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作者：Guardiancich, Igor; Guidi, Mattia
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; Luiss Guido Carli University; Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要：The Varieties of Capitalism literature posits that national economic institutions reflect the mode of coordination of a country's market actors. Despite the importance of this claim and a rich literature on the emergence of regulatory capitalism, few studies test such prediction for Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs). This article connects the two fields of research by analysing the impact of economic coordination on the formal independence of IRAs. The results show that, beyond issues of ...
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作者：Johnson, Thomas R.
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong
摘要：In China, urban middle class mobilization against potential pollution risk has become increasingly common. This article examines this phenomenon through a detailed case study of a 2009 anti-waste incinerator campaign in the Panyu District of Guangzhou, which culminated in a sizeable public protest and government U-turn. This episode revealed tension between the narrow, state-centered regulatory model fixated on end-of-pipe pollution control, and a much broader decentered approach advocated - a...
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作者：Shi, Yifan; van Rooij, Benjamin
作者单位：University of Electronic Science & Technology of China; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Brazil's successful prosecutorial civil action against polluters could be a regulatory example for the Global South. This paper analyses whether such regulation could also develop without the major political, institutional, and legal reforms that spurred it in Brazil. To do so, it analyzes China, where similar reforms have so far not occurred, but where prosecutors have recently started to initiate civil litigation against polluters. It finds that prosecutorial civil litigation in China has on...
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作者：de Bruijn, Hans; Groenleer, Martijn; van Ruijven, Theo
作者单位：Delft University of Technology
摘要：On 10 October 2012, the United States Anti-Doping Agency published an investigative report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs by professional cyclist Lance Armstrong. The report paints a disconcerting picture of the doping program that Armstrong and his US Postal Service professional cycling team managed to carry out for several years, despite being subject to many inspections. It contains a wealth of unique empirical data, including a large number of affidavits. In this article, we use...
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作者：Sunstein, Cass R.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：How can we measure whether national institutions in general, and regulatory institutions in particular, are dysfunctional? A central question is whether they are helping a nation's citizens to live good lives. A full answer to that question would require a great deal of philosophical work, but it should be possible to achieve an incompletely theorized agreement on a kind of nonsectarian welfarism, emphasizing the importance of five variables: subjective well-being, longevity, health, education...
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作者：Murphy, Kristina
作者单位：Griffith University
摘要：This paper uses Braithwaite's motivational posturing framework to explain how individuals react to encounters with regulatory authorities. Of interest is whether procedural justice can reduce defiance and improve self-reported compliance among individuals who are either resistant or dismissive of regulatory authority. Using longitudinal survey data collected from tax offenders (Study 1), and individuals who had a recent police-citizen interaction (Study 2), it will be shown that procedural jus...
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作者：Snir, Reut; Ravid, Gilad
作者单位：Bar Ilan University; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
摘要：Over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of nanotechnology regulatory initiatives, developed to ensure the responsible development of nanotechnology applications. This article examines the emergence and diffusion of environmental, health and safety (EHS) policies dealing with nanotechnology. Drawing on a citation network analysis of global nanotechnology regulatory governance, the article analyzes the role of key organizations at multiple levels and their interplay in initiating an...
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作者：Prakash, Aseem; Potoski, Matthew
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：There is a wide-spread perception among academics and commentators that institutional dysfunction has become increasingly common in important social, political, and economics arenas. Opinion polls show a decline in trust and confidence in major actors and institutions, including inter-governmental organizations, governments, firms, NGOs, and religious organizations. For some, the core of the problem is that the hitherto well-functioning states have become less effective in aggregating and acti...
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作者：Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz
作者单位：Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; University of Vienna
摘要：The ideological orientation of parties in government has not been prominently featured in explaining the rise of regulatory agencies. This paper argues that theories based on political uncertainty and credible commitment can yield meaningful predictions regarding the relationship between government preferences and the establishment of regulatory agencies, when ideological orientation is linked with notions of party competence and issue ownership. The empirical section tests three such hypothes...
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作者：Duina, Francesco
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：Regional trade agreements (RTAs) constitute one of the most important elements of the international economic order. Researchers have accordingly embarked on comparative analyses of their design. Yet one fundamental question remains unanswered: how have officials in different RTAs responded to the challenge of regulatory misalignments among the member states? In this article, I turn to 10 of the most established RTAs in the world and document three types of responses. Some RTAs rely on the prin...
