Strategies for Public Administration Research: Insights From the Scholarship of Christopher Hood
ABSTRACT In an era of time constraints and publication pressures, scholars risk becoming entrenched in familiar approaches. Christopher Hood's public administration scholarship reminds us that excellence often arises from a broad exploration of ideas. This paper identifies three core elements of Hood's research practice. First, a deep skepticism toward
Ruth Dixon +3 more
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Decolonizing global health: Africa's pursuit of pharmaceutical sovereignty. [PDF]
Mulumba M +5 more
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Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy
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.
Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen, Erez Maggor
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Regional impacts on decarbonisation under evolving financing conditions for energy technologies. [PDF]
Frilingou N +13 more
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Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks
ABSTRACT In contrast to the “quiet” politics of the pre‐2008 period, macroeconomic policy has become “noisy”. This break raises a question: How do independent agencies designed for quiet politics react when a contentious public turns the volume up on them?
Benjamin Braun, Maximilian Düsterhöft
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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 ...
Oliver Meza +2 more
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Effectiveness of Regulatory Sandboxes in Financial Services: A Systematic Review
ABSTRACT Regulatory sandboxes have become increasingly prevalent over the past decade. In this paper we systematically review 15 peer‐reviewed studies and 5 gray literature sources (2016–2025) identified through structured searches of Scopus, Web of Science, and regulatory repositories.
Yanqing Wang, Zijian Zhou
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Supervising Your In‐Group? How Social Identification Shapes Financial Sector Regulatory Leniency
ABSTRACT Both practitioners and governance scholars recognize the importance of external oversight, especially in regulated industries like the financial sector. However, the failure of financial sector regulators and enforcement officials (supervisors) to act is often cited as a primary cause of ineffective governance.
Dennis Veltrop +2 more
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Does the European Union ‘Rule the World’? Competition Law Diffusion to Singapore and Hong Kong
ABSTRACT This article examines why Singapore and Hong Kong adopted competition law by testing four diffusion mechanisms: coercion, competition, learning, and the Brussels Effect. Using structured process tracing and extensive archival evidence, it evaluates the distinct observable implications of each mechanism.
Yannis Karagiannis
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Examining the roles, relationships and power dynamics shaping universal health system policy processes in high- and upper-middle-income countries: a scoping review. [PDF]
Mac Conghail L +3 more
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