Regulation & Governance最新文献_第10页

Regulatory Context and Bureaucratic Policy Making: Illustrations From Payment System Regulation in Brazil 监管背景和官僚政策制定：来自巴西支付系统监管的例证

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-27 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70121

João Pedro Haddad, Lauro Emilio Gonzalez

{"title":"Regulatory Context and Bureaucratic Policy Making: Illustrations From Payment System Regulation in Brazil","authors":"João Pedro Haddad, Lauro Emilio Gonzalez","doi":"10.1111/rego.70121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70121","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal, concerning engagement with interest and societal groups within the agency's jurisdiction, and external, relating to interactions with other institutional actors across government. We argue that regulators strategically define access, consultation, and debate to maximize preference attainment. However, these efforts are shaped and constrained by contextual factors, including the mobilization and coordination of external actors, as well as issue salience. Using the case of the Brazilian central bank's regulation of electronic payments in the country, we perform a process tracing to explain how bureaucratic strategies and unanticipated contextual dynamics interact to produce different outcomes. Our findings suggest that, while higher issue salience enables regulators to achieve greater preference attainment, excluding mobilized actors has a salience threshold beyond which they are compelled to accommodate demands they originally opposed, whereas including these actors tends to result in partial attainment.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145836074","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}

引用次数: 0

Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies 企业参与监管：管理学研究的多焦点视角

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70110

Onna Malou van den Broek, Judith Schrempf‐Stirling, Frank de Bakker, Arno Kourula

引用次数: 0

Bureaucratic Politics and Aid Allocation: Evidence From the US Agency for International Development 官僚政治与援助分配：来自美国国际开发署的证据

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70106

Gus Greenstein, Mirko Heinzel

{"title":"Bureaucratic Politics and Aid Allocation: Evidence From the US Agency for International Development","authors":"Gus Greenstein, Mirko Heinzel","doi":"10.1111/rego.70106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70106","url":null,"abstract":"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 greater capacities to do so. We test this theory using novel data on USAID staffing patterns between 1980 and 2020 and leverage staff rotation patterns using an instrumental variable strategy. Consistent with our theory, results show that increasing the number of USAID staff in a country mission led to substantial increases in aid allocation. We draw on key informant interviews to explore mechanisms underlying this effect. Interviews highlight the close relationships between country‐level aid allocation and two country office capacities which better staffing tended to increase: (1) understanding of the USAID budget process and (2) ability to move through time‐consuming procedures related to funding commitment and disbursement. The findings have important implications for debates regarding the allocation of development assistance as well as broader discussions on bureaucratic politics in US foreign policy.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145801023","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}

引用次数: 0

How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe 在欧洲，儿童保育的公共投资如何减轻生育对不同技能水平的就业转变的影响

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70116

Ilze Plavgo

{"title":"How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe","authors":"Ilze Plavgo","doi":"10.1111/rego.70116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70116","url":null,"abstract":"Public investments in childcare generally improve parents' employment chances, yet evidence on their magnitude, cross‐national variation, and social distribution remains mixed. This study examines how public spending on early childhood education and care (ECEC) moderates post‐childbirth employment attachment across Europe. Using longitudinal EU‐SILC microdata for 26 countries (2003–2020) combined with social policy indicators, multilevel mixed‐effects models trace within‐person employment changes before and 2 years after childbirth by gender, skill level, and country context. Results show that childbirth substantially reduces women's employment probabilities, but higher public ECEC investment mitigates this decline by supporting re‐entry into employment. At above‐average spending levels, employment returns to pre‐childbirth levels within 2 years, whereas recovery remains limited where ECEC investments are lower. The pattern holds across skill groups and welfare regimes, except in the Nordic countries, where low‐skilled mothers benefit more. Findings underscore the role of ECEC investment in sustaining labor force participation in Europe.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"173 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145801029","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}

引用次数: 0

Are Rule Violating Corporations Specialist or Generalist Perpetrators? A Quantitative Exploration Based on Regulatory Inspection Data 违反规则的公司是专业犯罪者还是通才犯罪者？基于监管检验数据的定量探索

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-20 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70112

Marieke H. A. Kluin, Arjan A. J. Blokland, Wim Huisman

{"title":"Are Rule Violating Corporations Specialist or Generalist Perpetrators? A Quantitative Exploration Based on Regulatory Inspection Data","authors":"Marieke H. A. Kluin, Arjan A. J. Blokland, Wim Huisman","doi":"10.1111/rego.70112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70112","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examines diversity in corporate offending. Corporations can be diverse or rather specialized in their pattern of rule violating behavior. Offending diversity (or crime mix) constitutes an important dimension of the criminal career and different theories of offending lead to different predictions with regard to the extent of offending diversity expected. Though a bourgeoning literature has begun to view corporate offending through a criminal career lens, extant studies tend to focus on the frequency of corporate offending, rather than on corporate crime mix. Here, we examine corporate crime mix using regulatory inspection data on 567 Dutch corporations subject to the Seveso‐III Directive pertaining to occupational safety, external safety and disaster control for companies handling large amounts of hazardous materials. Seveso corporations show high levels of offending diversity. Latent class analysis reveals three distinct patterns of corporate offending driven by the frequency of inspection and offending, rather than by clustering of offenses within corporate criminal careers. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145785834","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}

引用次数: 0

Greenwashing and Trust via Enhanced Self‐Regulation: The Case of ESG Rating Providers in Sustainable Finance 通过加强自我监管来洗绿和信任：可持续金融中ESG评级机构的案例

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-19 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70114

Agnieszka Smoleńska, David Levi‐Faur

{"title":"Greenwashing and Trust via Enhanced Self‐Regulation: The Case of ESG Rating Providers in Sustainable Finance","authors":"Agnieszka Smoleńska, David Levi‐Faur","doi":"10.1111/rego.70114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70114","url":null,"abstract":"Polycentric governance is a trust‐intensive and trust‐dependent governance that should actively seek to build and restore trust. The different ways in which this is done are poorly understood. Our study of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategies and the green transition clarifies the role of enhanced self‐regulation and intermediaries in trust‐building and trust‐repair in polycentric governance. ESG rating providers as intermediaries may help to build and repair trust, but as with any trustee, they represent a trust challenge as well. This article addresses these issues and is organized around three major questions: First, what are the political dynamics around the adoption of the rules for ESG ratings providers in the EU and United Kingdom? Second, what are the differences between the trust‐building and the trust‐repair strategies deployed? Third, how do these differences reflect the different approaches to the trust challenges of regulation by and of intermediaries? We apply process tracing and a comparative analysis of the regulation of ESG rating providers to generate insights into the trust‐building and trust‐repair strategies of rule‐makers. Our analysis leads us to identify varieties of enhanced self‐regulation that are differentiated by the regulatory strategies adopted by the rule‐makers vis‐à‐vis regulatory intermediaries. We show how such efforts may combine different elements of mandatory and voluntary regulation, and we shed light on the differentiated conceptualizations and complexities of the function of trust in polycentric governance regimes as a whole.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145785989","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}

引用次数: 0

Trust, Crisis, and Delegation: A Comparative Analysis of Public Health Authorities During the COVID ‐19 Pandemic 信任、危机和授权：COVID - 19大流行期间公共卫生当局的比较分析

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-17 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70115

Jana Gómez Díaz

引用次数: 0

Power Unleashed: Theorizing a Weak Ecology of Checks and Balances and Its Consequences. A Case From the Global South 《释放的权力：将制衡的弱生态理论化及其后果》来自全球南方的一个案例

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70105

Oliver Meza, Elizabeth Pérez‐Chiqués, Aldo Martínez‐Hernandez

{"title":"Power Unleashed: Theorizing a Weak Ecology of Checks and Balances and Its Consequences. A Case From the Global South","authors":"Oliver Meza, Elizabeth Pérez‐Chiqués, Aldo Martínez‐Hernandez","doi":"10.1111/rego.70105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70105","url":null,"abstract":"This article theorizes about weak checks and balances (C&B) and its plausible consequences. Drawing on empirical data from over 1100 municipal officials in Mexico, the study examines how executive dominance over three key institutions—the local council, internal comptroller offices, and human resources offices—facilitates consequences associated with abuse of power and a demise in democratic regimes. We use the case of systemic corruption in local governments to propose how C&B erosion undermines institutional autonomy and capacity, thereby fostering conditions in which corruption becomes normalized and self‐sustaining. By offering theoretical propositions supported by extensive survey data, the article illustrates how C&B mechanisms are systematically undermined. These findings have broader implications for understanding the global drift toward illiberal governance and the challenges to revert the situation. The study contributes to global debates on democratic backsliding by highlighting how subnational dynamics reflect broader patterns of authoritarian power consolidation.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145759708","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}

引用次数: 0

Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems 管制自主武器系统：寻找非洲解决区域和全球问题的办法

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70111

Ezenwa E. Olumba, Samuel Oyewole, Christopher Isike, Tony Onazi Oche

{"title":"Regulating Autonomous Weapon Systems: Searching for African Solutions to Regional and Global Problems","authors":"Ezenwa E. Olumba, Samuel Oyewole, Christopher Isike, Tony Onazi Oche","doi":"10.1111/rego.70111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70111","url":null,"abstract":"Lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), while offering strategic advantages in warfare, pose significant ethical, legal, and security risks, especially for countries in the Global South. This article examines how a philosophical perspective, rooted in African ethical and political thought, can enrich regional and global debates on regulating LAWS, which remain dominated by Eurocentric assumptions. The findings of this study, which draw from secondary data, suggest that existing international and regional safeguards are insufficient to address the risks posed by LAWS. It proposes a dual‐theoretical approach informed by technological determinism and grounded in ubuntu . This approach centres on collective human accountability and reinforces the imperative of meaningful human control in the design, deployment, and governance of LAWS to safeguard the security and sovereignty of affected states and communities. This article lays the groundwork for African‐led regulatory mechanisms for emerging military technologies and offers an Afrocentric perspective on rethinking the global governance of LAWS.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145664919","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}

引用次数: 0

Governance Structures, Political Change and Executive Turnover in State‐Owned Enterprises: Evidence From Chile 国有企业的治理结构、政治变革和高管更替：来自智利的证据

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70113

Pablo Torres

引用次数: 0