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Marketization in Public Purchasing as a Route to Business Corporations' Institutional Power: The Case of Outsourcing Social Services in Israel

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the set of formal (and informal) rules that govern how states purchase public services.
Reut Marciano, Shir Gal
wiley   +1 more source

Resource Substitution: Local Governments' Issue Attention and Policy Reinvention

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on policy reinvention, where a government modifies rather than replicates policy innovations introduced by other governments, has progressed significantly, but how it is influenced by the government's issue attention has not been thoroughly examined.
Yingxin Zhang, Yixue Yao, Kaifeng Yang
wiley   +1 more source

The Governance of the European Digital Identity Framework Through the Lens of Institutional Mimesis

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Commission's decision to expand its 2014 Regulation on electronic identification and trust services toward wallet‐based digital identities marked a significant shift in the governance of users' digital identities. The intersection between private digital services, public prerogatives, and individual self‐determination raises ...
Linda Weigl, Marta Reysner
wiley   +1 more source

Some Properties of the Plaquette Random-Cluster Model. [PDF]

open access: yesMath Phys Anal Geom
Duncan P, Schweinhart B.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Construction of Compliance with the European Union Deforestation Regulation in Global Coffee Value Chains

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union's Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) obliges the importers and users of seven agricultural commodities to achieve supply chain traceability and prevent deforestation‐linked products from entering the EU market. This paper investigates how companies and producing countries in the coffee sector prepared for EUDR compliance by ...
Janina Grabs
wiley   +1 more source

Trusting the Gatekeeper: Why and When Do we Trust State Audit Institutions?

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We reveal the sources of public trust in state audit institutions as a major gatekeeper of good governance. Based on rationales developed in trust research and democratic theory, we test our hypotheses using a survey distributed to Israeli citizens.
Dana Natan‐Krup   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Network design for bypass roads using interval valued fuzzy outerplanar graphs. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Jaisankar D   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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