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Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though often framed as a technocratic tool, impact assessment is a core element of the political agenda‐setting process. In this article, we show that decisions about what is subject to legislative debate are made during impact assessment; specifically, during the drafting of the assessment report.
Eleanor Brooks, Kathrin Lauber
wiley   +1 more source

Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Trustable environments are highly appreciated for regulatory performance, but difficult to emerge. A condition for making trust work is to accept vulnerability, and this holds both for stakeholders and agencies in public governance. Trust‐related vulnerability can be understood as a dynamic perception of potential harm derived from entering ...
Jacint Jordana, Juan Carlos Triviño‐Salazar   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design‐Based Politicization in Non‐Majoritarian Institutions: The Case of the European Commission's Regulatory Scrutiny Board

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Non‐majoritarian institutions are designed to depoliticize policymaking and enhance the credibility of regulatory decisions. Yet many such bodies have become sites of contestation, exposing the limits of technocratic insulation. While research highlights external and behavioral drivers of politicization, the role of institutional design ...
Brigitte Pircher
wiley   +1 more source

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

Regulation &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, Shlomo Mizrahi, Eran Vigoda‐Gadot   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation of Public Complaints to the Ombudsman Regarding Road Infrastructure

Jurnal USM Law Review
This research aims to examine the function, role and authority of the Ombudsman representative of Lampung The province accepts public complaints under the Ombudsman Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 37 of 2008.
Anisa Wijayanti, Ardhita Al Meida Putri
doaj   +1 more source

A Thin Blue Democratic Line? Organization, Interest, and Ethical Compatibility as Foundations of External Accountability Credibility

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of rising authoritarian and populist political movements, scholars have increasingly identified external agency as a bulwark for liberal values. However, its capacity to protect such values may be contingent upon its acceptance within the profession—specifically, upon attitudes we conceptualize as “accountability credibility ...
Sebastian Roché, Jacques de Maillard, Julien Noble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doing Business in Zones of Legal Risk: Patterns of Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes Since World War II

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
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 ...
Susanne Karstedt, Wim Huisman, Annika van Baar, Rebecca Endtricht, Lorena Rivas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Romanian Ombudsman and It's Interraction with the Courts- An Exploratory Research

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2010
The article focuses on the institution of the Ombudsman and its relations with other institutions/ powers of the state. The least explored interaction, at least in the Romanian literature, is the interaction between the Ombudsman and the courts (both the
Dacian DRAGOŞ, Bogdana NEAMŢU, Dan BALICA   +2 more
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Ombudsman in Malaysia: Ombudsman in Sarawak and Ombudsman for Financial Services (OFS) in Kuala Lumpur

Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal
This research focuses on the ombudsman in Malaysia and its importance in strengthening good governance in civil state service. Public complaints towards maladministration and abuse of power of the government administrators or authorities have always been an issue that must be resolved in order to ensure that the government authorities are performing ...
Izyan Farhana Zulkarnain, Siti Suraya Abd Razak, Wan Fatimah Hanun Wan Mohamad Saferdin, Ummi Farhani Firdaus   +3 more
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Smiling warnings and silent complicity: An autoethnographic reflection on academic bullying and mobbing

The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Volume 104, Issue 7, Page 3364-3368, July 2026.
Abstract Academic bullying and mobbing are increasingly recognized as systemic features of contemporary higher education rather than isolated interpersonal conflicts. Academic bullying refers to sustained hostile behaviour, often enacted by individuals in positions of power, aimed at undermining a colleague's dignity, credibility, or career progression.
Daniele Marchisio
wiley   +1 more source