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Informal governance and transnational access in world politics 世界政治中的非正式治理和跨国准入

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12636

Theresa Squatrito, Thomas Sommerer

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Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock-ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero 地缘经济困境下的去碳化？能源冲击、碳锁定和德国实现净零排放的途径

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12634

Milan Babić, Daniel Mertens

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Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway? 规范、制度和不确定性的数字面纱--网络协议到底需不需要信任？

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12628

Eric Alston

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Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance-based financing in theory and practice 管理欧洲联盟的恢复和复原机制：国家自主权和基于绩效的理论与实践筹资

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12619

Jonathan Zeitlin, David Bokhorst, Edgars Eihmanis

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Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy 解决毒素问题：工业污染物案例研究及对气候政策的影响

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-09-10 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12626

Tim Bartley, Malcolm Fairbrother

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Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states 美国各州的程序限制和监管僵化

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12627

Jason Webb Yackee, Susan Webb Yackee

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Digitalization and the green transition: Different challenges, same policy responses? 数字化与绿色转型：不同的挑战，相同的对策？

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12624

Marius R. Busemeyer, Sophia Stutzmann, Tobias Tober

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To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech 沙盒还是不沙盒？监管机构应对金融科技的不同策略

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12630

Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse, Vytautas Kuokštis, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Vytenis Cipinys, Matti Ylönen

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Self‐enforcing path dependent trajectories? A comparison of the implementation of the EU energy packages in Germany and the Netherlands 自我强化的路径依赖轨迹？欧盟能源一揽子计划在德国和荷兰的实施情况比较

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12617

Simon Fink, Eva Ruffing, Luisa Maschlanka, Hermann Lüken genannt Klaßen

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From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy 从文化问题到分配问题：作为比较政治经济学新领域的公共气候行动

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1111/rego.12620

Hanna Schwander, Jonas Fischer

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