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Integrity for English Eyes Only? Evidence of Means‐Ends Decoupling in B razilian Corporate Compliance 只有英语人才看诚信？巴西企业合规的手段与目的解耦证据

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70164

Marco Antonio Portugal

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Re‐Imagining Regulatory Governance 重塑监管治理

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-04-14 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70159

David Levi‐Faur

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The Diffusion of International Environmental Agreements: The Role of Learning, Competition and Emulation 国际环境协定的扩散：学习、竞争和仿效的作用

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-04-14 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70163

Elif Korkmaz Tümer, Mehmet Güçlü

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Hybridity of Accountability Logics in Voluntary Sustainability Governance: The Case of Commitment 2050 自愿可持续治理中问责逻辑的混杂性：以承诺为例，2050

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-04-13 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70165

Elina Vikstedt, Visa Penttilä, Olga Welinder, Jarmo Vakkuri

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Why Do Eastern African Countries Comply With OECD Tax Norms? How Network Effects Shape Policy Transfer in Anti‐Profit Shifting Governance 为什么东非国家遵守经合组织的税收规范？反利润转移治理中的网络效应如何影响政策转移

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-04-09 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70157

Cassandra Vet, Abebe Gebrehiwot Yihdego

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Chain Reactions: How Businesses Plan to Respond to the EU Deforestation Regulation in Brazil, the Congo Basin, and Europe 连锁反应：企业计划如何应对欧盟在巴西、刚果盆地和欧洲的森林砍伐法规

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-04-01 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70156

Mathias Cramm, Rafaella Ferraz Ziegert, Laila Berning, Hassina Uwiringiyimana, Dario Schulz, Abubakar Shidiki, Herman Zanguim, Sven Wunder, Jan Börner, Claudia Azevedo-Ramos, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Metodi Sotirov

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A Complexity‐Based Approach to Migration Policy Change: The Case of the German Residence Act 基于复杂性的移民政策变化方法：以德国居留法为例

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-03-31 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70145

Pau Palop‐García

{"title":"A Complexity‐Based Approach to Migration Policy Change: The Case of the German Residence Act","authors":"Pau Palop‐García","doi":"10.1111/rego.70145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70145","url":null,"abstract":"This paper adapts and applies existing indicators to measure the complexity of German migration policy over time. Building on recent scholarship that conceptualizes migration policy as multidimensional, I adapt a measurement strategy from the EUPLEX Project to capture three key components of regulatory complexity: structural, linguistic, and relational. Using an original dataset (COMPLEXMIG), I apply quantitative text analysis to all versions of the German Residence Act from 2005 to 2023. The analysis examines both the overall evolution of complexity in German migration policy and the differences in complexity across specific migration pathways—labor, family, humanitarian, and student migration. The results reveal that regulatory complexity does not evolve linearly but follows punctuated patterns of change, with moments of sharp increase concentrated in a few time periods. These findings contrast with the more gradual and diffuse changes observed in the substance of migration policy, suggesting that complexity operates as a distinct dimension of policy development. This study contributes methodologically by offering tools to systematically assess regulatory complexity and by demonstrating how complexity measures can illuminate temporal dynamics often overlooked in existing research. This approach lays the groundwork for future comparative analyses of how complexity shapes migration policy.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147578418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Thin Blue Democratic Line? Organization, Interest, and Ethical Compatibility as Foundations of External Accountability Credibility 一条微弱的民主党蓝线？组织、利益和伦理兼容性：外部问责可信度的基础

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-03-31 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70154

Sebastian Roché, Jacques de Maillard, Julien Noble

{"title":"A Thin Blue Democratic Line? Organization, Interest, and Ethical Compatibility as Foundations of External Accountability Credibility","authors":"Sebastian Roché, Jacques de Maillard, Julien Noble","doi":"10.1111/rego.70154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70154","url":null,"abstract":"In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility.” Trust in regulators by front‐line civil servants remains a neglected area of regulatory studies. Hence, we propose three contrasting sets of hypotheses and test them to explain the credibility of external accountability among a sample of police and gendarmerie officers in France in a context of meta‐regulation/multiple accountability. Credibility seems to be shaped by organizational rules—credibility being higher in military‐status than in civilian forces and when human rights education is provided—by expected personal (dis)satisfaction with the mechanism, and by the compatibility of attitudes concerning internal and external accountability. We propose to retain an integrated theoretical framework termed “OIAC” which combines three logics—of organization, interests and compatibility of attitudes—to analyze how public agents perceive the credibility of the regulatory systems governing their professional ethics.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147578417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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More Specialization, More Coordination? Evidence From Local Public Service Delivery in Norway 更专业化，更协调？来自挪威当地公共服务提供的证据

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-03-31 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70155

Leif. E. Kårtvedt

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Small, Medium, Large: How Government Made the US Into a Manufacturing Powerhouse. By Colleen A.Dunlavy, Cambridge: Polity, 2024. 240 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN‐13 : 978‐1‐50‐956173‐5 小型，中型，大型：政府如何使美国成为制造业强国。作者：Colleen A.Dunlavy, Cambridge: Polity, 2024。240页，29.95美元（精装版）。Isbn‐13:978‐1‐50‐956173‐5

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-03-30 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70151

Herman Mark Schwartz

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