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作者：Forsyth, Miranda; Roberts, Anthea
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：This article focuses on the roles of insiders or outsiders in order to theorize the role that human agents play in systems change. It asks: (1) what strengths and weaknesses do insiders and outsiders have respectively as agents of change; and (2) what strategies are available to use these insights to increase, or to limit, the prospects of significant and lasting change? Drawing on an interdisciplinary range of scholarship, it develops a general theoretical framework for identifying the streng...
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作者：Lahusen, Christian; Ceriman, Jelena; Kafe, Anastasia
作者单位：Universitat Siegen; University of Belgrade
摘要：This paper examines social assistance for vulnerable families at the frontline level of service delivery, exploring how citizens' trust and distrust are shaped within this administrative context. It addresses three questions: Do citizens distinguish between trust and distrust in frontline workers and public institutions when reporting on their encounters with welfare services? Which key attributes of trustworthiness emerge from their experiences at each of these levels? And most importantly, t...
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作者：Chesterfield, Alexandra M.; Reader, Tom W.; Gillespie, Alex
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：In established democracies, the threat of regulatory capture-often implicated in major crises-is usually less about financial mechanisms like bribery and more about the subtle social processes of cultural capture. But how exactly is cultural capture defined, theorized, and assessed, and what are its underlying mechanisms, manifestations, and impact? This article presents a systematic review (n = 39) of cultural capture, identifying 7 descriptions and 10 mechanisms. We consolidate these into fi...
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作者：Erie, Matthew S.
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Much of scholarly writing on compliance is derived from the experiences of Western multi-national corporations operating in developed economies. This introduction to the special issue China in Compliance departs from such convention by asking how compliance works in China. By broadening the scope of compliance studies to include non-Western contexts, including China and its relationship to the Global South and nondemocratic settings, the special issue breaks new ground in the empirical analysi...
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作者：Driessen, Miriam
作者单位：University of Oxford
摘要：Over the past three decades, a growing number of Chinese enterprises have entered Ethiopia's construction and manufacturing sectors as contractors and investors. While adapting to a new regulatory environment, many of these companies have faced administrative challenges and accusations of noncompliance, some of which have been brought to court. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article shows how and why Ethiopian lawyers employed by Chinese firms have become critical to cultivating compli...
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作者：Itskovich, Eran; Factor, Roni; Levi-Faur, David; Tankebe, Justice; Kubbe, Ina
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Cambridge; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Tel Aviv University
摘要：Deterrence theory underpins numerous anti-corruption interventions. Yet, empirical evidence on its application to corruption remains limited. Existing studies rely mainly on laboratory experiments and focus on certainty and severity of punishment, leaving the role of celerity unexplored. This study addresses these gaps by examining the three elements of deterrence-certainty, severity, and celerity-using data from 25 European Union countries across five time periods (2013-2024), while controlli...
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作者：Fligstein, Neil
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：The crisis of climate change threatens the existence of human civilization. As social scientists, we should be positioned to theorize and study whether or not the existing system of global capitalism can find ways to ameliorate the crisis or is doomed to cause that collapse because of the overwhelming power of dominant economic interests. This paper argues that right now our dominant theories of capitalism, fail to give us sufficient leverage to understand how and if the energy transition will...
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作者：Bocquet, Nicolas
作者单位：Universite Catholique Louvain
摘要：This article pursues two objectives. First, it aims to trace the genealogy of data protection regulation in major liberal democracies. To do so, it examines the evolution of this regulation in the United States, France, and Germany, among others, and relies on the policy actors' triangle framework. Second, the article provides an explanation for the paradox that emerges from this diachronic analysis: a long-term stagnation of data protection regulation despite the radical transformation of the...
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作者：Perez-Duran, Ixchel; Papadopoulos, Yannis; Redert, Bastiaan; Trivino-Salazar, Juan Carlos
作者单位：Autonomous University of Barcelona; University of Lausanne; University of Antwerp; Pompeu Fabra University
摘要：This paper examines expertise and professional diversity within new (agencies and central banks) and traditional (ministries) regulatory bodies (RBs) and assesses their effect on the perceived competence of RBs. In particular, we address the following research questions: To what extent do members of RBs have expertise and display diversity in terms of their professional trajectories? How do expertise and professional diversity affect the perceived competence of RBs? By using two empirical sour...
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作者：Chung, Kee Hoon; Lee, Don S.; Park, Soonae
作者单位：Kyung Hee University; Korea University; Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：Legal corruption, also known as institutional corruption, has become prevalent in the public sector, but empirical research on this subject is still at a nascent stage. Given its potentially detrimental impact on the perceived level of organizational capacity among internal members, understanding civil servants' views of legal corruption is essential. We contribute to this literature a discussion of civil servants' assessment of legal corruption in the government and evidence from a survey exp...
