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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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How regulations undervalue occupational fatalities128
Legalism without adversarialism?: Bureaucratic legalism and the politics of regulatory implementation in the European Union50
Why de‐judicialize? Explaining state preferences on judicialization in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body and Investor‐to‐State Dispute Settlement reforms43
Algorithmic regulation: A maturing concept for investigating regulationofandthroughalgorithms39
Bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage: A comparative study of implementation agencies in five European countries33
Thatcher, Mark and Vlanda, Tim (2021). Foreign states in domestic markets: Sovereign wealth funds and the West. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.27
Agency independence and credibility in primary bond markets27
The Political Influence of Proxy Advisors in Campaigns for Ethical Investment: Guiding the Invisible Hand23
When do people accept government paternalism? Theory and experimental evidence22
The future of the international financial system: The emergingCBDCnetwork and its impact on regulation22
How trust matters for the performance and legitimacy of regulatory regimes: The differential impact of watchful trust and good‐faith trust21
The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement21
Why data about people are so hard to govern21
Regulation from above or below: Port greening measures in the European Union and the United States20
Does personalization of officeholders undermine the legitimacy of the office? On perceptions of objectivity in legal decisionmaking19
Police Cloud: Functional modularity in China's cloud public security infrastructure18
The devil is in the detail—The need for a decolonizing turn and better environmental accountability in global supply chain regulations: A comment18
Accountability infrastructures: Pragmatic compliance inside organizations17
Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi17
Trustworthy artificial intelligence and the European Union AI act: On the conflation of trustworthiness and acceptability of risk15
How is reputation management by regulatory agencies related to their employees' reputational perception?14
The Politics of Regulatory Oversight: How Analysts Expand, Shield, or Bend Their Mandate While Reviewing Regulations14
Rethinking complementarity: The co‐evolution of public and private governance in corporate climate disclosure13
To blow the whistle in Brazil: The impact of gender and public service motivation13
Mitigating microtargeting: Political microtargeting law in Australia and New Zealand13
The European administrative space over time: Mapping the formal independence of EU agencies13
Will there be a Nordic model in the platform economy? Evasive and integrative platform strategies in Denmark and Sweden12
European artificial intelligence “trusted throughout the world”: Risk‐based regulation and the fashioning of a competitive common AI market12
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“Is Lobbying for Losers?”: Corporate Behavior and Canadian Military Procurement Contracting12
Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change12
Effective Government and Regional Technological Innovation: Evidence From 284 Cities in China12
The Development of Carbon Markets in Upper‐Middle‐Income Countries11
To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech11
Embedded supervision: China's prosecutorial public interest litigation against government11
The Nordic governments' responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic: A comparative study of variation in governance arrangements and regulatory instruments11
Regulatory intermediaries and value conflicts in policy implementation: Religious organizations and life‐and‐death policies in Belgium10
How does organizational task matter for the reputation of public agencies?10
Lehdonvirta, Vili (2022). Cloud Empires: How digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control. MA, USA: The MIT Press.10
A comparison of stakeholder engagement practices in voluntary sustainability standards10
Fossil Capital in the Caribbean: The Toxic Role of “Regulatory Havens” in Climate Change9
Still a poster child for social investment? Changing regulatory dynamics of early childhood education and care in Denmark and Sweden9
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Regulation and development: Theoretical contributions and empirical lessons from Latin America8
The Green Economy and the Global South8
Process effects of multistakeholder institutions: Theory and evidence from the Open Government Partnership8
Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward8
The UN Sustainable Development Goals as a North Star: How an intermediary network makes, takes, and retrofits the meaning of the Sustainable Development Goals8
Opportunistic legislation under a natural emergency: Grabbing government power in a democracy during COVID‐197
Epistemic contestation and interagency conflict: The challenge of regulating investment funds7
Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy7
Reflective and decisive supervision: The role of participative leadership and team climate in joint decision‐making7
Business, power, and private regulatory governance: Shaping subjectivities and limiting possibilities in the gold supply chain7
Between technocracy and politics: How financial stability committees shape precautionary interventions in real estate markets7
Regulating ethics in financial services: Engaging industry to achieve regulatory objectives7
When private governance impedes multilateralism: The case of international pesticide governance7
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice7
Does the Background of the Regulator Matter? The Role of Expertise and Diversity on the Perceived Competence of Regulatory Bodies7
The embedded flexibility of Nordic labor market models under pressure from EU‐induced dualization—The case of posted work in Denmark and Sweden7
Understanding Literal Compliance in the European Union's Multilevel Fiscal Governance7
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From international law to subnational practices: How intermediaries translate the Istanbul Convention6
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Understanding regulation using the Institutional Grammar 2.06
From Hierarchical Capitalism to Developmental Governance: The Emergence of Concerted Skills Formation in Middle‐Income Countries6
Guardians and Spenders in the Budgetary Process: More Than One Type of Relations6
Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero6
Multidimensional preference for technology risk regulation: The role of political beliefs, technology attitudes, and national innovation cultures6
Global contagion risk and IMF credit cycles: Emergency exits and revolving doors6
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
The growth of policies, rules, and regulations: A review of the literature and research agenda6
Is That a Threat? How Types of Stakeholder and Reputational Threat Matter for Gaining Influence in Regulatory Rulemaking5
Polarization and Voluntary Compliance: The Impact of Ideological Extremity on the Effectiveness of Self‐Regulation5
Involving citizens in regulation: A comparative qualitative study of four experimentalist cases of participatory regulation in Dutch health care5
Impact Assessment as Agenda‐Setting: Procedural Politicking and the Mobilization of Bias in the European Union's Audiovisual Media Services Directive5
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Assuring Social Distancing Through Regulatory Intermediaries: The Role of Local Facilities in Deterring COVID‐19 in South Korea5
Building anti‐corruption agency collaboration and reputation: Hanging together or separately hanged5
The Board of Trade and the regulatory state in the long 19th century, 1815–19145
Is regulatory innovation fit for purpose? A case study of adaptive regulation for advanced biotherapeutics5
Regulatory agencies, reputational threats, and communicative responses5
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Institutional sources of legitimacy in multistakeholder global governance at ICANN4
Corporate Governance in a Crypto‐World4
Participation Disenchants: How Online Political Participation Decreases Online Political Efficacy in China4
Political studies of automated governing: A bird's eye (re)view4
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An integrated approach to corporate due diligence from a human rights, environmental, and TWAIL perspective4
The politics of Uber: Infrastructural power in the United States and Europe4
Brandeis in Brussels? Bureaucratic discretion, social learning, and the development of regulated competition in the European Union4
Indirect moral governance in prostitution policy: How regulators incorporate stigmatized actors in intermediation processes4
From de jure to de facto transparency: Analyzing the compliance gap in light of freedom of information laws4
Properties of supranational governance structures and policy diffusion: The case of mifepristone approvals4
Is the government exhausting its powers? An empirical examination of eminent domain exercises in New York City pre‐ and post‐Kelo4
Well‐Being Economy in the Visegrad Countries: Lessons for Degrowth‐Oriented Industrial Policy4
Taming the real estate boom in the EU: Pathways to macroprudential (in)action4
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Inducing Compliance: Shaping Audiences' Perceptions in China's Cyber Crime Enforcement4
The politics of supply chain regulations: Towards foreign corporate accountability in the area of human rights and the environment?4
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
General courts, specialized courts, and the complementarity effect4
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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Unraveling how intermediary‐beneficiary interaction shapes policy implementation3
European administrative networks during times of crisis: Exploring the temporal development of the internal market network SOLVIT3
Mechanisms of regulatory capture: Testing claims of industry influence in the case of Vioxx3
Magnetic law: Designing environmental enforcement laws to encourage us to go further3
How did international economic regulation survive the last period of deglobalization?3
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Tussle for space: The politics of mock‐compliance with global financial standards in developing countries3
How to Govern the Confidence Machine?3
Framing policies to mobilize citizens' behavior during a crisis: Examining the effects of positive and negative vaccination incentivizing policies3
Is Warmth More Persuasive? The Effects of Street‐Level Bureaucrats' Warmth and Competence on Citizens' Compliance During Pandemic Emergencies3
Beyond opportunism: Intermediary loyalty in regulation and governance2
The Limits of Interest: Moral economy and public engagement in the regulation of derivatives in the United States2
Emotions, crisis, and institutions: Explaining compliance with COVID‐19 regulations2
What drives compliance withCOVID‐19 measures over time? Explaining changing impacts with Goal Framing Theory2
Foreign corporate accountability: The contested institutionalization of mandatory due diligence in France and Germany2
“Carrying the black pot”: Food safety and risk in China's reactive regulatory state2
Trusting organizational law2
Expert network interaction in the European Medicines Agency2
Incorporating equity and justice concerns in regulation2
Is Less More? Field Evidence on the Impact of Anti‐Bribery Policies on Employee Knowledge and Corrupt Behavior2
The difficult road to a better competition policy: How do competition authorities reforms affect antitrust effectiveness?2
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The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region2
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Extracting and classifying exceptional COVID‐19 measures from multilingual legal texts: The merits and limitations of automated approaches2
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In the Eye of the Storm? A Quantitative Content Analysis on the Influence of Surrogate Inspectorates on Media Frames2
Subterranean successes: Durable regulation and regulatory endowments2
Traceability and foreign corporate accountability in mineral supply chains2
Coaxing Compliance: Ethiopian Lawyers, Chinese Companies, and the Cultivation of Respect2
Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training2
Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks2
Realizing a blockchain solution without blockchain? Blockchain, solutionism, and trust2
Coen, David, Katsaitis, Alexander, and Vannoni, Matia (2021). Business Lobbying in the European Union. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.2
Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states2
Editors' Introduction: Has Regulation & Governance made a difference?2
From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy2
The voice of implementation: Exploring the link between street‐level integration and sectoral policy outcomes1
Digital sustainability assurance governing global value chains: The case of aquaculture1
Regulating the retirement age—Lessons from Nordic pension policy approaches1
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Performing central bank independence: The Bank of England's communicative financial stability strategy1
Support for behavioral nudges versus alternative policy instruments and their perceived fairness and efficacy1
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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
Problem exposure and problem solving: The impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated sectors1
Stay or exit: How do international nongovernmental organizations respond to institutional pressures under authoritarianism?1
Disentangling Leviathan on its home turf: Authority foundations, policy instruments, and the making of security1
Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway?1
Regulatory overlap: A systematic quantitative literature review1
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Jordan, Andrew and Gravey, Viviane (2021). Environmental policy in the EU: Actors, institutions and processes. London, UK: Routledge.1
Mapping bureaucratic overload: Dynamics and drivers in media coverage across three European countries1
Financialization and an emerging “green investor state”: Examining China's use of state‐backed funds for green transition1
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
Taxation: A Regulatory Multilevel Governance Perspective1
Reputation management as an interplay of structure and agency: A strategic‐relational approach1
Noncompliance with the law as institutional maintenance at ultra‐religious schools1
Legal Brokers of Chinese Investment in Cambodia: Compliance Between Contract and Culture1
Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth?1
Braithwaite, John (2022). Macrocriminology and freedom. Canberra, Australia: Australia National University Press.1
More Than One Agent? Authority Expansion and Delegation Dynamics in the EU1
Caught in quicksand? Compliance and legitimacy challenges in using regulatory sandboxes to manage emerging technologies1
Taking Eco‐Social Risks Seriously: Explaining the Introduction of Compulsory Insurance for Natural Hazards1
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