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The Rise of Midocracy: How NPM and Post‐NPM Reform Ideas Recombine in Contemporary Public Organizations

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces and conceptualizes midocracy as an emergent organizational form in the public sector, characterized by the growth and dominance of a professionalized administrative middle layer. The study argues that midocracy draws on elements associated with both New Public Management (NPM) and post‐NPM reform agendas.
Gustaf Kastberg Weichselberger   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Putting Democratic Theory and Principles of Justice in the Right Place: Ethical Pluralism in Collaborative and Participatory Governance

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory and collaborative governance (P&CG) is widely celebrated as an institutional vehicle for democratizing public decision‐making by inviting affected stakeholders into inclusive and deliberative policy processes. This essay argues that underlying appeals to democratic legitimacy in P&CG are tacit commitments to specific (and often ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea
wiley   +1 more source

How Can Law Be Robust in the Face of Heightened Societal Turbulence?

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Taking its cue from the growing frequency of disruptive crises, new research argues that crisis‐induced turbulence calls for robust governance based on adaptation and innovation. While law plays a key role in the effort of governments to govern robustly, the robustness of law has received scant regard.
Eva Sørensen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Business Participation in Regulation: A Multifocal Perspective on Management Studies

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper conceptualizes how regulation is viewed in management studies in the context of business participation in regulation and explores its implications. We theorize six lenses through which management studies understand regulation: as competitive advantages, boundaries, forums, principles, systems, and cognitive frames.
Onna Malou van den Broek   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Complexity‐Based Approach to Migration Policy Change: The Case of the German Residence Act

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper adapts and applies existing indicators to measure the complexity of German migration policy over time. Building on recent scholarship that conceptualizes migration policy as multidimensional, I adapt a measurement strategy from the EUPLEX Project to capture three key components of regulatory complexity: structural, linguistic, and ...
Pau Palop‐García
wiley   +1 more source

Certainty, Severity, or Celerity? A Mixed‐Effects Analysis of Corruption and Deterrence in the European Union

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deterrence theory underpins numerous anti‐corruption interventions. Yet, empirical evidence on its application to corruption remains limited. Existing studies rely mainly on laboratory experiments and focus on certainty and severity of punishment, leaving the role of celerity unexplored.
Eran Itskovich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Coexistence: Transnational Private Governance and Public Regulatory Reform in Global Value Chains

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a transnational coalition of NGOs, unions, and labor rights organizations drove both private and public regulation on gender‐based violence and harassment in Lesotho's garment sector, and how the resulting regulatory systems coexist despite ongoing tension between them.
Pauline Jerrentrup, Jade Kosché
wiley   +1 more source

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