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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

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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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

Unpacking the "institutional portfolio" theoretical elements for an analysis of institutional change through objectification of resources and habitus [PDF]

The "social kill" (Fligstein, 1997 and 2001) attributed to social entrepreneurs is ont sufficiently explicit as regards their dispositions for engaging in actions of change. After placing the status of change in the context of institutionalist literature,
Viale, Thierry
core  

Solidarity in Welfare States During and After the Global Pandemic: A Theoretical Investigation

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Welfare state policies are based on cultural ideals of solidarity; however, the extent of solidarity provided by welfare state institutions has varied substantially, both historically and across nations and policy fields. This article aims to answer the following questions: How did solidarity as an institutional norm in welfare states change ...
Birgit Pfau‐Effinger, Patricia Frericks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Japan's social care reforms of the early 1970s led to a generous elderly care system but only modest and narrowly targeted support for children. Although child allowances and free medical care for the elderly were introduced almost simultaneously, they followed sharply divergent paths.
Ryotaro Takahashi
wiley   +1 more source

The Song Remains the Same: The Evolution of Australian HRM and the Role of Economic and Institutional Change

Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Volume 64, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT There have been growing calls by scholars for the re‐contextualisation of human resource management (HRM) research to promote greater theoretical understanding and practical relevance. Within this approach, we argue that there is an important role for historical context, macro‐economic policy and industrial relations as an influence on ...
Peter Holland, Justine Ferrer, Timothy Bartram   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

New Institutionalism and Ethical-Cultural Analysis of Administrative Corruption in Iran [PDF]

International Journal of Ethics and Society
Introduction: Administrative corruption is a global problem and the biggest obstacle to reform in any country and the biggest obstacle to progress. Corruption is the violation of existing laws to secure personal interests and profits, and it is often ...
Behrooz Rezaee Manesh, Hosein Aslipour, Hadi Khanmohammadi, Pouya Poormoghadasian   +3 more
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The Supply Chain of Economic Ideas: Institutional Discourse and Policy Change in U.S. Economic Governance, 1945–2024

Governance, Volume 39, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the supply chain of economic ideas framework to address how institutional networks coordinate to achieve both stability and change in economic policymaking, arguing that both are products of the same institutional processes with coherence emerging through differentiation rather than convergence. A quantitative text analysis
James D. G. Wood, Valentina Ausserladscheider   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resolving responsibility gaps for lethal autonomous weapon systems. [PDF]

Front Big Data, 2022
Smith PT.
europepmc   +1 more source