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

open access: yesRegulation &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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesRegulation &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

A street view of groundwater policymaking and management in Azraq, Jordan

open access: yesWater Alternatives
Groundwater management is a complex task that includes a multitude of actors. It is even more complicated in water scarce countries with less well-established formal water governance structures.
Hoor Al-Amin   +2 more
doaj  

The Criminology of Regulation

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The field of regulation and governance has strong roots in criminological research. Foundational ideas about regulatory enforcement styles, root causes of compliance, and nongovernmental approaches to regulation and its enforcement have originated in criminological research.
Sally S. Simpson, Benjamin van Rooij
wiley   +1 more source

Virtues of Regulatory Criminology

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This special issue demonstrates that regulatory studies and criminology both have virtue. Regulatory criminology has neglected virtues that exceed the sum of its parts. The editors did a splendid job of pointing out in their introduction that criminology created a number of theoretical traditions that have had moments of passing value and ...
John Braithwaite, Valerie Braithwaite
wiley   +1 more source

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