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作者：Vikstedt, Elina; Penttila, Visa; Welinder, Olga; Vakkuri, Jarmo
作者单位：Tampere University; Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT; Lund University
摘要：Governance of sustainable development increasingly relies on voluntary standards and commitments, the credibility and effectiveness of which hinge on accountability-ensuring actors align with shared goals and follow through on them. However, voluntary initiatives operate outside traditional control structures and blend elements of state, market, and community governance. This study examines how accountability is constructed and practiced through the lens of accountability logics. Using Finland...
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作者：Shyrokykh, Karina; Eckert, Sandra; Olofsson, Kristin
作者单位：Stockholm University; University of Erlangen Nuremberg; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：We approach public communication of bureaucratic organizations as a means of reputation management and argue that social media communication that abstains from making reference to other agencies is in line with a turf-protective strategy, whereas communication that seeks to establish a link to other agencies is in line with a strategy to embrace new issues and expand policy competencies. Using climate policy communication by EU agencies on the social media platform Twitter (currently X), we sh...
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作者：Bender, Benedikt; Kinderman, Daniel
作者单位：Goethe University Frankfurt; University of Delaware
摘要：The climate crisis poses an acute threat to humanity. Eco-social policy can help mitigate this threat, but eco-social policy and the green transition are expensive. Our paper contributes to a better understanding of the role that green subsidies play in advancing eco-social politics and policies. We assert that green subsidies increase the political viability of eco-social policies. Green subsidies lead trade unions and business organizations to support eco-social policies, regardless of insti...
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作者：Kiewisch, Manuel
作者单位：Wageningen University & Research
摘要：Adopted in 2024, the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EUCS3D, alternatively EUCSDDD) instructs member states to regulate human rights and environmental due diligence across business operations and their global value chains. Businesses started to familiarize themselves with the new directive to develop future compliance strategies. Despite its importance, the familiarization process has received little attention in research. Through interviews with employees and legal interm...
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作者：de Filippi, Primavera; Mannan, Morshed; Reijers, Wessel
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); University of Edinburgh; University of Paderborn
摘要：Emerging technologies pose many new challenges for regulation and governance on a global scale. With the advent of distributed communication networks like the Internet and decentralized ledger technologies like blockchain, new platforms emerged, disrupting existing power dynamics and bringing about new claims of sovereignty from the private sector. This special issue addresses a gap in the literature by focusing the discourse on the issue of trust and confidence in the digital realm. In partic...
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作者：Garcia-Llorente, Carlos; Olmeda, Ignacio
作者单位：Universidad de Alcala; Universidad de Alcala; Universidad de Alcala
摘要：Across 124 jurisdictions, formal legal architecture for AI-related rights protection-including data protection legislation, independent oversight authorities, and sanctioning powers-is substantially more developed than the institutional conditions that make those rights operationally enforceable in practice. This paper introduces the concept of the capacity-justiciability gap to capture this structural disconnect: the distance between the formal existence of rights-relevant legal infrastructur...
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作者：Greenstein, Gus; Heinzel, Mirko
作者单位：Stanford University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University; University of Glasgow; Maastricht University
摘要：We examine the impact of bureaucratic politics within the US Agency for International Development on the allocation of its development assistance. Existing studies of aid allocation have focused on donor interests, recipient needs, and recipient merit without accounting for the bureaucratic decision-making process that helps determine these budgets. We theorize that most field-based development officials seek to maximize their country's budgets and that better-staffed country offices have grea...
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作者：Nielsen, Anders Leth
作者单位：Aarhus University
摘要：In most political systems, cities are not formally part of national policymaking. However, since they are often responsible for the implementation of national policies, they are likely to seek influence on these policies. Existing literature deals mostly with institutionalized policy cooperation and collective municipal organizations. As such, we know very little about how individual cities try to pursue their interests in national policymaking, let alone the conditions for their success. Docu...
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作者：Weigl, Linda; Reysner, Marta
作者单位：University of Amsterdam
摘要：The European Commission's decision to expand its 2014 Regulation on electronic identification and trust services toward wallet-based digital identities marked a significant shift in the governance of users' digital identities. The intersection between private digital services, public prerogatives, and individual self-determination raises questions of data governance, notably power conflicts over control and usage. This study investigates the governance of the European Digital Identity Framewor...
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作者：Atiles, Jose; Whyte, David
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of London; Queen Mary University London
摘要：Secrecy jurisdictions play a crucial role in the legal framework perpetuating climate change. This paper demonstrates how these jurisdictions sustain the dynamics of climate change by enabling capital accumulation rooted in environmental degradation. A regulatory approach to law and climate change must address the global nature of the legal structure that upholds exploitative and ecocidal social relationships. This paper argues that secrecy jurisdictions are a pivotal yet under-analyzed elemen...
