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Steering the Green Transition in the European Union? Analysis of the European Commission's Strategic Communication

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the strategic communication of the European Commission about developing a regulatory approach and financial instruments to foster the greening of the European economy over a period of 14 years (2009–2023). We investigate in‐depth the strategic communication of three European Commission Colleges led by Barroso, Juncker, and ...
Susanne Reither, Elissaveta Radulova, Aneta Spendzharova   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)establishing Institutions as Tradition. A fieldwork-based analysis of Obște commons management institutions

Martor, 2017
The Obște is the entity which manages the commons held by the villagers or by lineage groups in a communal form of property in the historical regions known as Walachia and Moldavia.
David Diaconu
doaj  

Chain Reactions: How Businesses Plan to Respond to the EU Deforestation Regulation in Brazil, the Congo Basin, and Europe

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2023 European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐free Products (EUDR) is a transnational regulation aimed at addressing forest loss along the value chains of forest‐risk commodities. Grounding our analysis in new institutional theory with distinct behavioral drivers explaining actor behavior, and using qualitative methods, we draw on the ...
Mathias Cramm, Rafaella Ferraz Ziegert, Laila Berning, Hassina Uwiringiyimana, Dario Schulz, Abubakar Shidiki, Herman Zanguim, Sven Wunder, Jan Börner, Claudia Azevedo‐Ramos, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Metodi Sotirov   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Legitimacy Trap: How Regulators' Credibility‐Building Constrains Responsiveness Under Politicization

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops an analytical framework for understanding regulators' struggles for legitimacy, highlighting tensions between two key sources: credibility and responsiveness. A regulator must earn credibility with actors around the regulatory arena, but organizational tools for credibility‐building, including codified rules and mobilized
Takuya Onoda
wiley   +1 more source

Integrity for English Eyes Only? Evidence of Means‐Ends Decoupling in Brazilian Corporate Compliance

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates whether the consolidation of corporate compliance in Brazil after Law No. 12.846/2013 resulted in substantial gains in effectiveness or reinforced predominantly symbolic compliance patterns. The research uses administrative data from the National Registry of Substantiated Complaints between 2009 and 2024 and applies a ...
Marco Antonio Portugal
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of the Black Lives Matter Movement on the Missions and Activities of Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, 2011–2023

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What motivates US‐based environmental nongovernmental organizations (ENGOs) to incorporate social justice (SJ) into their missions and activities? How does this integration occur? ENGOs could integrate SJ issues that speak directly to their environmental mission or address non‐environmental topics, such as police reform.
Elizabeth Echavarría, Joannie Tremblay‐Boire, Nives Dolšak, Aseem Prakash   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Organized Crime as a Stakeholder: A Risk‐Based and Responsive Governance Perspective

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Organized crime (OC) can influence firms through coercion, collusion, financial ties, and supply‐chain relationships, yet these interactions remain underexamined in stakeholder theory. This article conceptualizes organized crime as an analytically relevant but non‐normatively legitimate stakeholder and develops a risk‐based framework combining
Giovanni Scirè, Enzo Bivona
wiley   +1 more source

Connections Matter: Family Centers and German Social Policy

Social Work and Society, 2018
German social policy has promoted family centers for the past decade, and in that period they have spread considerably. At first glance, this development suggests that contemporary social policy in Germany is implementing new services to support families
Onno Husen, Philipp Sandermann
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Education and Training, Institutionalism and the Social Determinants of Health: Using QCA to Explore Better and Worse Health in Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on institutionalist political economy, this paper argues that education should be conceptualised as a foundational institutional determinant of health rather than a contextual socioeconomic factor. Utilising data from Scotland, which faces some of the most profound health challenges within Europe, this paper uses Qualitative ...
Ian Greener, Kieran Laskawy
wiley   +1 more source

The Bureaucratic Paradox of Citizen Agency: Institutional Crowding‐Out in Government‐Catalyzed Co‐Production in Shanghai, China

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 4, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Public service co‐production is often framed as a means of creating public value, yet its dynamics are complex when citizen‐led participation is catalyzed by strong public institutions. This mixed‐methods study examines government‐catalyzed, citizen‐centric co‐production in Shanghai, China, where the state provides institutional support ...
Huanming Wang, Xiaoyun Sun, Bing Ran
wiley   +1 more source