Regulation & Governance

Papers
(The median citation count of Regulation & Governance is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities190
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries60
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust41
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets37
How Open Standards for Person‐Centered Care Become Checklists Again in Regulatory Practice: Underlying Mechanisms Explained36
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union34
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.32
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation30
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The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand27
Testing the Assumptions of History‐Dependent Approaches to Regulation: Comparing Compliant Companies With Those That Transgress24
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement21
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi19
Why data about people are so hard to govern19
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure17
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States16
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking16
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk15
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment15
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand15
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure14
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations14
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Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden14
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Consuming Ownership: Comparing Property Rights and Consumer Protection Law as Regulatory Methods of Corporate Power in the Market13
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?13
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government13
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies13
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards13
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market13
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China12
Law and Infrastructure: Reliability, Automation Transition, and Irregularities of “U‐Space”11
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech11
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change11
“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting11
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments10
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.10
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries10
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium10
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change10
Mining for Norms: International Extractivism, Chinese Business, and the Indeterminacy of Compliance in Kyrgyzstan9
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets9
The Green Economy and the Global South9
Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America9
Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across TimeBy Thomas Hale, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. 241 pp. $29.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐123812‐89
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Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden9
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice9
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds8
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward8
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy8
Decentralization, Europeanization, State Restructuring, and the Politics of Instruments Accumulation: The Case of the French Housing Sector8
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives7
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures7
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero7
Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.07
The Regulation of Third‐Party Verification Entities in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes: Lessons From China7
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance7
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda6
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain6
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐196
Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU: The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans6
Jens Arnoltz, The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden6
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies6
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance6
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Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?6
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden6
Reflective and decisive supervision: The role of participative leadership and team climate in joint decision‐making6
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations6
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors6
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries5
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Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union5
Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy5
Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN5
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation5
From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention5
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics5
Does Distributive Conflict Explain Variation in Green Stimulus Spending? Evidence From 40 Major Economies During the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid‐19 Recession5
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive5
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking5
The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe5
Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea5
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Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance5
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes5
Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action5
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–19145
Compliance in China5
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Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care5
Properties of supranational governance structures and policy diffusion: The case of mifepristone approvals4
Inducing Compliance: Shaping Audiences' Perceptions in China's Cyber Crime Enforcement4
The politics of Uber: Infrastructural power in the United States and Europe4
An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective4
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Participation Disenchants: How Online Political Participation Decreases Online Political Efficacy in China4
The politics of supply chain regulations: Towards foreign corporate accountability in the area of human rights and the environment?4
General courts, specialized courts, and the complementarity effect4
Political studies of automated governing: A bird's eye (re)view4
Europe's crisis of legitimacy: Governing by rules and ruling by numbers in the eurozone. By Vivien A.Schmidt, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. pp. 385. USD 35.99 (paperback). ISBN: 97801987970504
From de jure to de facto transparency: Analyzing the compliance gap in light of freedom of information laws4
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Corporate Governance in a Crypto‐World4
Unraveling how intermediary‐beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation3
Is the government exhausting its powers? An empirical examination of eminent domain exercises in New York City pre‐ and post‐Kelo3
Dancing With Restorative Justice: Chinese Legal Professionals and Their Motivational Postures3
Preventing construction deaths: The role of public policies3
More control–less agency slack? Principal control and the risk of agency slack in international organizations3
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Framing policies to mobilize citizens' behavior during a crisis: Examining the effects of positive and negative vaccination incentivizing policies3
How did international economic regulation survive the last period of deglobalization?3
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Re‐Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy3
Is Warmth More Persuasive? The Effects of Street‐Level Bureaucrats' Warmth and Competence on Citizens' Compliance During Pandemic Emergencies3
How to Govern the Confidence Machine?3
European administrative networks during times of crisis: Exploring the temporal development of the internal market network SOLVIT3
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Who Supports the Digitalization of Education? New Survey Evidence From Six OECD Countries3
On the Design of a European Health Union: Public Preferences, Trust, and Experience With the Covid‐19 Crisis3
Mechanisms of regulatory capture: Testing claims of industry influence in the case of Vioxx3
From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy2
Coen, David, Katsaitis, Alexander, and Vannoni, Matia (2021). Business Lobbying in the European Union. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.2
Trusting organizational law2
Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks2
Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training2
Traceability and foreign corporate accountability in mineral supply chains2
Coaxing Compliance: Ethiopian Lawyers, Chinese Companies, and the Cultivation of Respect2
Decarbonization Politics for All: Means‐Tested Social Assistance, Eco‐Social Values, and Public Support for Increased Fossil Fuel Taxes in Europe2
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with COVID‐19 regulations2
Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization of mandatory due diligence in France and Germany2
Extracting and classifying exceptional COVID‐19 measures from multilingual legal texts: The merits and limitations of automated approaches2
In the Eye of the Storm? A Quantitative Content Analysis on the Influence of Surrogate Inspectorates on Media Frames2
Editors' Introduction: Has Regulation & Governance made a difference?2
The Governor's Dilemma and Regime Complexity: Diversification and Differentiation2
Due Diligence Regulation and Sustainability Governance in Value Chains: Lessons From the South African Wine Sector2
“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories2
Is Less More? Field Evidence on the Impact of Anti‐Bribery Policies on Employee Knowledge and Corrupt Behavior2
The Limits of Interest: Moral economy and public engagement in the regulation of derivatives in the United States2
Expert network interaction in the European Medicines Agency2
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Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states2
Incorporating equity and justice concerns in regulation2
Competing Under Oath: Can Honesty Pledges Reduce Cheating in Competitive Environments?2
The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness?2
Turning Vulnerability Into Strength: How Independent Regulatory Agencies Enhance Accountability and Build Stakeholder Trust2
The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region2
Caught Between Privacy and Surveillance: Explaining the Long‐Term Stagnation of Data Protection Regulation in Liberal Democracies1
Regulating the retirement age—Lessons from Nordic pension policy approaches1
Caught in quicksand? Compliance and legitimacy challenges in using regulatory sandboxes to manage emerging technologies1
State Intervention in Vocational Education: Training for the Digital and Green Transitions1
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Mapping bureaucratic overload: Dynamics and drivers in media coverage across three European countries1
Support for behavioral nudges versus alternative policy instruments and their perceived fairness and efficacy1
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Regulating Uncertainty: The Importance of Trust and Affect in the Regulation of AI in The Netherlands1
Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway?1
Legal Brokers of Chinese Investment in Cambodia: Compliance Between Contract and Culture1
Responding to Regulatory Feedback: Financial Capacity, Revenue Expectations, and Firms' Responses to the Authority's Recommendations1
Responding to Information‐Based Regulation: A Behavioral Analysis of the UK's Food Hygiene Ratings Scheme1
Climate Politics in Latin America: The Cases of Chile and Mexico1
Regulating via Conditionality: The Instruments of the New Industrial Policy1
The governance of policy integration and policy coordination through joined‐up government: How subnational levels counteract siloism and fragmentation within Swedish migration policy1
The stealth legitimization of a controversial policy tool: Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service1
Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism?1
Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth?1
Jordan, Andrew and Gravey, Viviane (2021). Environmental policy in the EU: Actors, institutions and processes. London, UK: Routledge.1
Reputation management as an interplay of structure and agency: A strategic‐relational approach1
“Carrying the black pot”: Food safety and risk in China's reactive regulatory state1
Braithwaite, John (2022). Macrocriminology and freedom. Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press.1
Proactive State Involvement and Institutional Layering in Social Media Regulation: The Case of South Korea1
Unraveling Complex Impacts Pathways of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in Global Textile Value Chains: A European Perspective1
Taking Eco‐Social Risks Seriously: Explaining the Introduction of Compulsory Insurance for Natural Hazards1
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains: The case of aquaculture1
Financialization and an emerging “green investor state”: Examining China's use of state‐backed funds for green transition1
Regulatory overlap: A systematic quantitative literature review1
The Resilience of New Public Management. By IrvineLapsley and PeterMiller, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 400 pp. $145 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐888381‐41
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The voice of implementation: Exploring the link between street‐level integration and sectoral policy outcomes1
Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security1
Problem exposure and problem solving: The impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated sectors1
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Balancing Between Extremes: Goal Ambiguity‐Based Strategies to Contain Goal Displacement in Regulatory Enforcement Agencies1
Realizing a blockchain solution without blockchain? Blockchain, solutionism, and trust1
Noncompliance with the law as institutional maintenance at ultra‐religious schools1
Navigating the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: How Multinational Enterprises Approach Regulatory Familiarization in the Chocolate Sector1
Performing central bank independence: The Bank of England's communicative financial stability strategy1
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