ante preferred by citizens, while accountability consists of the people's ex post sanctioning of the representatives based on policy outcomes. However, the regulatory literature tends to interpret responsiveness narrowly between a regulator and regulatees: the regulator is responsive to regulatees' compliance without con...
