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Motivating Financial Companies Towards Compliance: The Effects of a Cooperative and Deterrent Regulatory Style in a Letter Experiment 激励金融公司合规：书信实验中合作与威慑监管风格的效果

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-06-03 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70172

Sarwesh R. Ishwardat, Elianne F. van Steenbergen, Tessa Coffeng, Naomi Ellemers

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The Criminology of Regulation 管制的犯罪学

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-06-01 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70171

Sally S. Simpson, Benjamin van Rooij

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What Candidates Benefit From Corruption? Opportunities for Corruption and the Prevalence of Candidates With Business Ties 哪些候选人从腐败中受益？腐败的机会和有商业关系的候选人的盛行

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-05-29 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70170

Saverio Di Giorno, Monika Bauhr, Francesco Busato

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Transparency or Access? E‐Procurement's Two Paths to Integrity: Evidence From Italy 透明还是开放？电子采购的两条诚信之路：来自意大利的证据

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-05-15 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70167

Giuseppe Lucio Gaeta, Anna Malandrino, Fabrizio Di Mascio

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Regulation and Trust: Systematizing a Complex Relationship 监管与信任：复杂关系的系统化

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-05-14 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70161

Bernardo Rangoni, David Levi‐Faur, Koen Verhoest

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“Hitting the Target, but Missing the Point” in Regulatory Impact Assessments: Does Bureaucratization Lead to Better RIAs ? 在监管影响评估中“达到目标，但失去重点”：官僚化会导致更好的ria吗？

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-05-12 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70166

Alketa Peci, Leonardo Henrique Lima de Pilla, Flavio Saab, Luna Bouzada Flores Viana, Sergio Alonso Trigo

{"title":"“Hitting the Target, but Missing the Point” in Regulatory Impact Assessments: Does Bureaucratization Lead to Better RIAs ?","authors":"Alketa Peci, Leonardo Henrique Lima de Pilla, Flavio Saab, Luna Bouzada Flores Viana, Sergio Alonso Trigo","doi":"10.1111/rego.70166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70166","url":null,"abstract":"The extent to which Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIAs) conform to the “ideal” rational decision‐making model depends on factors such as political appropriation and the capacity of regulatory bodies. However, despite RIAs being embedded in bureaucratic settings, little research examines how the degree of formalization of RIA implementation affects their quality. In many contexts, RIAs are implemented within decision‐making environments characterized by bureaucratization, where discretion is constrained by legalism, formal boundaries, and standardized processes. This study investigates how bureaucratization influences RIA quality and whether regulators socialized in more bureaucratized administrative cultures rely more heavily on standardized procedures than their peers, thereby affecting RIA quality. Drawing on evidence from Brazilian regulatory agencies that operate within a traditionally bureaucratized administrative system, we employ a mixed‐methods design that combines OLS regression analysis with qualitative interviews. Our findings show that lower bureaucratization, operationalized as the use of strategic guidance documents that convey essential concepts and outline decision‐making steps, is associated with higher‐quality RIAs. By contrast, higher bureaucratization, characterized by the adoption of overly standardized templates, diminishes impact assessment quality. In addition, regulatory boards composed primarily of public sector professionals tend to adopt these templates more frequently, further reinforcing lower quality RIAs. Overall, the study contributes to research on the determinants of RIA quality and demonstrates how excessive bureaucratization can displace the intended goals of policy instruments.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286693","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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The Legitimacy Trap: How Regulators' Credibility‐Building Constrains Responsiveness Under Politicization 合法性陷阱：监管机构的信誉建设如何限制政治化下的反应

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-05-12 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70160

Takuya Onoda

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Beyond Universal Cooperation: Domain‐Specific Mechanisms of Citizen Compliance Across Taxation, Health, and Environmental Regulation 超越普遍合作：公民在税收、健康和环境法规方面的特定领域机制

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70152

Michaela Assouline, Julia Elad‐Strenger, Yuval Feldman

{"title":"Beyond Universal Cooperation: Domain‐Specific Mechanisms of Citizen Compliance Across Taxation, Health, and Environmental Regulation","authors":"Michaela Assouline, Julia Elad‐Strenger, Yuval Feldman","doi":"10.1111/rego.70152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70152","url":null,"abstract":"This study challenges the assumption that cooperation mechanisms are uniform across policy domains by examining how trust and social norms influence personal commitment to cooperate (PCC) in taxation, public health, and environmental protection. Using data from 15 countries, we identify systematic differences that question universal regulatory designs. A key finding is a domain‐specific “substitution effect”: high institutional trust correlates with higher PCC in taxation but paradoxically lower PCC in public health. This suggests that in high‐trust countries, citizens may delegate health responsibility to authorities, reducing their own sense of obligation, a pattern not significant in environmental protection. These results indicate that high trust can undermine personal initiative in domains where the state is perceived as the primary provider. Consequently, effective governance requires domain‐specific strategies. For challenges like pandemics, which require both state coordination and individual action, relying solely on institutional trust may backfire. We propose a new framework for understanding these distinct motivational dynamics, demonstrating that uniform governance strategies fail to account for the complexities of citizen agency across different regulatory contexts.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286696","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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The Third Wave of Globalization in Competition Policy: Uncertainty, Fragmentation and Institutional Experimentation 竞争政策中的第三波全球化浪潮：不确定性、碎片化和制度实验

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-05-06 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70140

Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto, Arthur Sadami

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Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II 在法律风险地区做生意：二战以来企业参与暴行犯罪的模式

IF 3 2区社会学

Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2026-05-04 DOI: 10.1111/rego.70162

Susanne Karstedt, Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar, Rebecca Endtricht, Lorena Rivas

{"title":"Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II","authors":"Susanne Karstedt, Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar, Rebecca Endtricht, Lorena Rivas","doi":"10.1111/rego.70162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70162","url":null,"abstract":"Involvement of corporations in international crimes and conflict atrocities, such as crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, are neither isolated events nor uncommon. Importantly, corporate involvement in atrocity crimes is shaped by conditions in “zones of legal risk” (International Commission of Jurists), where gross human rights violations, atrocity crimes and extreme violence are pervasive. In this context, corporations become complicit in the most serious state crimes. The empirical study of 205 historical and contemporary cases across all global regions in a total of 36 countries explores patterns of involvement starting from the conceptual framework developed by the International Commission of Jurists. We identify six “risk profiles” of involvement defined by industry type, partners in such crimes, and the type of involvement and contribution to the crimes. Our results showcase the relationship between corporate characteristics and risks of involvement in serious violence for different risk profiles across space and time. Starting from a legal conceptual framework, we discuss how these results contribute to criminological theories of corporate crime, as well as to regulation theory and practice.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148286697","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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