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Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across TimeBy Thomas Hale, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 241 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐123812‐8 《长期问题：气候变化与跨时代治理的挑战》，托马斯·黑尔著，普林斯顿：普林斯顿大学出版社，2024年。241页，29.95美元（精装）。ISBN: 978 0量69还是123812列车8

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70058

Daniel J. Fiorino

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Balancing Between Extremes: Goal Ambiguity‐Based Strategies to Contain Goal Displacement in Regulatory Enforcement Agencies 极端之间的平衡：基于目标模糊的策略，以遏制监管执法机构的目标位移

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70062

Kees Huizinga, Martin de Bree

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Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust 化脆弱性为优势：独立监管机构如何加强问责制并建立利益相关者信任

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-13 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70053

Jacint Jordana, Juan Carlos Triviño‐Salazar

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Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy 条件性调节：新产业政策的工具

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70050

Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen, Erez Maggor

{"title":"Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy","authors":"Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen, Erez Maggor","doi":"10.1111/rego.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70050","url":null,"abstract":"Conditionality was a central concern in the development literature of the 1990s. With the significant expansion of targeted public support to private firms since the Great Financial Crisis, the issue of conditionality has once again become a focal point in industrial policy debates. Despite the growing interest in the concept, the existing literature lacks a systematic conceptualization of conditionality within the context of industrial policy and does not outline the political factors that enable state actors to introduce it. This article addresses this gap by critically reviewing the existing literature and providing a systematic political economy of conditionality. We offer an overview of the literature on conditionality, examining different industries, historical periods, and national contexts. In doing so, we make three key contributions to the debate on industrial policy and regulatory instruments more broadly. First, we distinguish between two broad approaches to encoding conditionality in industrial policy: hard‐coding and soft‐coding. Next, we map the coalitional, institutional, ideational, and global contextual factors that facilitate conditionality. Finally, we present two vignettes of recent industrial policy initiatives in the European Union and the United States as illustrative cases. This conceptual exercise, intended to lay the foundation for future causal research on conditionality, demonstrates that the presence of conditionality is not merely a technical matter of political design but is instead shaped by configurations of political economy factors.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144611334","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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Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU: The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans 欧盟生态社会政策的多样性：以国家复苏和弹性计划为例

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70057

Benedetta Cotta, Ekaterina Domorenok, Paolo Graziano, Trajche Panov

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Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market 消费所有权：产权与消费者保护法作为市场中企业权力的规制方式之比较

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-07 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70028

Shelly Kreiczer‐Levy

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Policy Growth and Its Impacts on Policy Implementation: Changes, Challenges and Chances 政策增长及其对政策实施的影响：变化、挑战和机遇

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70041

Yves Steinebach, Christoph Knill, Mattia Casula

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Correction to “Climate Politics in Latin America: The Cases of Chile and Mexico” 更正“拉丁美洲的气候政治：智利和墨西哥的案例”

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-02 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70054

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Citizen Trust in Regulators: Evaluating the Validity of the CTGO‐Scale in Transitioning Societies 公民对监管机构的信任：转型社会CTGO量表的有效性评估

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70055

Dominika Latusek, Anna Pikos, Frédérique Six, Marcin Wardaszko

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Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks 吵闹的政治，安静的技术官僚：中央银行的战略沉默

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-06-26 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70052

Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft

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